The Great Anonymity Debate
I would argue that the questions that the technology world should be focused on are questions about the degrees of anonymity. If we are to have truly meaningful discussions about this subject (identity), we must become more subtle in our understanding of anonymity and privacy. #
First hackers sighted in high speed mobile phone arena
T-Mobile has installed a firewall on its GPRS network in the States after a small number of users complained of receiving hacker probes when using its high-speed mobile service.
Les avantages du réseau viennent toujours avec les désavantages... je suis surpris par contre d'apprendre que les ingénieurs de T-Mobile ait déployé un service GPRS de façon insécure. La sécurité informatique est probablement un des sujet les plus discutés mais le moins compris et celui ou les actions qui résultent de l'information sont le plus souvent mal gérées. La paranoïa ou le laissez-faire, bien qu'opposés sont les réactions que je rencontre le plus souvent, la paranoïa suivant souvent un laissez-faire qui aura eu des conséquences. Bien que les directions informatiques ne comprennent pas toujours la sécurité, les consultants en sécurité exploitent aussi la paranoïa de façon commerciale, ce qui rend un immense disservices aux compagnies... je pourrais appliquer cette constatation à plusieurs autres domaines de l'informatique, et peut-être bien qu'un jour je vais créer une compagnie pour combler ce gouffre qui se creuse entre les vendeurs de technologie et les acheteurs...
[idée de la diatribe tirée de disLEXia] #
Lu sur Marc's Voice (Marc est un des fondateur de Macromind qui est devenu Macromedia):
I had some potential investors acuse me today of wanting to build a cottage company like Userland (as they saw many similarities and aspects between our two companies.) Though I tried to tell them otherwise, they only saw the 'viral effect' we're trying to start and the guerilla marketing techniques we'll employ. But when it comes down to it - I'd rather have a "cottage' company like Userland and help establish important standards like RSS, OPML, XML-RPC and popularize blogging, then be yet another VC funded, schmuck run asshole company - which fails anyway, pisses away $10's of millions and contributes nothing to society or our industry.
Quelle belle réplique! Pourquoi devrait-on bâtir un empire de papier? La motivation première d'un entrepreneur, c'est mon cas, c'est de faire mieux, de faire soi-même. Monter une grosse machine c'est très plate, très vite. Innover et se remettre constamment en question, c'est passionnant! #
XML and Web Sites
Bon survol pimenté d'hyperliens savoureux. Couvre online tutorials, books, software and XML with databases. Mentionne aussi un nouveau site de Simon St. Laurent's, "Monastic XML" que je ne connaissais (le site) mais j'ai toujours apprécié l'approche pragmatique de cet auteur par le passé, ça mérite une visite bientôt.... #
CipherTrust wants garbage -- e-mail garbage to be exact. It wants every e-mail from Nigeria promising millions and every one of those e-mail solicitations for 'free' pornography, Viagra and adult services. The folks at CipherTrust aren't e-mail masochists. They're out to build the Dewey Decimal System of spam. They will use the detritus of offensive e-mail marketing to open an online library -- www.spamarchive.org -- that programmers and researchers can use in the never-ending fight against spam.
[via Gary Robinson's Rants] #
From x-log I found some useful stuff for advanced Radio users and Radio developers: the rFrame macro for creating inline frames and the desktop event viewer displaying almost real-time the radio event log in your desktop website (very cool) Même si je préfère Movable Type de plus en plus comme serveur de carnet, Radio Userland reste le carneticiel (logiciel de weblogging) le plus complet, c'est une plateforme en soi!
[via Curiouser and curiouser!] #
Mozilla 1.2 Released
A new version of Mozilla has been released. You can check out the list of new features. For those of you who still haven't checked out Mozilla, now is the time. Ah! et le "XML prettyprinting" est maintenant inclus, une des toutes dernières raisons qui pouvait me faire ouvrir IE à l'occasion. Avec Fash 6 pour Linux et la correction des bugs de Java pour Mac OSX, plus aucune raison de ne pas en faire un standard corparatif mondial (en fait une seule mais je vous en discute plus tard!)
[via Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes] #
Java IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions
Q: What is an Infrequently Answered Question? A question is infrequently answered either because few people know the answer or because it is about an obscure, subtle point (but a point that may be crucial to you). #
O'Reilly Network: Web Services We'd Like To See
In a recent CNET article, Margaret Kane reports on Google and Amazon's success with Web services. After Google and Amazon, probably the widest deployed and successful web service is the Blogger API. Then there's all the other Weblog systems like weblogs.com. I can't really count RSS as a web service, although with >10,000 feeds it's probably the most widely implemented XML format. Anyway. In the article, Timothy Appnel suggests a few other companies that ought to expose their core systems as publically accessible web services. eg eBay, PayPal, FedEx, UPS, MapQuest, Yahoo. I bet we can think of a few as well. How about Alexa, IMDB, MSN? Et pssst?
[via jbond's blog at voidstar.com] #
XML-RPC, a mini case study
REST seems shiny and neat to me but incomplete - I'm pulling for it because it seems warm and fuzzy to my ivory tower branes. SOAP seems to try to be nice & clean, but feels grungy and toxic to me and I've always felt a vague sense of unease when walking past its house on the block. In the middle, XML-RPC seems to be the right balance of dirt and acidity to grow things in. #
Comment un Weblog, où une personne écrit seule dans son coin, peut-elle faire partie d'un vaste réseau de connaissances, d'une communauté qui partage les mêmes centres d'intérêts ? La suite de cette excellente mise en perpective des avantages du carnet sur Radio UserLand Francophone. #
Robert McCloskey: I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. C'est cela... [via Quotes of the Day] #
Infoworld brings a special report on the evolution of P2P with lots of Groovy details.
