The Daily BlogNetwork Computing Site News and StuffWe've moved- October 27, 2002 The Daily Blog has moved to a new home: The site -- http:blog.networkcomputing.com The rss feed -- http:blog.networkcomputing.comdailyblog_rss.xmlhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0104684/2002/10/26.html#a400 The CEO Minute: Inside Snort- October 13, 2002 I've just posted an audio interview with Sourcefire's Wayne Jackson, where we discussed the benefits of building a company upon the back of open source, namely the wildly successful intrusion-detection package named Snort. As with all CEO Minute interviews, you'll need a Real Player to listen.http://radio.weblogs.com/0104684/2002/10/13.html#a399 Complete October 10th issue now online- October 13, 2002 Good Monday everyone. We've just posted our final installment of the October 10th issue, which sports one of our largest comparisons: a 14 product review of remote controladministration packages. As always, you can grab the entire contents of the new issue from our RSS feed, or you can browse for stories here. Enjoy.http://radio.weblogs.com/0104684/2002/10/13.html#a398 Stupid advertising tricks...coming to a mall near you- October 11, 2002 A quick post from our own Lori MacVittie You know, I used to use "net send" to annoy other members of the tech architecture team when we were bored. A batch file makes it nearly impossible to get anything done, which in the right environment will start a nasty rubber band war. But I never extended it to spam. The question is, how long before some ad service decides to take advantage of this In other weird news, a mall in Georgia has taken the pop-up ads and started using it in the mall....http://radio.weblogs.com/0104684/2002/10/10.html#a385 Google where you need it- October 9, 2002 I recently migrated to Apple's Mail program but found it's built-in search feature to be about as useful as a 3-day hangover. Basically, I kept trying to use it as I use Gooogle, placing phrases in quotes, separating inclusive AND key words with a comma or plus. But Mail, in it's eagerness to please ignored these logic queues. However, I have found what I think is a good solution to this problem (aside from moving back to Entourage) in the form of a small Java jar called ZoE. This free tool...http://radio.weblogs.com/0104684/2002/10/08.html#a384 IT Survey now online!- October 6, 2002 Hi folks. We have just posted the first installment of our October 10th issue. With that, we have the complete results of our Reader Survey. Based on the 2,647 responses we discovered what it's really like to work in IT today --from what it takes to elicit funding for new technologies to keeping users happy to using office politics to your advantage. We also reveal the most highly anticipated trends for 2003. As always, you can grab the entire contents of the new issue from our RSS feed, or..http://radio.weblogs.com/0104684/2002/10/05.html#a383 Performance Portal introduction and how-to- October 6, 2002 To help you get started with our newly launched Performance Portal, we've posted here a terrific primer, written by Randall Kennedy. After you've gone through his introduction, we invite you to read his tactical how-to on setting up and testing database servers with the Performance Portal. You can find it on the home page here. Also, if you have any questions for Randall, please don't hesitate to ask. Enterprise Testing on the Cheap! Getting Results with the (FREE) Network Computing...http://radio.weblogs.com/0104684/2002/10/05.html#a372 Meta tags We don't need no stinking meta tags!- October 4, 2002 I don't know about you, but one of the biggest banes of a web wonk's life is the meta tag, that strange, metaphysical entity we all seem to rely upon but never quite trust in first identifying and later finding our precious Web content. An article published this week by Danny Sullivan, the Editor of The Search Engine Report, really got me thinking about the value of meta tags. In his article, Danny calls for the dissolution of meta tags, mostly because only one search engine (Inktomi)...http://radio.weblogs.com/0104684/2002/10/03.html#a371 |