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Tuesday, October 1, 2002
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The Google custom search which I included on the weblog template works all right for older postings, but doesn't really cover the new ones (one to two weeks old). I hope that Google at some point makes it possible to search the RSS files directly for weblog postings, as pointed out by Radio Free Blogistan.
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Apple Server Is Impressive: "Apple's first foray into the enterprise server market is a powerful 1U rack-mountable device. Blending open-source functionality and Mac OS X usability, the Xserve will likely find its way into small businesses and workgroups." (eWeek via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Ozone 'hole' shrinking over Antarctica. "The ozone hole over Antarctica is markedly smaller this year than in the last few years and has split in two, government scientists reported yesterday." See also Unusually Small Ozone Hole Attributed To Strong Upper Level Weather Systems and Ozone hole has shrunk - scientists. [Google Technology News]
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SAP ushers SuSE into World League. "With SAP's backing, SuSE could present a more credible challenge to Red Hat, the dominant Linux distro in the enterprise. Corporate customers will also be more confident in installing mySAP.com apps on Linux on x86 clusters, maybe saving big bucks on big tin RISC server costs." [The Register]
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'Bugbear' worm opens backdoors, logs keystrokes: "Anti-virus companies warned computer users on Monday about a new worm that opens up a backdoor in the computers and logs keystrokes." See also Beware Bugbear ! It opens backdoors and News24. [Google Technology News]
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Steal Your Interface: "Apple is credited with developing the graphical user interface, which Microsoft copied, but the contribution of users and small developers has been largerly overlooked. By Leander Kahney." [Wired News]
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China's "soaring dragon" Linux chip fully MIPS compatible: "WE DON'T GET invited to chip bashes at the Chinese embassy, unfortunately, so missed an important missive it issued a whole year back on the "Dragon Chip" the People's Daily wrote about last Friday..." See: China Develops Their Own CPU: The "Dragon Chip" [Google Technology News]
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Microsoft Cuts Office Price On New Macs: "On the surface, the bundling deal would appear to be a big price break for Mac users thinking of buying Office. But Windows users have more competing products to choose from and can pay much less for Office." (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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The Onion | Al-Qaeda Allegedly Engaging In Telemarketing: "In a chilling development, the CIA announced Monday that it has acquired a videotape showing suspected al-Qaeda operatives engaging in what appears to be telemarketing." [Daypop Top 40]
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Aqua eye-candy comes to the PC: "Stardock has released a small utility that brings several of the dazzling effects seen in Apple's Aqua UI to the PC. WindowFX 2.0, released today, performs Direct3D operations including transparency and transitions on each window..." [The Register]
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Satire site shut by police lives again: "The satirical Web site, thinkofthechildren.co.uk, has reactivated - after it was shut down following intervention by police." [The Register]
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Apple loses World's Most Valuable List: "The iTools database has none of these flaws. Using basic data mining, Apple can use this information to produce relationship maps, spending information and usage patterns that other companies can only dream about. It's pure gold and possibly the most valuable customer list in the world, ounce for ounce." [The Register]
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John Robb's Radio Weblog points to Marketing Magazine:
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Radio Free Blogistan has a long post on the motivation of bloggers. The blog quotes The Weigh In on the limited effectiveness of punditoblogging: [B]logging is not enough anymore for me. ... The people who we need to influence, whose minds need to be changed, those people are not reading my blog. Although I'm amazed at how much new information I am learning to support and counter my beliefs on a daily basis, I feel that I need to somehow start connecting with the people who don't agree with me. I need to sharpen my chops through more debate, more conflict, more exposure to the idiotarians and the anointed, if you will.
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Sample code for focused custom Google search: "The site search feature of Google's free custom search offering works by default only for sites whose addresses are root-level URLs (so, for example, you can use it out-of-the-box to search jrobb.userland.com or blogs.salon.com but not blogs.salon.com/0001111/). ... I've come up with code that produces a custom Google search of just this blog. ... I've written up the learning process with a few code samples as a story." [Radio Free Blogistan]
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How to move a Radio Weblog to another machine: "One of the greatest strengths and weaknesses of a Radio-based Weblog is that it lives on your own hard drive. But things can get tricky when you need to move your Radio installation from one machine to another. Here is what I did to temporarily move MNJ." [Mac Net Journal]
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iMakeContent discusses Wikipedia: "the collaborative encyclopedia anyone can edit, now contains over 50,000 articles. The entry on the anti-globalisation movement has a revision history that's a good illustration of how Wikipedia works."
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Virus poses as Microsoft security patch: "Hoax e-mail advertises IE, Outlook fix." [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Web Radio Could Get Respite: "Your favorite Web radio station could vanish within weeks, unless Congress stalls an order imposing royalty rates that exceed those for broadcast stations." See also Net radio - call your congressman today and Business WeekGoogle Technology News]
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Spam opponents turn to lawsuits to stop junk e-mail: "Anti-spam advocates are hoping that lawsuits will do what technology and state laws have so far failed to do -- stopping what has become the digital equivalent of swatting away flies at a picnic." See also California Sues Spammer for $2 Million. [Google Technology News]
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Govt. to unveil top 20 vulnerabilites: " ... this Wednesday ... the US General Services Administration (GSA) unveils its list of the top 20 Internet security vulnerabilities to a gathering of government chief information officers and IT professionals." See also GSA to unveil top 20 security flaws, focus on fixes and List of Top 20 Software Flaws DueGoogle Technology News]
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