Monday, May 31, 2004

Straight off SlashDot: "prostoalex writes "The question of the best weblogging system out there arises quite often, especially after the new licensing scheme introduced by MovableType. Here's a rather detailed breakdown of currently popular blogging and content management systems. Out of 11software packages, 10 run on any server with variations of Perl/PHP andMySQL/PostgresSQL, and one requires Windows and .NET Framework. 4 arelicensed under GPL, 3 are under BSD. Mark Pilgrim explains why licensing is suddenly important."" It's a bummer Manila and Radio were left off the list, but I'm sure many other systems were as well. [BryanBell.com] http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/24/1927242.shtml?tid=126&tid=185&tid=95 8:28:33 PM

iPodLibrary provides "books" in the form of iPod notes for your reading in concert with listening pleasure during the morning commute (assuming you're not behind the wheel, of course). Ideally suited to reference, sports and music info, guides and so-on, we now aim to make them available here at iPodLibrary.com - and also aim to encourage as many people as possible to author their own and to submit them for distribution. All kinds of arcane and fun topics would work well... have a think.... Already available are "iKnow F1" on Formula 1 racing (glossary, stats, Murray Walker quotes) and "Apple_Bytes" (history, facts, and trivia on Apple Computer). Buy from Amazon | Discuss this story [MobileWhack] 8:01:16 PM

Visualize the Internet with Envision (24-May-2004; 4.4K) [TidBITS] 12:07:45 PM

30 May 2004: "One of the coolest features of Ethereal is its ability to reassemble all of the packets in a TCP conversation and display the ASCII in a very easy-to-read format. This makes it easy to pick out usernames and passwords from insecure protocols such as Telnet and FTP. The data can also be viewed in EBCDIC, hex dump, and C arrays. This data can then be saved or printed. A good use for this can be to reconstruct a web page. Just follow the stream of the HTTP session and save the output to a fil [RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix] http://RootPrompt.org/article.php3?article=6929 11:39:55 AM

Sun To Upgrade Java Desktop System [Slashdot] 11:36:00 AM