Joy BlakeJoy's InfoWorld WatchQueen's Speech sets out plan for U.K. biometric ID card- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Iggy Uncensored This is another article in relation to this previous blog post Supermarket Loyalty Cards Vs National ID Cards The new story can be found here InfoWorld Queen's Speech sets out plan for U.K. biometric ID card November 23, 2004.http://iggy.gnomeblog.com/blog/_archives/2004/11/23/189938.html Room for command line improvement- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Ted Leung on the air Michael McCracken is interested in a shell with better auto completion functionality. I use zsh because it's had super auto completion functionality for a long time. At the hackathon, someone, Ben Laurie, I think was recommending the "new" bash-completion, because it would help with all those gpg commands. The zsh autocompletion for gpg can also complete people's user id's which goes beyond what bash-completion does (today, at least). I've been impressed, though, with how...http://www.sauria.com/blog/2004/11/23#1151 Using Del.icio.us- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Rajesh Jain's Weblog Jon Udell writes about Roland Piquepaille's use. "What Roland Piquepaille is doing here, like what I'm doing here, begins with self-interested personal information management. We categorize our own items first and foremost for our own benefit, so that we can find things more easily and so that we can better understand how new items relate to our collective works. But del.icio.us is also a social system. The tagging I do is also potentially useful to you...This will enable..http://www.emergic.org/archives/2004/11/24/index.html#using_delicious 260,000 Miscounted E-Votes In Florida- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Coffeehouse at the End-Of-Days Or are the researchers themselves biased If true, it wouldn't have changed the result (thank God - whoever your candidate might have been). It does demonstrate the razor edge on which credible elections are hanging for 2008.http://www.coffeehouse-at-end-of-days.com/2004/11/260000_miscount.html GMail Security Flaw Fixed- (Found July 5, 2008 ) the unofficial gmail blog Well, you have to give Google credit. They certainly turned this one around quickly. Per my post yesterday evening: "An Israeli publication, Nana Net Life, broke the news that a simple XSS exploit can be used to gain access to your GMail account. The exploit was not explained specifically but in the most general terms, it seems that a hacker hijacks your GMail cookie when you follow a special link that has been setup to grab your cookie. Once your cookie is captured, a.http://www.aimlesswords.com/archives/20041030/gmail_security_flaw_fixed/ Jon Udell on Dragon NaturallySpeaking- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Mark Mascolino Jon Udell has always been one of my fav tech writers because he is a hacker at heart and dives right in with the technology and actually uses it. He is also actively creating new things (case in point LibraryLookup). Now he has done it again with a review of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8. What makes this review special is that he includes a screen capture movie of himself using the product (what he is now calling a screencast. This absolutely perfect for this kind of product...http://people.etango.com/~markm/archives/2004/11/21/jon_udell_on_dragon_naturallyspeaking.... Linux train keeps rolling- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Adrian Bacon's Linux Log For the first time, quarterly revenues of Linux servers have exceeded $1 billion, according to a report from IDC. While Linux sales accounted for just 9.2 percent of the $11.5 billion in servers sold in the third quarter of 2004, it is safe to say that Linux is like a hot celebrity these days. Linux servers posted their ninth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, with year-over-year revenue growth of 42.6 percent and unit shipments increasing 31.7 percent. Still...http://linux.quicksurf.com/index.php?p=965 Queen Cards- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Where's Your Brain If you happened to watch the traditional annual opening of the United Kingdom Parliament and listen to Queen Elizabeth II read what her government is planning to do you would have heard mentioned identity cards for the country. An article in InfoWorld didn't waste anytime highlighting this. Some countries are doing this to some extent, and in the current world of dangerous strangers it is a capital idea (but not new). I think a card that had biometric identifiers would be...http://wheresyourbrain.blogspot.com/2004/11/queen-cards_24.html HP into BlogSphere- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Peter Dawson HP silently dips its toes into Blogsphere!! "Over the last few weeks, a handful of developers in the company's software development group have quietly begun publishing their regular musings on such technical issues as service-oriented architectures and XML (Extensible Markup Language). Competitors have also taken notice. Schwartz's Sept. 16 comments on the "death" of HP's Unix operating system, HP-UX, elicited a Sept. 28 letter from HP's legal department calling on Sun to retract...http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2004/11/hp_into_blogsph.html Corportae Blogging- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Bert Boerland Google sees benefits in corporate blogging (Internet): "This article is so very true. Obviously seeing the benefits of corporate blogging, Google has launched a Weblog of their own for internal uses. Important notices, facts of interest, plus a whole ton of other random daily information." Are you picking this up, CTO of my company Earth to CTO! HELLO! 2005!http://willy.boerland.com/myblog/node/6060?PHPSESSID=a2f3babccecd71f93e3f570f006fd29e |