Ce dossier est sur ma liste de lecture à court terme... je suis tout prêt de replonger dans Grovve, en simultané avec jabber... des volontaires pour une expérience d'espace collaboratif Groove en français? Ce qui est dommage c'est que Groove est windows only, du moins pour ce qui est de la riche application client, un pont vers jabber est peut-être possible. Un extrait ramassé rapidement que j'aime particulièrement: You put crypto providers at the edge of the network ... really pump up the level of encryption (...) we decided early on that the best decentralized security architecture leverages smart clients, allowing them to ride on dumb networks.
[le tout via Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] #
The rebellion will be syndicated. Tantek Celik: "XHTML vs. the world." Bet on the world. [sur dive into mark] #
Ideas for marketing an intranet
D'excellents conseils qui sont surtout reliés... au facteur humain. [via Column Two] #
Je dois terminer ma chronique pour le prochain numéro du magazine Virus, et mon rédac en chef a décidé la semaine passée de remanier le calendrier... ça me fait donc une bonne excuse pour être à la dernière minute, même si je n'en avais pas besoin, alors hop! Au boulot! On démarre Open Office Writer, et on replonge dans son outline (survol? hiérarchie d'idées?) et on écrit!!! Le pire c'est que le rédac en question lit mon carnet. Salut boss de mes mots vendus! Oui, oui, je retourne à ma chronique maintenant, promis juré que j'ai presque fini de lire le dernier thread sur Slashdot... #
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. Kahlil Gibran [via MQotD] #
Petite note, si vous naviguez avec une connection à basse vitesse, ou si vous n'avez rien à foutre du fla-fla qui entoure le texte principal de cette page, vous pouvez utiliser http://afroginthevalley.weblogs.com/?print-friendly=true et vous recevrez une version légère de cette page, sans navigation ou pied de page... c'est aussi une bonne version pour la lecture avec autre chose qu'un écran d'ordinateur (comme un téléphone cellulaire ou un palm), voilà, c'est tout pour l'annonce de ce service d'intérêt public. #
Google Monitor is a free Web promotion software designed for search engine specialists and webmasters. It allows you to find position of your web site in Google Top for popular keywords. You may keep statistics and notes. Potentiellement utile... #
The Problem With Presentations. It's the story, stupid: don't let presentation software keep you from getting your story across.À lire si vous avez à préparer et donner des conférences ou des présentations publiques... Presentations are as much about slides as poetry is about handwriting. Again, David Ogilvy: "What you say is more important than how you say it." Allez, ouste, allez lire, ou à tout le moins placer un signet (bookmark) pour y revenir plus tard! #
SharpDevelop @ic#code
#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C# and VB.NET projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is open-source (GPL), and you can download both sourcecode and executables. #
what's next?
How do i write books? I was asked this via email a couple of days ago, and rather than just post the reply via email, I thought i'd reply to my weblog instead. Non seulement la réponse (en soi) est intéressante, mais le processus l'est tout autant, il s'applique à toute question posée par courriel et qui pourrait servir à quelqu'un d'autre! #
AOL tests standalone e-mail product
"AOL Communicator" bundles instant messaging with an e-mail client that appears designed to mirror Microsoft Outlook. Gorille de 800 livres... [via Mobilog] #
phpPatterns
Another design patterns website ... this time showing examples implemented in PHP. It does do a good job of illustrating some of the more advanced features of PHP (classes, templates, etc.) [via Sanjay's Journal of Coding Tips] #
ScamAssassin: marry Snopes to a mail-filter
LazyWeb is Matt Jones's coinage that describes the process whereby one throws out an idea in the hopes that someone else will build it. Here's my LazyWeb idea; I call it "ScamAssassin." The idea is to build an email filter (maybe a SpamAssassin module?) that identifies email that contains a hoax or scam that can be found on Snopes or Purportal and pastes in a warning at the top of the message... Brilliant!!!
[sur Boing Boing Blog] #
P2P drives the darknet to success, claim MS researchers
There seem to be no technical impediments to darknet-based peer-to-peer file sharing technologies growing in convenience, aggregate bandwidth and efficiency. The legal future of darknet-technologies is less certain, but we believe that, at least for some classes of user, and possibly for the population at large, efficient darknets will exist...
