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WebKit Ported to Qt 4

Submitted by Hakime 2006-08-03 Internet 13 Comments

The KDE team announced a new project to re-synchronize our HTML engine, KHTML, with the WebKit engine. Code named Unity, the project has so far focused on porting the WebKit engine to Qt 4 with minimal changes to the existing code-base. WebKit is a derivative of the KHTML engine by Apple.

REST on Rails

Submitted by anonymous 2006-08-02 Internet 1 Comment

"As Ruby experiences increasing success, developers are seeking to integrate their Ruby applications with applications written in other languages. Rails provides excellent support for Web services. This article introduces Web services in Rails and focuses on a strategy known as Representational State Transfer."

Should ICANN Open up?

Thom Holwerda 2006-07-30 Internet 49 Comments

This week, The Register ran a story on how the US supposedly had given up its 'control' over ICANN. ICANN, the body which assigns IP addresses and domain names worldwide, currently falls under the US Commerce Department via a contractual agreement; this means the US government can control ICANN. El Reg claimed the US had given up this control; Ars was quick to respond, stating that "the existing arrangement was likely to continue, at least for another year." Since the US had stated that it wanted to fully privatise ICANN by 2000, we'll have to wait and see what ICANN looks like in a year. In the meantime, do we really want the US to open up ICANN?

United States Cedes Control of the Internet – Or Not?

Thom Holwerda 2006-07-27 Internet 69 Comments

In a meeting that will go down in internet history, the United States government last night conceded that it can no longer expect to maintain its position as the ultimate authority over the internet. Having been the internet's instigator and, since 1998, its voluntary taskmaster, the US government finally agreed to transition its control over not-for-profit internet overseeing organisation ICANN, making the organisation a more international body. Update: Ars contradicts El Reg's claims: "Contrary to some reports, things are not about to change. After a meeting at the Commerce Department, Acting Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, John M.R. Kneuer, said that the existing arrangement was likely to continue, at least for another year."

Configure FTP Servers for IPv6

Submitted by IdaAshley 2006-07-20 Internet 10 Comments

"The next-generation protocol, Internet Protocol version 6, is becoming widely accepted as the future of the Internet and networking world. This acceptance has encouraged various IT companies to develop applications that support and talk with each other through the IPv6 address format. In this article, learn to configure the File Transfer Protocol server for IPv6, and to communicate with FTP servers through a simple Java program that uses the IPv6 address."

Firefox 2 Beta 1, IE7 Beta 3, Opera 9 Compared

Submitted by mikemuch 2006-07-19 Internet 29 Comments

"Right at this moment, big changes have or are about to occur in three well-known browsers: Internet Explorer is finally being updated, with version 7 in its third beta and almost ready to roll out the door; Firefox is also ripening an upgrade beta for its Version 2.0 - it's in beta 1; and finally Opera, which has a devoted but smaller following, has recently come out with Version 9.0. So, three new browsers in the same year, after no action for a half decade. How do they stack up?"

Fourth Mac OS X Browser Test

Submitted by Stamatis George 2006-07-14 Internet 19 Comments

"In our last test, we tested the four major browsers on Mac OS X (Safari, FireFox, Camino, and OmniWeb). It has since become the most popular article on our site. Since then, there have been several improvements on almost all of the browsers, so we decided to test again." More here. Elsewhere, check a preview of Firefox 2.0 too.

Roaming Ethernet Configuration with Guessnet

Submitted by lh8 2006-07-11 Internet 5 Comments

"If you use your laptop in many different locations, you must be tired of having to configure your network manually every time. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a nice alternative, but what can you do in places where DHCP is not an option. Guessnet is the right tool for that job."

Guide: SSH Tricks

Submitted by Borys Musielak 2006-07-05 Internet 27 Comments

"SSH is a program enabling secure access to remote filesystems. Not everyone is aware of other powerful SSH capabilities, such as passwordless login, automatic execution of commands on a remote system or even mounting a remote folder using SSH! In this article we'll cover these features and much more."

