Friday, 5 July 2002

Radio eats News Bugger, I just lost some of my News backlog. Bugger. I'll have to manually cut'n'paste LtU's CSP postings instead. 4:50:50 PM

25 hour days Isn't it Time for Metric Time? [Slashdot] If only there were 25 hours in a day... 4:16:10 PM

Mummy, Mike's teasing us.. James Strachan on Google: "Fascinating stuff. I always find it amazing that you can search the entire web much faster than I can search a few weeks worth of personal email on my laptop via MS Outlook." This is far too true - but we are doing something about it - more news to come soon. ";)" [rebelutionary] Mike, what are you upto? I WANNA PLAY GODDAMNIT. :) 2:48:30 PM

Trust metrics http://www.levien.com/free/tmetric-HOWTO.html [Dave's Handsome Radio Blog!] Trust metrics. Cool stuff. Wrap this into a p2p tool for lots o fun. 2:47:11 PM

Big companies need to be outlawed What do you think your corporate IT department says to Microsoft when they come calling? I can just imagine it goes something like this: 1) "We want the ability to know what our employees are doing with our computers." 2) "We want to know who they sent email to (even if it's on a Hotmail site)." 3) "We want to know what files they send via Instant Messaging." 4) "We want to know what Web sites they both looked at and published to." 5) "We want to be able to search any employees' hard drive for any piece of information and get it fast." [Scobleizer Radio Weblog] How much proof do we need that large organisations are prone to systemic failure? The people at the top lie, cheat and steal. The people at the bottom lie, cheat and steal. And the people in the middle are busy trying to invent systems to stop everyone else from lying, cheating and stealing. I can't see a whole lot of concentrating on actually doing the job of the company in there ... 2:44:21 PM

Eclispe evolving towards Emacs AllTheNews. AllTheNews is a little RSS news aggregator plugin for eclipse. A bit more work and this could be quite cool. [james strachan's musings] Now all Eclipse needs is a irc client and a news client (oh, and a mail client, and a blogging tool, and ...). Who was it that said every editor evolves to the point where it is feature equivalent with Emacs? :) 2:34:11 PM

Need Open Source Java Crypto? BouncyCastle Just downloading Bouncy Castle afresh for some snarky stuff in the web spider I am currently hacking up, and I noticed that BC has grown. It now is doing S/MIME. Last time I looked only commercialware java crypto packages had that capability. Of course, I have yet to test it blah blah blah. But, they guys at http://www.bouncycastle.org are quite supportive and react in a timely fashion to bug reports and what not. So if you need open source java crypto - BouncyCastle! :) [Later...] Fixing broken URL - Mozilla was invisble correcting bouncycastle.org to www.bouncycastle.org - i think. :) 12:30:11 PM

Its my birthday and I'll *cough* if I want to Sick at home again. Lurgi now has bacterial fangs. Lil bugger. And its my brthday. Im almost over the hill - 28. :) 12:19:45 PM

The end of cleartext communications Social Engineering. Content as the network allows. The end of End to End... [Patrick Logan's Radio Weblog] The one thing that is about to happen, what with RIAA suing end users of p2p apps, and smart routers QoS'ing data packets is that all communications are about to become encrypted. All dealings between p2p agents will now build trust networks where untrusted clients will be have limited access. We have seen this all before - go read the narcotics IT stories again. Using AS400's to trace trust. Will the elite controllers ever learn? I doubt it. [Later...] Had a further thought on this issue - think about what is happening between routers and SOAP. Most corporate firewalls have been set up to prevent anything other than port 80 traffic, thus SOAP, for reasons of actually being able to work in todays environment, is now working over HTTP. Anyone up for writing a SOAP P2P spec? It wouldn't take long to implement such a beast in Java, on top of Mozilla, in Radio, ... 12:15:17 PM

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