[via Smart Mobs] #
Habeas
Habeas Sender Warranted Email ("SWE") is helping to eradicate the scourge of spam by creating and enforcing a system for individuals and companies to warrant that the email they are sending is not spam, and is, in fact, "the email you want". Habeas SWE enables Habeas to enforce that warranty by suing spammers that try to label spam as Sender Warranted Email(SM), and by obtaining against them enforceable injunctions and judgements from the Courts through the use of trademark and copyright law. C'est une approche qui combine technologie, loi et volonté corporative... innovateur! J'ai découvert par hasard (sur une liste de discussion) qu'un de leur employé, Neil Schwartzman (qui publie l'excellent SpamNews) travaillais à Montréal, je vais le rencontrer la semaine prochaine... #
Microsoft Just Says No to .Doc Replacement Panel
Un message syur Slashdot qui illustre bien ma postition sur le sujet: OpenOffice.org is a tremendous threat to MS Office (...) all OOo needs is for a few major corporate users of office suites to spend a fraction of the $ they send to Redmond instead on funding the final polish of OOo and the benefits of essentially zero $ cost coupled with open file formats and free-as-in-freedom will take care of the rest. If Microsoft does not see this as a real and serious threat, they are fools. (I believe they do see it as a threat, and will act accordingly) Boeing is on board, it shouldn't be too hard to get AOLTW and a few other obvious examples, and soon the dominoes will begin toppling. Microsoft cannot win the fight in the long term. They may win some battles, but they cannot win this war. Hehehe. Même pas eu besoin de l'écrire moi-même... vive l'hypertexte! Voir aussi l'article d'Infoworld sur le groupe de travail d'OASIS. #
/dev/nul
It really doesn't matter that Java is faster than .NET. In this test, it was 30% faster. In most tests it is 10-15% faster. I say "so what?" for two reasons... Allez lire la suite, c'est rempli de bonnes perspectives techniques. #
Matt Haughey: Begun this spam war has. En effet. Je suis toutes ces discussions de très près (Death by spam et les répliques qui l'entourent, les produits commerciaux, les solutions ouvertes et autres prespectives. )... c'est un débat clef de l'année et ça touche plusieurs niveaux qui me passionnent: réseautique, logiciels, identité et communications. Je me demande si je ne vais pas me créer un blog que pour cet problématique... ouais, bonne idée! [citation d'introduction via Hack the Planet] #
79 percent of companies will use Web services over next 12 months. Ok, je pense qu'il est enfin temps de passer à l'action pour ma plateforme... #
Enable/Disable Flash
If Flash ads annoy you, but you don't want to go so far as to uninstall flash, try jTFlashManager. It allows you to enable and disable the Macromedia Flash plugin without having to uninstall. The browser can't find the plugin if it has been renamed, so the the program works by simply renaming the Flash plugin back and forth when you turn Flash on or off. #
RDF Primer Primer
This document was written by Aaron to fill what he saw as a hole in RDF's documentation. It has not been looked at or approved or asked for by the Working Group. Simple et bien fait. #
TcpTrace
I got fed up with installing Java & Apache SOAP just to get tcpTunnelGUI, so here's a native Win32 version, built using Attila (no MFC :) ). It started out as a copy of the Apache tool, but has taken on a life of its own! À rajouter dans mon webdev toolkit... #
Spam Conference
Interested in spam filters? Come join us in Cambridge on January 17, 2003 at the first conference on spam filtering. While anyone will be welcome, we're hoping most of all to make this an opportunity for hackers working on spam filters to get together and compare notes. Hum, pas trop loin de Montréal, il y à des intéressés pour organiser un petit voyage en Janvier? #
Michael J. Radwin's couvre dans son carnet la Convention Apache, avec des sujets tels que: Scalable Internet Architectures, Waka: a replacement for HTTP, XML and I18N, Apache 2.0 Filters et Watching the Alpha Geeks. Pas aussi trippant que d'y être en personne mais informatif tout de même! #
Flock is an RSS aggregator written in Java, it runs on the server side, like ampheta desk... [via Patrick Chanezon's Radio Weblog] #
What is Microsoft OneNote?
Microsoft OneNote is a new program in the Microsoft Office family that enables you to capture, organize, and reuse your notes on any laptop computer, desktop computer, or Tablet PC. It gives you one place to store all your notes and the freedom to work with them how you want. Je suis curieux et j'ai hâte d'esseyer ce produit. D'ailleurs, je convoite en ce moment un Tablet PC convertible (comme celui-ci) si je peux m'arranger pour le faire dualbooter en linux et m'en servir aussi comme d'un laptop régulier... [via Web Voice] #
Québec through the eyes of... Two nice set of pictures from Montréal and Québec taken by french tourists. including shots of couple very elaborate graffitis.... [via Manual::Override] #
"J2EE / .Net" Smackdown
Oganized by the Software Development Forum, an independent organization. Sun and Microsoft were each represented by three panelists. The format is simple: ten questions have been submitted to the participants a month ago and they will answer them all in turn in five minutes. Each party has the right to three rebuttals if they feel like contesting what the other boxer, I mean, participant, just said. What follows is a summary of the questions and their answers. Whenever I feel like adding a personal remark, I will do so with a particular color. Merci du rapport Cédric, très content de pouvoir mettre la main sur une version écrite et commentée! #
Macromedia Contribute, premières impressions.
J'ai testé pendant environ une heure ce matin... Impressionnant. Très bien fait, du travail de pro, je ne m'attendais pas à moins de la part de MM.
Intéressant fichier contribute.xml qui contient l'information du site est créé sur le serveur dans un répetoire "_mm". Pas mal plus ouvert que frontpage comme mécanisme (par contre par défaut il est accessible publiquement, mais les informations sensibles sont encodées, reste à savoir comment). Je n'ai pas testé l'intégration avec les templates de Dreamweaver mais ça semble tout un atout, avoir de zones éditables ou non faciles à configurer.
Autre fait à l'avantage de MM c'est que le code généré est super clean, j'ai testé sommairement sur http://www.afroginthevalley.com/15juin.html qui validait xhtml 1.0 transitionnel et après édition dans Contribute elle validait encore, tout un exploit! Le logiciel gère aussi les permissions, la création d'utilisateurs à même l'interface de contribute et sauvegarde les versions, permettant de retourner à une version ultérieure de la page en cas de pépin.
