Microsoft might lighten Wi-Fi's load: News.com's Ben Charny reports that Microsoft may offload some silicon functions from a Wi-Fi access point to the host computer.

If this means that they will release the software to extend Internet Connection Sharing so that any dual homed PC with a Wireless and wired card can act as an Access Point, I applaud.

9:59:40 AM    

The NY Times sent a reporter into the Jenin Refugee Camp on the West Bank.

To use an old-fashioned word it seems to me that what has been done here is a SIN. The public relations conflict over it sickens me to the stomach, and I bet that the truth - if it ever emerges - will be far worse that the Israeli army has acknowledged.

9:54:33 AM    

Bob Frankston: "In fact, a consortium of all of the telecommunications regulatory agencies and companies united in an effort to create a world-wide standard for email. It was called X.400 and the effort started in the early 1980's. While waiting for X.400 there was a need for an interim protocol. ... The protocol, SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Program), is dominant while X.400 is almost forgotten."  [Scripting News]

I remember when I was Wimpey and we had succeeded in wiring up the three divisions on MS Mail, there was quite a debate on whether a X400 or SMTP gateway should be the first priority. To me it seemed a no-brainer that it should be SMTP.

PS MS Exchange is built on the "almost forgotten" X.400.

9:49:42 AM