IBM puts power in new "blade" server. Big Blue unveils a prototype of a new high-end, compact server that will include a version of its Power processor.

[CNET News.com]

Note to self: AIX is IBM's version of UNIX (not HP's version).

7:05:33 PM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, My Organization, My Profession, Work Projects| Topics: IBM 

HP Itanium, formerly known as the Compaq Himalaya, formerly known as Tandem.

HP to double the processor count in Itanium servers. Attempting to fill technology gap

[InfoWorld: Top News]

7:03:04 PM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, My Organization, My Profession, Work Projects| Topics: Tandem 

xmlenc 0.4 [freshmeat.net]

I may have posted this already. If so please excuse the repeats.

3:37:09 AM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, My Organization, My Profession, Work Projects| Topics: Cryptography XML Java 

Found XMLSec Library listed on <?xmlhack?>.

Along with providing the actual XML Security library files (C libraries) designed to be used by other applications, the distribution also includes a command-line tool, xmlsec, for signing and encrypting documents.

This could solve my cyptlib woes for the time being.

5:38:22 PM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, My Organization, Work Projects| Topics: Cryptography XML 

RSA debuts XML signatures security for Web
InfoWorld - 5 hours ago
RSA SECURITY HAS begun shipping its software development kit (SDK), RSA BSAFE SecurXML-C, allowing developers to add digital signatures using XML (Extensible Markup Language) technology to Web services, the Bedford, Mass., company announced Tuesday.
Locking Down Web Services eWeek
RSA Helps To Secure Web Services InternetWeek.com

[Google Tech News]

9:32:25 PM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, My Organization, My Profession, Work Projects| Topics: XML Cryptography Security 

EDS ends alliance with PwC consulting following IBM purchase

[SiliconValley.com]

9:23:25 PM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, My Organization, My Profession, Work Projects|

Success factors for KM implementation. Charles H. Bixler has written about practical success factors for KM implementation, and his list consists of: Strong unified leadershipAlign KM with mission and business needsCohesive and engaged teamUnderstand current problems and issuesCollaboration and communicationInnovationUnderstanding and appropriate use of current...

[Column Two]

10:03:47 AM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, KM Klogs, My Organization, My Profession, RCS for Beginners, Work Projects| Topics: RCS_Intranet 

Keep email templates out of the B2B realm, please..

I pretty much disagree with almost every point in Brand-Aid for Everyday Email, by Barry Stamos, especially for B2B communications.

I deal with about 100 clients on a weekly basis, and get probably 1,000 emails on average each week. Only one of them sends me email in a branded HTML form. You know which client I hate to receive email from? Yep, you guess it, that one.

[snip]

Also, I personally use two or three email clients, and some support HTML and others don't. Why risk the chance of having your message displayed horribly to me, if you don't know what kind of email client I'm using? Isn't the real message more important than your damn logo? I mean really? If you're emailing me for a reason, then it's probably important to you that I get the message quickly and easily, right?

[inluminent/weblog] [Don W Strickland: software]

9:32:28 AM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, My Organization, My Profession|

UseIt: Great points about Email Newsletters.

Do you publish a newsletter? Are you thinking about it?

If so, read this article from UseIt: Email Newsletters Pick Up Where Websites Leave Off

You'll find some great information, and gain a better understanding of what's important in a newsletter by today's standards.

[via Netmarketing]

When you're done with that one, go read this one about writing headlines.

[inluminent/weblog] via [Don W Strickland: software]

9:25:14 AM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, My Organization, My Profession, Writing for Weblogs|

"Useit.Com: Email Newsletters Pick Up Where Websites Leave Off. The positive emotional aspect of newsletters is that they can create much more of a bond between user and company than a website can. The negative aspect is that usability problems have much stronger impact on the customer relationship than they normally do."

[Tomalak's Realm]

10:48:24 AM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, My Organization|

Thanks to Russell Beattie for pointing out W3Schools.com, a site with tutorials for all types of XML and Web technologies. The timing was perfect Russ, I need to write an Xenc (XML encryption) prototype for my boss by tomorrow.

11:51:14 AM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, My Organization, Work Projects| Topics: XML 

Do C-only SAX parsers exist? (C-only means no C++)

2:16:55 AM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, My Organization, My Profession| Topics: XML 

Make your URLs human-guessable. Jesse James Garrett writes about how to make your URLs user-friendly in an article at AdaptivePath.com:

Systems that don't take this user behavior into account pull the rug out from under users who have come to rely on readable URLs.

[Radio Free Blogistan]

9:41:08 AM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, My Organization|

RSA Labs RC5-64 bit secret key challenge solved. Distributed.net has successfully decrypted the RC5-64 bit encrypted message issued by RSA Security over 5 years ago.

[kuro5hin.org] via [Seb's Open Research]

12:18:56 AM  comment [] | Categories: JobFish Homework, My Organization| Topics: Encryption