Submitted by falko 2006-07-04 Internet 2 Comments

"This article describes how you can monitor your Postfix mailserver with the tools Mailgraph and pflogsumm. Mailgraph creates daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of sent, received, bounced, and rejected emails and also of spam and viruses, if SpamAssassin and ClamAV are integrated into Postfix. These graphs can be accessed with a browser, whereas pflogsumm ('Postfix Log Entry Summarizer') can be used to send reports of Postfix activity per email."

Five Things You Must Know About VoIP

Eugenia Loli 2006-07-04 Internet 11 Comments

Ready to bring VoIP into your business? Getting pressure to implement it but trying to avoid it? Here's InformationWeek's five-point take on the state of the technology. On a similar note, the open source SIP service Ekiga.net now counts over 29,000 members.

Submitted by falko 2006-07-02 Internet 9 Comments

"This tutorial will show you how to setup greylisting with Postgrey and Postfix on Debian. Greylisting will not replace spam filtering software like SpamAssassin but it will serve as a powerful first hurdle for spam thus reducing the amount of spam entering the system at all."

Build a Better SOA Client with AJAX and the Dojo Toolkit

Submitted by anonymous 2006-07-01 Internet 3 Comments

Learn how to use the Dojo toolkit to build enterprise SOA clients for Java Platform, Extended Edition applications, and the the JavaScript Object Notation–RPC to invoke server-side Java objects.

Submitted by Hakime 2006-06-29 Internet No Comments

"I would like to introduce a new addition to the WebKit open source tools - a JavaScript debugger. Drosera, named after the largest genera of bug eating plants, lets you attach and debug JavaScript for any WebKit application - not just Safari. One of the unique things about Drosera, like the Web Inspector, is that over 90% of it is written in HTML and JavaScript. This is a true testament of what you can do with web technologies today and the rapid development that WebKit allows."

US Senate Deals Blow to Net Neutrality

Thom Holwerda 2006-06-28 Internet 51 Comments

A US Senate panel narrowly rejected strict Net neutrality rules on Wednesday, dealing a grave setback to companies like eBay, Google and Amazon that had made enacting them a top political priority this year. By an 11-11 tie, the Senate Commerce Committee failed to approve a Democrat-backed amendment that would have ensured all Internet traffic is treated the same no matter what its source or destination might be. A majority was needed for the amendment to succeed.

Linux Terminal Servers for Any Business

Submitted by MarkRais 2006-06-28 Internet 2 Comments

"A Linux Terminal Server offers any business an elegant and cost-effective way to integrate the power of open source. In this article, I review some basics of network topology and offer suggestions about how to install a prototype server. I top it off with some tips for business-specific installations and configuration."

Submitted by falko 2006-06-28 Internet 8 Comments

"There are a couple of Linux howtos floating on the Internet that deal with this very subject. As a matter of fact, those guides are what inspired me to write this one. In the spirit of keeping it simple, let me recommend the Mandrake or as it's currently known Mandriva Linux distro. This guide has been written with this distro in mind."

On Morning Crossness and Coffee-to-go Queues

Thom Holwerda 2006-06-25 Internet 47 Comments

Slowly, I step out of the Intercity train to Amsterdam, en route to university; I'm tired, I need some coffee. I check my watch and realise my metro leaves in 3 minutes, so I need to hurry in order to and buy me a coffee-to-go, and make it on time to the metro platform. I pick up my pace to run, as Mike Skinner would say.

Tim Berners-Lee on Net Neutrality: ‘This Is Serious’

Thom Holwerda 2006-06-24 Internet 51 Comments

"The inventor of the WWW has a short, to-the-point post that explains exactly why supporting real, bona fide net neutrality is the Right Thing to Do. I absolutely encourage you to read the entire post, but really he sums up the whole argument for net neutrality in his opening sentence: 'When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission.' If you think about it in terms of start-ups having to ask the permission of AT&T to innovate, then the whole net neutrality issue becomes less complicated."

uIP Embedded tcp/ip Stack 1.0 Released

Submitted by Adam Dunkels 2006-06-12 Internet 7 Comments

The widely used uIP TCP/IP stack is a very small implementation of the TCP/IP protocols, designed for memory constrained networked embedded systems. Version 1.0 adds a number of features such as a new socket-like API, rudimentary IPv6 support, and a DHCP client, as well as fixes corner-case bugs in TCP that have been found through many years of real-world testing.