Le niveau d'encadrement pour les utilisateurs types est aussi très bon, en tout cas, après une analyse sommaire d'environ une heure, c'est prometteur. J'ai eu quelques problèmes d'accès et de performance avec mon firewall Zone Alarm et un petit bug du correcteur orthographique (en anglais pour l'instant), mais rien de majeur. #
Hex Workshop
Hex Workshop is an editor that allows you to edit, insert, delete, cut, copy, and paste hex code. It combines the power of a hex editor with the features, functions, and flexibility of a word processor. Features in Hex Workshop include goto, find, replace, and file compare functions, plus checksum calculation. Je l'ai utilisé et j'ai beaucoup aimé... facile et puissant, pour les peu de fois ou j'ai besoin d'éditer des fichiers en HEX... #
A framework for Open Source projects. I recently completed my masters thesis A Framework for Open Source Projects (1.5MB PDF). I hope it can be useful for someone. Feedback welcome. [via Advogato] #
Spam Filtering's Last Stand
Recently, a relatively new idea for filtering spam has surfaced: Bayesian classification of e-mail, or at least Bayesian-inspired analysis. This seems to have been recently been brought to the Internet community's attention by Paul Graham in his essay A Plan for Spam, though I know he's not the first to think of it: For instance, here's a programming assignment given at the University of California, Irvine's Information and Computer Science department in Dec. 1999. That the idea was not popular until recently is probably a direct consequence of the fact that since 1999, the war on e-mail spam has been victory Spammers at every turn. The need for bigger guns is now more acutely felt then in 1999. Allez lire le reste sur le site de iRights si le sujet vous intéresse, c'est un survol très complet de la question. #
J'ai encore environ 150 bookmarks de trucs que je pourrais poster ici... disons que je ne manque pas de matériel, bonne lecture et bons liens! Au sens premier: de l'hyperlien, et au second degré: les liens à tisser entre toutes ces parcelles d'information pour en faire un système cohérent de pensée technologique... Vous pouvez en effet le constater par la quantité d'hyperliens et de commentaires que je poste sur ce carnet, ma matière grise est en constante rénovation! #
SuSE Linux eMail Server 3.1
SuSE Linux eMail Server 3.1 supports all relevant Internet standards, including IMAP, LDAP, SMTP, POP3, TLS, and SASL. A special characteristic of this Open Source solution: since the number of possible users per e-mail server is unlimited, an increase in the number of users will not cause any additional costs or more administration workload (Total cost: 999$). Pas cher comparé à une license d'Exchange pour 25 utilisateurs (8200$, incluant le système d'opération, comme l'offre de SuSE)... je sais que ce n'est pas identique mais ce produit couvre 99% des besoins dans 90% des cas... et sans pénalité de croissance (license par utilisateur, ça devient très cher très vite!). #
Web Services' Idées Fortes
Many people ask us at ZapThink what's really so special about Web Services. We're the first to admit that Web Services are more evolutionary than revolutionary, building upon earlier Service-oriented technologies and approaches to distributed computing. Sure, Web Services are standards-based, using XML and XML-based protocols like SOAP to act as a common basis for communication across different vendor implementations. But open standards are really only the price of admission. The true power of Web Services lies in three related powerful ideas (idées fortes) that in combination describe how Web Services will change the fundamental nature of distributed computing: Asynchrony, Loose Coupling, Coarse Granularity. Excellent résumé des concepts techniques qui font des services web un avancement réel, c'est un avancement plutôt techno-philosophique, mais le mélange standards et ouverture est explosif... #
Fine-tuning Custom Google Search
After experimenting with a few approaches for adding a Google search box to Radio Free Blogistan (with the help of my readers), I found a satisfactory method. I'm posting the code in this story format so that I can refer to it in a blog post without actually putting the code out there and screwing up people's aggregators. C'est à la lecture de cet article que j'ai rajouté la boîte de recherche Google sur afroginthevalley.weblogs.com ... #
Some Windows 2k Tools
Un petit paragraphe assaisonné juste à point de savoureux hyperliens: That said, from time to time, I do need to tweak, clean or fix something that goes a bit wacky. Today, registry problems. If you're in the same boat, may I suggest the LabMice - Windows 2000 Utilities. If that doesn't cut it for you, or if you want to blow your foot clean-off with some nifty developer-oriented tools, perhaps the Windows 2000 Resource Kits Page will offer something of use. Then there are those other power tools I sometimes need... #
Random Hacks: Bayesian Whitelisting: Finding the Good Mail Among the Spam. Défénitivement un sujet chaud et les geeks commencent à s'y attaquer de façon créative... C'est un de mes sujets de réflexion sur le futur de la messagerie numérique, de quelle façon ces outils changent la donne (ou la rétablissent, selon l'angle). #
Review of Red Hat 8.0 on OSNews.com. Ca date un peu mais c'est une évaluation assez détaillée... en passant, je n'ai toujours pas eu le temps de migrer mon laptop à Mandrake 9, mais c'est encore dans mes projets à court terme... surtout que je passe beaucoup de mon temps dans Windows avec Mozilla et Open Office (que j'aime de plus en plus!), donc un petit dualboot avec une installation fraîche de Win2k (je n'ai jamais aimé XP, j'sais pas pourquoi) est prévu pour bientôt, avec Cygwin, UNXutils et PuTTY pour qunad je suis sous win et Wine et VNC sous Linux, la barrière entre les deux mondes est bien mince... #
RealVNC
RealVNC is the official home of VNC, staffed by the original team who created and developed it whilst at AT&T. The mission of RealVNC is to act as the focal point for open source VNC. We are continuing to improve VNC with our own new features and by evaluating features developed by others in the open source community and incorporating the best of them into the official codebase. New features and bug fixes will be released on a regular basis. In addition, we are also offering commercial support and development services around open source VNC. #
MaxMind GeoIP: Where in the world are your Internet visitors?
