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MSN Messenger 7: consolidating Windows’ lock-in strategy?

Guest post by Stéphane Rieppi 2005-01-15 Internet 181 Comments

What happens when the corporation anybody seems to love to hate, namely Microsoft, release a killer app and of makes it free (as in dollars), but, of course, keeps its source jealously closed? And worse than that, use it to maintain a strong lock-in to the Windows platform?

AWLP turns PC into Web-Managed Wireless Access Gateway

Submitted by Alptekin Cakircali 2005-01-04 Internet 5 Comments

AWLP - (Alptekin's Wireless Linux Project) is an open-source wireless software project that turns a Slackware Linux machine into a dedicated web-managed wireless access gateway. It has pretty much all the features you would expect from an off-the-shelf wireless access gateway. Description, detailed installation instructions, screenshots and downloadable source tarballs can be found at http://awlp.sourceforge.net

Integrate Linux and Windows with Samba

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-10 Internet 29 Comments

The third in a three-part series on how to leverage Linux to get the most from your network, this tutorial shows how to use Samba to integrate your Linux and Windows networks (reg. req.). Sample code and configuration files are provided throughout to aid understanding.

Sun And Microsoft Aim For Single Sign-On

Submitted by Tudy 2004-12-06 Internet 14 Comments

Microsoft and Sun Microsystems last week issued a progress report on the technical truce the companies called this year but gave little indication of what specific fixes they would devise to address customers' problems.

Linux needs better network file systems

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-03 Internet 32 Comments

In this article we'll examine the range of choices available for Linux network file systems. While the choices are many, we'll see that Linux still faces significant innovation challenges; yesterday's network paradigm isn't necessarily the best approach to the network of tomorrow.

Netscape Browser includes IE Engine

Submitted by Charles Hastings 2004-12-01 Internet 42 Comments

According to Digital Online news, a Windows version of Mozilla using both the Gecko engine, and the Internet Explorer engine is under development.

Blazing a new data speed record

Submitted by Tudy 2004-12-01 Internet 6 Comments

A group of researchers have found a way to quickly transfer huge amounts of data over computer networks, paving the way for greater global scientific cooperation and future commercial uses.

Mozilla global usage share to 7.35% according to OneStat

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-22 Internet 45 Comments

OneStat.com today reported that Mozilla's browsers have a total global usage share of 7.35 percent. The new Mozilla's Firefox has a total usage share of 4.58. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market with a global usage share of 88,90 percent which is 5 percent less as at the end of May.

XINS 1.0.0 released

Submitted by Ernst de Haan 2004-11-16 Internet 23 Comments

After 2 years of development, there is now a BSD-licensed web services technology that competes with the allegedly overcomplex Microsoft SOAP technology: XINS. XINS is heavily based on Java and XML. Main design goals include simplicity, scalability and testability. Features include transaction logging, log documentation, and automatic generation of HTML docs, test forms, client-side and server-side code. A comprehensive user guide is available.

Creating websites by hand

Guest post by Christian Paratschek 2004-11-10 Internet 87 Comments

With the recent browser statistics, that show Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla/Firefox, Safari/Konqueror and Opera combined at around 95%, it is finally feasible to write modern, CSS-based websites. For many years, this was not possible due to the vast number of legacy browsers, Internet Explorer 4 and 5 and Netscape 4 deployed on the computers around the planet. But with these browsers vanishing, we can finally start to ignore them.

Optimize TCP/IP performance by a factor of four

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-04 Internet 18 Comments

One of the key components in the TCP/IP protocol stack is the checksum computation, which ensures the integrity of the transferred data. This computation can be greatly accelerated with the use of single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) units prevalent in state-of-the-art processors. This article analyzes a former vectorization effort, shows how it can be improved upon, and then enhances it further.

Using Linux for secure VoIP/PSTN PBX communications

Submitted by Champ Clark 2004-11-02 Internet 5 Comments

Using Linux and the Asterisk PBX, it is possible to build a secure, cost effective VoIP (and traditional PSTN) PBX solution. This article shows you how to take advantage of various hardware, software and tricks to accomplish this goal within a limited budget.

Secure Your Wireless with IPsec (FreeBSD)

Submitted by 04ds6.44 2004-11-01 Internet 14 Comments

"Wireless access is all the rage. Wireless this, wireless that. Hot spots are turning up everywhere. Many are free. Many have absolutely no security. There are several in my neighborhood. I have no idea who is running them, but at least one is wide open." Read the article at OnLamp. My Take: At my apartment complex there are 3 other wireless networks, except ours. Two of them are open! I even warned one of the guys to secure it, but he doesn't seem to care! Funny how people don't care about data security.

Nokia releases Linux/Gtk+ port of WebCore

Submitted by Anonymous George 2004-10-23 Internet 27 Comments

Gtk+ WebCore -project releases pre-alpha version of Linux/Gtk port of WebCore/KHTML rendering engine and a reference browser implementation. Released components include KJS javascript interpreter, KHTML rendering engine, Qt porting layer, WebKit API for embedding and a reference browser for demonstrating the functionality of the other components. As the first GNOME Browser Atlantis was updated to use GTK-WebCore as standard rendering engine.

Build a network router on Linux

Eugenia Loli 2004-10-18 Internet 16 Comments

Zebra is open source TCP/IP routing software that is similar to Cisco's Internetworking Operating System (IOS). Flexible and powerful, it can handle routing protocols such as Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and all of their various flavors. This article shows how to set up Zebra and use it to manage routes dynamically in conjunction with real Cisco hardware.

Watson’s life nearing end; Sun delays Java version

Eugenia Loli 2004-09-24 Internet 29 Comments

Watson developer Dan Wood has posted an update on Sun's Java version of his popular Mac OS X application. "I am sad to say that it looks like Sun doesn't seem to be focusing on getting the port of Watson released any time soon," writes Wood on his blog.

RSS Advances Make Enterprise Headlines

Eugenia Loli 2004-09-20 Internet 1 Comment

Cuting throught the hype: RSS feeds can improve a range of corporate communications. But for many, it's a technology in need of a vendor.

NetFront: The Fast GTK+ Browser you Never Knew Existed

Eugenia Loli 2004-09-19 Internet 45 Comments

A few days ago we read about the Deli Linux, which aims to fill-in the gap of Linux distros in the 486/586 machine range by running lightweight/older applications. The disto comes with Dillo and Links as its browsers, but I bet there aren't many people who know that there is yet another very lightweight browser for GTK+ 1.2.x and it is more powerful and more memory-optimized than Dillo: Access' NetFront. Check for info and screenshots inside.

Which Browsers Do Techies Use?

Guest post by Chris Cowell-Shah 2004-09-03 Internet 103 Comments

This is a report of a very simple and unscientific effort to determine which browsers are used by tech-savvy power users. Why would anyone care? Idle curiosity, mostly. And because it might be interesting to see if the recent spate of well-publicized security problems with Windows and Internet Explorer have had any effect on browser choice among alpha geeks.

A new breed of Wi-Fi for the Mac and Windows

Eugenia Loli 2004-08-23 Internet 6 Comments

The imposing blue Linksys box is about to give way to a whole new crop of Wireless access points (AP) that work with the Mac OS and Windows. This article shows you four new APs that integrate hardware, software, and forward-thinking design that takes the integration of software and hardware a step further than anything that has come before it.