Ted Ritzer: GOV ITStrategic IT for Government(Untitled)- March 26, 2004 Top Ten Tips to Make Attacker&146;s Lives Hell. Chris McNab breaks down his top ten tips all network administrators should follow to protect their networks from opportunistic threats and make it hard for the more determined attackers to get anywhere. Chris is the author of the recently released Network Security Assessment. O'Reilly Network ONJava.comhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/25.html#a4739 Lawrence Lessig's new book- March 26, 2004 Professor Lawrence Lessig has published a new book "Freeculture". Starving student with no money Not to worry the kind doctor has released a free PDF version of the book!http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/25.html#a4738 (Untitled)- March 25, 2004 HP to Globally Launch Linux-Based PCs. Rade T. writes "Reuters UK reports that HP, the No. 1 personal computer and computer printer maker, said on Wednesday that its putting its weight behind ... Slashdothttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/24.html#a4735 (Untitled)- March 23, 2004 Switching from PHP to ZopePython. Occasionally, when working with computers, you get to experience a completely new way of thinking about problems long thought solved. Rarer still does one find a new set of solutions that are so well thought out and integrated that older approaches seem clumsy by comparison. Recently I discovered Zope, and having understood its principles I decided to abandon my years of PHP experience in pursuit of a better way. kuro5hin.orghttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/23.html#a4731 (Untitled)- March 23, 2004 Raising the Bar for Toolbars. "Dogpile Toolbar has launched its newest toolbar, which comes with an an RSS Tool for grabbing RSS and Atom-syndicated content. The Toolbar can display feeds constructed in RSS .91, .92, and 2.0 formats. The Toolbar also supports the Atom feed format." Lockergnome&146;s RSS Resource Index and Search Your Computer, RSS Feeds, and the Web With New DesktopFrom an overview article that that I've co-authored with Barbara Quint, 'Lycos has launched a free...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/23.html#a4727 (Untitled)- March 23, 2004 Power Up Internet Explorer with Three Shells. Supercharge Internet Explorer with one of three wrappers. Once you use them, you won't be able to imagine how you got along without them. O'Reilly Network ONJava.comhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/23.html#a4726 (Untitled)- March 23, 2004 Blogs and Print, Working Together. Jon Udell: Blogprint synergy: my strategies. For almost a decade I've used the Web -- and most recently my blog -- to research, develop, and enhance the articles I write for magazines. When I ran into Dan Gillmor at SXSW we discussed some of my strategies, and Dan asked me to write them up. Seems worth doing, so here goes. Much of this concerns the IT trade pub ecosystem specifically, but I think the principles will generalize. The basic pattern is simple:..http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/23.html#a4724 (Untitled)- March 23, 2004 Firefox May be Better, But Internet Explorer is Entrenched. Jon Udell says Firefox fills the IE void by being a better browser than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has stagnated since Microsoft destroyed serious competition in the browser business. I use it, too,but unfortunately it doesn't fill the void at all. Dan Gillmor's eJournalhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/22.html#a4722 (Untitled)- March 23, 2004 Novell heralds Linux in the enterprise. Salt Lake City-- With the refrain of "Novell is back," the opening keynote address here at BrainShare on Monday made one thing clear: Novell is throwing its full weight behind Linux with the aim of driving the technology into the heart of the enterprise datacenter. InfoWorld: Top Newshttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/22.html#a4721 (Untitled)- March 20, 2004 from David Fletcher's blog: The Second Superpower Ethan Zuckerman's essay, "Making Room for the Third World in the Second Superpower" is an interesting piece on the future of social networks. San Luis Province in Argentina has developed a very nice gateway onto the information highway (Autopista de la informacion). What would you expect to see for egovernment in Papua New Guinea Take a look. John Robb has a different take on The Second Superpower: "An amalgam of transnational...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/20.html#a4708 |