We offer a number of methods for accessing MaxMind GeoIP, including APIs for C, Perl, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, C#, Apache, as well as web services. Our APIs are Open Source and contain a Free database that is updated yearly. The C API contains geoipupdate, a program for our subscribers to receive updates each month. Hum, ça pourrait être utile un jour... je poste ici pour archiver dans ma catégorie "webdev toolkit"... #
eMail Headers
To handle complaints about email, it is often necessary to obtain detailed information about a particular message. This information is included in every message but isn't normally displayed to the computer operator. However, every email client can be configured to show this information. After the information is displayed, it can be cut and pasted into another email message or other document to be forwarded to the investigator. Here is how. C'est pour terminer la rédaction de ma prochaine chronique dans VirusMag... #
Setting Up a Real World Hotspot
Are you thinking about putting up your first hotspot? If so, you're probably working hard to learn the basics of the business and technology. You're reading, talking to vendors and striving to learn all you can about this exploding opportunity. Still, nothing answers questions like real world results. So it makes sense to look at an actual first time hotspot deployment.
- The Value of Planning
- Pitching the Venue
- Choosing the Technology
- Actual Deployment
- Future Plans
- Conclusions
Dan Bricklin: Tablet PC - First Impressions
So, one day in, my verdict: I can't see ever buying a portable laptop that isn't a convertible -- the benefits are too great for me. It's a Tablet PC, not a Pen PC, and not a Clamshell PC, and that's a win. While these are clearly still basically a version 1 or 2, they are still very useful. If you read a lot on a PC, and move your laptop around a lot, and have benefited from 802.11, and don't mind using early software that works but is basic (like the original VisiCalc was), and are in the market for a new laptop, take the next step and move up to a tablet.
[via Scott Loftesness] #
So, one day in, my verdict: I can't see ever buying a portable laptop that isn't a convertible -- the benefits are too great for me. It's a Tablet PC, not a Pen PC, and not a Clamshell PC, and that's a win. While these are clearly still basically a version 1 or 2, they are still very useful. If you read a lot on a PC, and move your laptop around a lot, and have benefited from 802.11, and don't mind using early software that works but is basic (like the original VisiCalc was), and are in the market for a new laptop, take the next step and move up to a tablet.
[via Scott Loftesness] #
Smart Objects
You knew something like this was coming sooner or later. At Comdex next week Microsoft is planning to unveil Smart Objects, a whole line of household items like alarm clocks, kitchen appliances, and stereo equipment that can connect to the Internet. In theory this means alarm clocks that can wake you up earlier if there's particulary bad traffic that morning... Cool, je vais devoir réinstaller le OS de mon frigo tous les 8 mois... j'espère seulement que mon four ne va pas freezer en pleine cuisson!!
[via Gizmodo] #
Making a Connection with tcpdump, Part I
How to use tcpdump and what to do with the data you collect. Maintenant que Carl-Frédéric s'est déclaré Dieu d'Unix, je me suis dis que je pourrais lui fournir quelques indications pour continuer la croissance... il reste quelques étapes encore avant d'accéder au trône de l'olympe Unixien...
;)
[À lire sur Linux Journal] #
Apache flaws: several security holes in the Apache source are being actively exploited on the Internet; upgrade to version 1.3.27 or 2.0.43 or higher. Patch your apache! [via internetnews.com: Web Developer News] #
SmartyPants for Moveable Type
If you're using Moveable Type and are interested in producing "proper" quotes, dashes and elipses , definitely have a look at John Gruber's SmartyPlants plugin. MT devient une plateforme de plus en plus, il faut que je retourve le lien de la discussion sur Joel on Software qui parle de la différence entre une application et une plate-forme (je suis offline et je n'ai pas accès à ma mémoire secondaire pour l'insant)... Update: le lien en question, merci à Dylan Foley qui me l'a envoyé par courriel.
[algorhythm] #
Communautés de pratique et gestion de savoirs
Pour les entreprises d'aujourd'hui les professionnels, les travailleurs intellectuels et les techniciens sont une ressource précieuse qui doit être "mise à jour" régulièrement. Mais cette mise à niveau ne peut être confiée simplement à des formateurs externes puisque, chacun dans leur domaine, les grandes entreprises et institutions sont non seulement producteurs de biens et services mais aussi de connaissances - celles-ci étant définies en contexte de pratiques, historiques, avec des dimensions tacites liées aux outils, aux milieux, aux clientèles... #
Jabber on Zaurus: NewsForge takes note of new Jabber chat and whiteboard software for the Sharp Zaurus. [via Jabber Software Foundation News] #
DTD pour Email
... traiter ses mails en XML. Pourquoi pas? Eugene Eric Kim a déjà travaillé sur le sujet. Il a proposé une DTD pour mail et un script perl pour traiter les données. Mais le plus intéressant est ce travail d'implémentation de la RFC 822 en RDF. Merci Karl! Dis donc XML, RDF et RFC 822 dans le même post, c'est assez pour faire ma journée de geek!
