marian@kisd.deMarian Steinbachs personal blog.Setting Windows-NT-Samba passwords with PHP- September 20, 2004 For those who offer their NT users to change the password via a web form there might be good news. Windows NT2000XP (or call it Samba) passwords can be created directly from PHP using the PEAR package Crypt_Chap. If you also want to write this data to Samba flatfiles, then File_SMBPasswd comes in handy. I hope this is useful for somone except us here at KISD!http://kisd.de/~marian/?article=51&lang=en Patents are killing Software Innovation- September 3, 2004 This article, originally publish at silicon.com, makes a critical point against american software patent practice. One aspect is the general innovativeness of "inventions": Inventions are rarely as innovative as the simplistic argument for patents would suggest. They nearly always involve the application of ideas that have become widely known.http://kisd.de/~marian/?article=50&lang=en Added InfoVis Company: Tableau Software- September 1, 2004 Slashdot published a pointer to another vendor of data visualization software: Tableau Software. I added the entry to the directory of InfoVis companies.http://kisd.de/~marian/?article=49&lang=en |