Starting with the easy steps. Synonym Rings and Authority Files – In part 3 of the continuing series on controlled vocabularies and faceted classification, the CV tagteam champs Karl Fast, Mike Steckel, and Fred Leise explain synonym rings and authority files and how their use can bridge the gap between natural language and complex controlled… Continue reading Starting with the easy steps

Technical Debt. Technical debt is a self-evident phenomenon that is often ignored in school and universally ignored in the trade press. This often leads to unrealistic pressures, unreasonable customers, and to bad decisions. [Mark Bernstein]

MX04 subscriptions up. MX04 subscriptions up: You might want to take a look at your portal page, if you have a DevNet Professional subscription… there's a couple of new things you might enjoy downloading…. 😉  [JD on MX]

New Distributed COM vulnerability. New Distributed COM vulnerability: If you installed the anti-Blaster patch, then today's alert advises you to install another one to guard against a slightly different attack on the same vulnerability in DCOM Remote Procedure Calls. From what I read in this article, if you instead disabled DCOM's default-on state then you should… Continue reading New Distributed COM vulnerability

Exchange 2003 Security Snippets. You've probably heard Microsoft's 'more secure by default' message on their new 2003 suite of products. How does this apply to Exchange 2003? Here's a useful list of 5 specific changes that have been made to Exchange 2003. … [MS Exchange Blog]

Boston Church Agrees to Pay $85 Million to Settle Abuse Cases. The Boston Archdiocese agreed today to pay $85 million to settle more than 500 lawsuits from people who claim Roman Catholic priests abused them. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

CNET NEWS.COM – Security firm: IE patch does not work. A patch released by Microsoft to fix a critical security vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser does not work, according to security experts. The “object type” vulnerability was discovered by eEye Digital Security around four months ago. A patch was released on Aug. 20. It… Continue reading NEWS.COM

Nelson Minar: “network address translation is the bane of P2P.”  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Borders Hits 3/4s. Borders has three-quarters of its stores hot spotted: The chain now has 420 stores (up from under 400 when the T-Mobile deal was announced last year), and plans to have them all equipped before Christmas…. [Wi-Fi Networking News]

Why does C# have ? Why doesn't it have ?. Over the past few years, we've gotten lots of suggestions and questions about the C# language, and we haven't done a very good job responding to them, for a variety of reasons. The first reason is that we haven't devoted as much time as we… Continue reading Why does C# have ? Why doesn't it have ?