[via Karl & Cow - The Boring Weblog] #
Plusieurs services webs intéressants d'un angle messagerie sur SalCentral:
LOGIN - SMS Textual Messages - WSDL v1.1. Login to the Textuall SMS system and manage user details.#
SEND - SMS Textuall Messages - WSDL v1.1. Textuall SMS Web Services enable a personal client or business to create an addressbook of SMS message recipients and send them profiled messages.
Short Message Service (SMS) Notifications - WSDL v1.1. Sends messages to the specified SMS device number. Our service supports majority of the SMS networks around the world.
GeoPinpoint - WSDL v1.1. Translate IP addresses to city, state, country.
Tracking Tux: Linux Research Round-Up
In this debut column, Butler Group declares Linux and .NET the OS winners, picks three surviving enterprise Linux distributors and calls for industry mobilization on the next generation operating system. Gartner and Giga analysts feed the populist view of Linux as a 2003 bright spot while IDC buckles both Linux and Microsoft into the server market driver's seat. META Group, as usual, is a bit more meticulous even with macro trends. Evans Data looks East and finds dotcom-worthy forecasts. Une excellente source qui fait une synthèse des différentes positions des analystes techniques sur Linux. Je l'écris parce que c'est en français et qu'il ne pourront pas le lire, mais je payerais certainement pour ce genre de service dans un futur pas très éloigné... #
Etherscan Analyzer
Etherscan Analyzer is an advanced network traffic and protocol analyzer. You can capture and analyze all packets transmitted in your segment of the local network. It decodes all major protocols, including Ethernet, NetBEUI, TCP/IP, and TCP/IP utilities. It is capable of reconstructing TCP/IP sessions. With this feature, you can easily see data in their original format. You can easily filter the network traffic. Use these flexible, powerful filters during or after capture to isolate traffic by specific node, protocol, error type, and/or packet content. #
First full-feature HTML Visual Editor for Mozilla(?)
skyBuilders.com has announced the release of two open-source skyWriter TTW WYSIWYG editors, one for Internet Explorer 5+ based on the familiar MS Dynamic HTML Edit Component (an Active-X control), and one based on a Mozilla XUL application for Mozilla 1.1+ and other Gecko-based browsers. Enfin? Je teste le tout à l'instant...
[via cmsInfo] #
Macromedia's ContributeReviw on Hypergene
Macromedia has unveiled their latest app, Contribute — which "enables anyone to easily update, add, and publish web content to existing websites without requiring technical skills." Applications such as this extend the potential of participatory journalism to the static HTML world. We put the trial version to test this afternoon (...) and it worked amazingly well. After only a few minutes of set up, and we were editing pages on our main site. Nice. This app is a boon for web designers, allowing them to easily deploy a design for non-tech savvy clients. For the content creator, it does a great job making HTML transparent. Pourrait me permettre de régler plusieurs problèmes actuels au boulot, défénitivement à suivre... #
Developer Central
Grand Central Communications has created Developer Central, a special developers' version of it's industry leading Web services network. Developer Central is free of charge whether you are developing Web services applications or just want to learn more. À explorer. #
Yodel Bank: Anonymous Digital Cash
Yodel Bank is relatively new, but now that you can transfer money over IIP and Freenet, a real vibrant anonymous economy is springing up, and it's unclear how goverments will react to this 'private' banking...
[via le toujours excellent infoAnarchy] #
Footbridge: a lightweight tool to mirror Radio categories to Advogato, LiveJournal, and Blogger API sites (including Movable Type) #
SnipSnap
SnipSnap is a free and easy to install Weblog and Wiki Software written in Java. Hum, belle solution il me semble, je creuse un peu plus tar ce lien. Avec Open Wiki je dois dire que je suis de plus en plus épaté par la facilité d'idéation et de collaboration du wiki... Je suis accro (surtout que Open Wiki règle ma plainte #1 des wikis LesMotsToutCollésPourVisualiserLesLiens, c'est excellent comme concept en mode édition mais énervant en mode lecture)! #
Macromedia - Contribute : Product Overview
With Macromedia Contribute now anyone can easily update and publish content to existing websites without knowing HTML. Pas de version à télécharger pour tester??? #
Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful
A number of problems resulting from the use of the text/html MIME type in conjunction with XHTML content are discussed. It is suggested that authors should use HTML 4.01 instead of XHTML until such time as the majority of installed user agents correctly support XHTML when delivered with an XML content type. Lecture intéressante pour ceux qui se nourrissent de Tag Soup... #
Je quitte à l'instant pour le Gala des affaires électroniques, nous (Messagia) sommes finalistes dans la catégorie innovation technologique. Ce n'est pas nécessairement le genre de sortie mondaine qui m'attire (195$ le couvert!) mais l'honneur d'être finaliste dans cette catégorie compense grandement. J'espère avoir l'occasion de rencontrer des gens intéressants... et d'en convainvre quelques uns des bienfaits de la discipline carnetière... #
Books on the science of networks recap (with links to books) of the Wired article. [from Seb's Open Research] #
Why the frell hasn't the Semantic Web bloomed yet? Une réflexion candide et lucide sur le carnet de Seth Russell. #
Rules of thumb for building frameworks
Here are some things I've learned from frameworks I've used and frameworks I've worked on. Please add your own lessons and guidelines in the comments... #
Brad Wilson posted about two new weblogs to which he just subscribed: Dan Dunham's game development blog (strangecoding) and Jamie [Fristrom] On Game Development. They both look promising... Hey frérot, ça va t'intéresser!
