swiss ban anonymous prepaid mobiles- September 22, 2003 The Swiss parliament has banned anonymous prepaid chips for mobile phones after intelligence warnings that members of al Qaeda were using them to make calls without being traced. whole article that's just typical. they ban phones but who's banning criminals to deposit large sums of money in switzerland right nobody....i guess they make much money from that.http://www.domino-it.com/C1256D5A00383E29/archive/20030922-0541%20PM!OpenDocument forget work, IM is for scheming, flirting, gossip- September 22, 2003 this article on yahoo news is going on about instant messaging being used for private purposes by employees: Flirting with colleagues, scheming against the boss and gossiping about co-workers are among the most common Instant Messenger, or IM, missives circulating around the office, according to a new survey on Monday. but isn't that what people said about the telephone, email & internet access too and so what aren't we private persons when we are working i think that companies should...http://www.domino-it.com/C1256D5A00383E29/archive/20030922-1200%20PM!OpenDocument ray ozzie explains how notes was the first browser- September 22, 2003 In 1993 or thereabouts, we saw the emergence of TCPIP, HTML, HTTP, Mosaic and the Web. From our perspective, all of these were simplistic emulations of a tiny subset of what we’d been doing in Notes for years. TCPIP instead of Netbeui or IPXSPX, HTML instead of CD records, HTTP instead of the Notes clientserver protocols, httpd instead of a Notes server. And we were many years ahead in other ways: embedded compound objects, security, composition of documents as opposed to just...http://www.domino-it.com/C1256D5A00383E29/archive/20030922-0913%20AM!OpenDocument xbox update shuts out linux- September 19, 2003 it has not been a very pleasant time for microsoft lately. especially in the security area microsofts operating systems have been under attack. but i didn't think that microsoft would actually resort to hacking themselves in order to stop the linux momentum. Unwanted updates The update disables the bug that allowed Linux to be installed, according to Michael Steil, one of the principal members of the Xbox Linux Project. "As soon as the Dashboard is updated, our application to disable the...http://www.domino-it.com/C1256D5A00383E29/archive/20030919-0331%20PM!OpenDocument new thinkpads- September 17, 2003 now that's what i call a nice design. why didn't someone think of this before:http://www.domino-it.com/C1256D5A00383E29/archive/20030917-0903%20AM!OpenDocument |