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Three academic computer scientists have uncovered a serious security hole in the Google Desktop Search Toolbar that was released on October 14th. Dan Wallach, assistant professor of computer science at Rice University and two graduate students, Seth Fogarty and Seth Nielson, have known of the security problem for a month; however, this is the first confirmed report of a serious
This note was forwarded through SixApart and should be hitting the Developer Network mailing list or Forums shortly I am in need of a MT consultant / developer. I have a MT site www.geeknewscentral.com, it is firing on most cylinders but it has a custom CSS that has made it difficult for me to enable dynamic html and make other
Showcase Site of the Day is our way of saying Thank You, to any site that links to our website. To get your site listed visit here. Today's Showcase site is: Darren Barefoot, Daren says, thought I'd shamefully suggest my site as a site o' the day that links to yours. It's at www.darrenbarefoot.com, and I mostly discuss technology, pop
It's nice to see my commentary being analyzed. I understand very well the dynamics of the linking to one another and the power of cross pollination of each others feeds. This is one of the reasons we started Showcase site of the day.. Maybe I need to develop the Geek Squad to blatantly copy the Podsquad idea.. [CORANTE]
Their have been some updates to MSN Spaces here is a link to a list of them. [Microsoft Developer]
A Wired article this week had the bold headline Hollywood Wants BitTorrent Dead. It is obvious that no matter the technology and no matter that the technology is being used legally by many of us the Music and Movie industry want to smash anything that can be constructed as a P2P network. It will not be long before they start
Publishers are starting to take interest in Bloggers and some are getting book deals [NYT Technology]
The dictionary definition of "blog" is correct, but it says nothing about the network in which the blog participates. By way of analogy, consider a dictionary definition of a telephone: "an instrument that converts voice and other sound signals into a form that can be transmitted to remote locations and that receives and reconverts waves into sound signals." That's fine
Hi everyone, my name is Jay Allen and I am the Product Manager for Movable Type. I'm writing today to address—what else?—comment spam.
Just like any good geek I like to dig right into a service or software package to see what surprises it holds for me. Geeks usually portray this type of behavior and we only go to the manual when needed, if your lucky enough to have one. But some people are not as technically blessed and many people either want
This security issue has been confirmed on patched Windows XP system with IE 6.0 and Service Pack 2, could allow a scammer to display a fake Web site with all the attributes of a genuine, secure site, including the URL and the icon indicating SSL security. [eWeek]
I have been doing a little research on the SwarmStream and wonder if this is not a viable option that could be incorporated if the Podcasters organize to help distribution of data. [SwarmStream]
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