[via Grumpicus Maximus (Erik Noble's Radio Weblog)] #
Il y a 2 ans sur afroginthevalley:
Frustre, sans accents et a bout de souffle. Ca fait 4 jours que je suis dans le jus pour un projet bof avec une demi equipe pour me supporter, a jouer le role de chef de projet, sysadmin, lead technique, integrateur web, designer et coach. J'ai des masses de trucs que j'ai envie d'ecrire! Ca ira a plus tard. Et je n'ai pas d'accent sur mon clavier de laptop...Il y a 1 an sur afroginthevalley:
I will survive! Ca c'est mon Ode de nuit, ca raconte bien ce que je fais depuis presque 3 semaines... c'est un "inside", mais ca raconte ma relation avec le sport très extreme de faire du CRM avec du opt-in mailing a un quart de milion de personnes 2 fois par semaine (et ca c'est juste pour UN client)...Ceci est une des causes majeures de ma survie de nuit.Aujourd'hui:
Il est 10h05, et plusieurs de mes fantastiques employé(e)s travaillent au bureau pour faire ce que je me tapais moi même auparavant... j'ai passé une très belle soirée à la maison, mangé un souper délicieux et lu un peu sur internet pour me détendre. Je vais me coucher sur cette réjouissante perspective qu'apporte la rétrospective: ça s'améliore, pas toujours aussi vite que je voudrais, mais ça avance! Bonne nuit à tous.#
Il nous faut peu de mots pour exprimer l'essentiel. Paul Éluard.
(mais parfois beaucoup d'hyperliens de rajouter la grenouille!) #
FilmGimp, VirtualDub, Jahshaka ... Pas encore tout à fait After Effects et Premiere, mais presque... avec code source en prime! #
So what is XDocs?
From ZdNet: Here's what we know for sure: XDocs is a forms application and soon-to-be new member of the Microsoft Office family. (...) XDocs is also the company's trial balloon Web services client. Microsoft execs referred to XDocs as a "smart client alternative to Office." For those laboring to keep pace with the latest Microspeak, a smart client is the fat PC desktop revisited. Goodbye, Web browser front end; hello, hefty smart client. Remember, XDocs didn't appear out of thin air. There is a considerable amount of NetDocs philosophy, if not actual code, under XDocs' covers. Remember NetDocs? It almost ended up being a rival to Microsoft Office—which would have been fine, except that it was developed inside Microsoft. The company axed the NetDocs project last year, folding its remaining staffers into the Office team... Un peu de perspectives sur ce projet de Microsoft. #
PDF2TXT
PDF2TXT software can extract text from pdf files, it needn't Adobe Acrobat software, it has high speed in process. It can convert a lot of pdf files on the fly to text files. Voir aussi PDF2HTML. Je déteste les PDFs, 90% du temps ils sont inutiles. #
MailMan-to-RSS: MailMan RSS feeds
Yahoo! Groups does it -- so why shouldn't MailMan? A quick Perl script which scrapes a MailMan list archive and generates an RSS feed of the most recent articles. Mucho pratico! #
GuLSE - Groupe des utilisateurs Linux de St-Eustache et des Environs
Réunion du GuLSE, mercredi, 13 novembre 2002 @ 19:30, Sainte-Thérèse. Première réunion du GuLSE au collège Lionel Groulx! À 10 minutes de mon domicile banlieusard... j'y serais peut-être. #
How to Obscure Any URL
There's a little more to Internet addressing than commonly meets the eye; there are conventions which allow for some interesting variations in how an Internet address is expressed. These tricks are known to the spammers and scammers, and they're used freely in unsolicited mails. You'll also see them in ad-related URLs and occasionally on web pages where the writer hopes to avoid recognition of a linked address for whatever reason. Now, I'm making these tricks known to you. Read on, and you'll soon be very hard to fool. Geeky et passionnant (le deuxième adjectif s'applique seulement si vous qualifiez pour le premier). #
Creating Web Services with AXIS
Apache AXIS is a substantial and comprehensive open source Java (and eventually C++) toolkit for building and deploying Web service clients and servers. Based on standards (HTTP, the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and XML), AXIS includes APIs, tools, and lots of sample code that you'll find invaluable whether you're deploying your first simple Web service, a full-blown commercial service, or a Java applet that interacts with another vendor's Web service. Bonne introduction à une autre pièce d'interstructure. #
Geeks on the Half Shell 2.0
Un extrait de la synthèse de Doc Searls suite à une semaine intensive avec quelques geeks influents sur un bateau dans les Caraïbes.
- Linux' presence in the world is steadily, inexorably, commodifying operating systems, and there is nothing anybody, including Microsoft, Sun or anybody else can do to stop it.
- Hardware is now so commodified that tolerance for relatively expensive software is bound to go away at the low end of the market.
- Transparency is a virtue that make the case for a lot of open-source code, as well as its development methods.
- New generic applications will become platforms of their own, thin layers of hard code on which countless scripts and scripted applications can run.
- LOTD--Linux on the Desktop--will inevitably become popular. It might not happen rapidly, but the success of Mozilla 1.x is a useful harbinger.
- The big companies are finally getting fed up with the high cost of doing business with Microsoft.
