InfoWorld: Tape's last legs. I expect that by 2006, you'll have your pick of recordable drives and libraries capable of storing 25GB to 50GB on each side of a two-sided disc. When that kind of capacity is a reality, tape's time will have finally run out. [Tomalak's Realm]

m0n0wall. m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software). m0n0wall is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a… Continue reading m0n0wall

The universal client. The game of Web services is played by passing around XML documents. Office 2003 will be the superior technology for writing/editing (InfoPath) and analyzing (Excel) such documents, but in many cases users will be searching, viewing, tweaking, approving, and routing. It's a huge win if we can use Web standards to do… Continue reading The universal client

Structured writing, structured search. From a user's point of view, XPath query strings are pretty darned geeky. I'm hopeless with them myself unless I have examples in front of me. I find that having a list of examples available in the context of my own live data, and synchronizing it to an input box in… Continue reading Structured writing, structured search

Tap Internet releases LogiCreate App Server as Open Source. Michael Kimsal, director of Tap Internet, has a deep understanding of PHP and software design. I have discussed the design of LogiCreate with Michael before and I was impressed with the care and thought going into it. I still remember Michael struggling to decide whether to… Continue reading Tap Internet releases LogiCreate App Server as Open Source

Subscription services: Look for dialtone. A few weeks ago, the whole family went to a wedding in Boston. (Though I really, really want to, I’m going to refrain from telling that story.) We walked in the house, and I noticed the panel on the ADT alarm system was not on. Now, you’d think that if… Continue reading Subscription services: Look for dialtone

ASIS&T IA Summit 2003 Presentations. ASIS&T has posted all of the presentations from the Information Architecture “Making Connections” Summit in Portland, OR. Thanks to Gary Price, who I got to meet at SLA. [ia/ – information architecture news]

The White Smoke Appears. It's Official: 802.11g is a ratified, published IEEE standard: The waiting is over, according to a flurry of press releases from manufacturers. The IEEE formally finished its approval process for 802.11g this morning with a final vote. InfoWorld reports on the ratification, but says something about a minimum 24 Mbps requirement.… Continue reading The White Smoke Appears

Two Towers extended edition. Here's a description of some of the extra scenes that will be on the extended edition DVD of The Two Towers. I'm looking forward to this, and will probably skip the shorter release. I hated the screen version of Faramir, and am hoping that more material will justify Jackson's radical changes… Continue reading Two Towers extended edition

Big Firm to Solo – Expect to See Much More. Technology costs will pay a big role in this growing trend. [DennisKennedy.blog]