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Sunday, June 30, 2002

rinetd: Cool Tool for Using Radio Remotely

This little tip looks like the ticket for making all the Radio auto-subscribe stuff work if you are doing remote access. It fixes some of the Radio macros that direct back to local network addresses (127.0.0.1). Good for futures.

rinetd DESCRIPTION

Redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another. rinetd is a single-process server which handles any number of connections to the address/port pairs specified in the file /etc/rinetd.conf. Since rinetd runs as a single process using nonblocking I/O, it is able to redirect a large number of connections without a severe impact on the machine. This makes it practical to run TCP services on machines inside an IP masquerading firewall. rinetd does not redirect FTP, because FTP requires more than one socket.

A Busy Writer's Guide to Radio Renderers

More discussion: In-line macros in OPML files, What controls the template that is used to render files in categories.., viewOPML() in Radio. This last looks really good.

Discussion on Radio Category Templates

On the Road Again

Heading out to beautiful, suave Lincoln, NE for the next few days so I'll be posting via Mail-to-Weblog again as I have time. While I'm traveling I'll also be getting my daily dose of American Invisible, Inc. Click on over and see what Hugh Madison is doing. It's a nice little break in the day and a clever switch from some of the more staid ideas in publishing.

Dan Rosenbaum at Over the Edge was kind enough to pass on some info on how he gets remote access and what I need to make it work. I'll be putting Dan's suggestions to work over the next few weeks. Thanks Dan!

I've got a temporary fix for my laptop woes. I've managed to scrounge an aging IBM ThinkPad 385XD. The thing is an absolute brick, but it looks like what the IBM CEs used to carry so I know it's rugged. It's a little slow, but it was free. And I don't need to do anything but web browse, e-mail, and a little word processing. This is just the ticket for someone in transition.

When I return I'll be working on Radio again, trying to get some Categories setup. Lawrence Lee of Tomolak's Realm has been a great help in understanding just what makes the Category Templates work. I'll try to adequately document that when I start working.

The Categories will let me better manage and organize content elements so I can begin focusing on my real objective, which is to track some of the warm undercurrents surging beneath the rather tepid surface of the print and publishing industries.

There's a lot happening there that isn't readily observable. What is observable often looks very foolish. I don't see anyone really taking an unbiased view of the foolishness (maybe this is because consultants have to get paid and can't afford to piss everybody off. I'd like to get paid, too. But not if it means running around parroting Mr. Indu Strypundit and cheerleading for questionable ideas.

Workplace Monitoring Being Revisited in Canada

This is happening in Canada mostly because they have a Privacy Commissioner, a bureaucrat who needs something to do. We don't have that here so don't expect any similar thought process to taek place until monitoring practices are challenged by the unions.

globetechnology.com - Shift to more workplace privacy protection.

In sorting through the legality of workplace surveillance, many assume that employers' ownership of the computing equipment and the right to set workplace rules grant them an unfettered right to monitor employees' computer usage provided that they disclose the practice. Typically framed as a matter of reasonable expectation of privacy, the belief is that if employees are told not to expect any privacy in the workplace, they don't have any.

A closer examination of Canadian law suggests the rules for workplace surveillance are gradually shifting, however -- moving away from an assessment of the reasonable expectation of privacy toward deciding whether the surveillance itself is reasonable.

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