Sunday, August 4, 2002

TechQuiz: UDDI Thanks to everyone who took our last "Life Time Fitness quiz on RSS. The official standings follow. But first, we invite you to take our new quiz on the directory services of Web Services, UDDI. Try your hand and see how you rate against our experts. What does RSS stand for?  RDF Site Summary   28 percent Microsoft employed RSS in IE  True   28 percent What is the present recommendation for RSS?  1.0   42 percent RSS was introduced by Netscape with its my.netscape.com service.  True   64 percent Which of the following is NOT an RSS channel element?  site   42 percent Posted by Brad Shimmin at 9:38:41 PM   comment on this post  >>[]

spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam Contrary to popular belief, not even the folks at Hormel like spam -- mail that is. But you have to admit, some of those unwanted e-mails are pretty, er...interesting. If you've gotten a quirky Spam recently, send it our way or tell us about it. We'll post the best messages in print and online. While you're at it, check out this week's This Week at Network Computing show to catch Mike and I grill our Lab manager, Ron Anderson, on his practices and techniques for keeping spam away from the Network Computing team. Posted by Brad Shimmin at 9:03:43 PM   comment on this post  >>[]

what's on your IT to-do list? What important IT task do you have to accomplish this week? Installing Windows 2000 SP3? Evaluating a new telco provider? Tell us about your most pressing IT task. And we'll post your interesting to-dos in print and on the Daily Blog. Posted by Brad Shimmin at 9:03:00 PM   comment on this post  >>[]