101 things you can do in Mozilla
The following lists 101 things that one can do with the Mozilla browser component that one cannot do with IE. The list only includes things that don't require manually changing the registry or some other obscure thing. Yeah! Je n'utilise plus jamain IE, sauf dans les très rares cas ou je dois tester la compatibilité... mais jamais pour mes besoins quotidiens. Surtout que je me promène à l'occasion de Win2K vers OS X et Mandrake Linux, le fait d'avoir Mozilla installé et configuré de même façon sur les trois environnements est vraiment pratiquem, reste à trouver un système pour partager les configurations et bookmarks entre les environnements de façon transparente... #
Clustone V2.5 - new Gnutella client
The aim of clustone is to combine exchange with communication. Clustone allows users to communicate more efficiently in a very simple way using webcam, pc to pc phone, remote pc control... It may change the way people share files... Clustone is the first freeware to merge two different file sharing protocols (gnutella & clustone). Both work at the same time and incorporate advanced features: resume downloads, get one file from different sources simultaneous, multiple filetypes, multiple searches... C'est à se demander pourquoi il faut encore ré-inventer la roue, pourquoi ne pas utiliser les efforts de Jabber en terme de messagerie instantanée/gestion de présence? En tout cas, ça vaut la peine d'y jetter un coup d'oeil, l'idée est bonne...
[via infoAnarchy] #
mod_rewrite: A Beginner's Guide to URL Rewriting. A good walkthrough on how to implement mod_rewrite in Apache. [via Sanjay's Journal of Coding Tips] #
IETF Charters Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) Working Group
The IESG has approved the charter for a new Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) Working Group. XMPP is an open, XML-based protocol for near real-time extensible messaging and presence; it is the core protocol of the Jabber Instant Messaging and Presence technology. The IETF WG will use existing XMPP drafts as a basis for work on XML streams (including stream-level security and authentication), core data elements, and namespaces. XMPP es largement basé sur les efforts des dernières années des développeurs de Jabber. Vous pouvez suivre les discussion sur la liste XMPP.
[via The XML Cover Pages] #
OASIS Technical Committee for Open Office XML File Format
OASIS is forming a new 'Open Office XML Format Technical Committee'. The TC will create an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications. The proposed XML file format will support W3C Namespaces, and be suitable for office documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical components. Deliverables include XML DTDs/schemas defining the vocabulary, constraints, and semantics of the XML file format.
[via The XML Cover Pages] #
Xaraya CMS
It would appear the post-postNuke development effort has made it's debut.
[via Syndication News from Bill Kearney] #
Meta-CVS
A version control system built around CVS that offers many advanced features. It requires no change to the server side and works with the existing Free Software community infrastructure. Can it solve the complains about CVS? Does anyone use this tool? Please share your experience! [via Advogato] #
Blogs are our Avatars
I was mulling over the difference between posting in mailing lists and posting to your own blog. We can communicate equally well in both media; and both media provide for a public record. So what accounts for the growing preference of people to have their own blog? It's simple, the presentation of a person in a mailing list is fragmented, there is no coherance ... their personality is scatterd amoung their different posts. Not so with a blog, one's personality comes through loud and clear. Its like when we go to a party ... we dress up ... we try to present ourselves as we want to be seen, we can do that in our own blog, it's a lot harder in mail groups and in Usenet. I think (hope) blogs will evolve rapidly ... they will become our public persona ... they will become our avatars !! Une réflexion très juste, tirée d'un carnet que j'ai trouvé dans la signature d'un des participants à la liste de discussion group-forming [extrait cité du weblog de Seth Russell] #
All About the Tablet PC
Extensive FAQ over at PenComputing.com covering nearly everything you could possibly want to know about the Tablet PC.
[via Gizmodo] #
P2P companies or 'loosly coupled business'. Hum, de bonnes réflexions sur les affaires... [via Curiouser and curiouser!] #
Ok, back to work. Not bad, cleaned out the new stories in twenty minutes. "Smoke break" over. (No, I don't smoke but if they get an afternoon break, why shouldn't I?) Hehehe, amusant. I don't smoke, I blog! Ouais, c'est aussi compulsif et aussi difficile d'arrêter! Ah ce truc sur mon bras, c'est une patch RSS, j'esseye d'arrêter de blogguer... [idée de départ sur Grumpicus Maximus] #
Thoughts on Video Blog Experiment
L'émergence de nouvelles formes de communication requiert l'émergence de nouvelles compétences et de nouvelles façons de faire. Un bon survol de l'expérience de VideoBlog durant la convention de Macromedia, par Marcromedia et son équipe.
[via Jeremy Allaire's Radio] #
Dan Gillmor interview on Slashdot is up today, and it's terrific. Dan's at the head of the pack of tech journalists, and he's worth taking seriously. "I doubt we'll see another boom like the one that just crashed. But we'll come out of this mess. It'll happen when people trust the markets again, because there's lots of innovation going on."
[via Boing Boing Blog] #
participatory Journalism: When a citizen, or group of citizens, plays an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information. The intent of this participation is to provide independent, reliable, accurate, comprehensive and relevant information that a democracy require. . Iin an era when anyone can be a reporter or commentator on the Web, 'you move to a two-way journalism' John Seely Brown suggests. The journalist becomes a 'forum leader,' or a mediator rather than simply a teacher or lecturer. The audience becomes not consumers, but 'pro-sumers,' a hybrid of consumer and producer.
[Via RatcliffeBlog -- Social and Political]
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