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Macromedia Announces Flash Player 7 for
Solaris with Improved Security

Macromedia Announces Flash Player 7 for
Solaris with Improved Security 09/16/2004 12:41 PM
WebProNews Sep 16 2004 3:11PM GMT

Catbird Networks Launches New Improved
Intelligent Vulnerability Monitoring for
Network Security

Catbird Networks Launches New Improved
Intelligent Vulnerability Monitoring for
Network Security 02/05/2005 09:05 PM
Catbird Networks® today announced the launch of its improved Intelligent Vulnerability Monitoring (IVM) with new features that allow customers to access all vulnerability information online. The new Vulnerability Report summarizes all vulnerability information into one concise report. [PRWEB Feb 2, 2005]

WiFi Security

WiFi Security 05/31/2004 02:43 AM

Seems consumers are pulling WiFi devices out of the box plugging them in and surfing with the default systems more times than not. The question I want to ask is why are people that stupid. Would they invite a complete stranger into their house and go to bed while the stranger surfed the net a looked around inside their computers. I don't think so but running WiFi equipment straight out of the box is inviting just this to happen. [Yahoo]

New WiFi standard aimed at security is
ratified

New WiFi standard aimed at security is
ratified 06/26/2004 04:29 AM
The WiFi soup just got another friend: 802.11i. The new standard was ratified yesterday by the IEEE standards committee, and it brings stronger encryption and better security protocols to the table in an aim to replace the de facto security protocol.

WiFi popularity overshadows security
problems

WiFi popularity overshadows security
problems 06/01/2004 01:06 AM
Boston Globe Jun 1 2004 4:45AM GMT

New WiFi security adds strong encryption

New WiFi security adds strong encryption 09/01/2004 05:42 PM

S.A.Y. Security Group USA LLC &
Hospitality WiFi LLC Formal Partnership
Agreement

S.A.Y. Security Group USA LLC &
Hospitality WiFi LLC Formal Partnership
Agreement 06/17/2005 07:20 PM
SAY Security Group USA LLC is pleased to announce that it has entered into a formal partnership agreement with Hospitality WiFi LLC. This agreement will give SAY Security’s dealer and distributor base immediate access to the knowledge and experience of Hospitality WiFi’s wireless technology resources. Both companies will be located in the same manufacturing and engineering complex to allow for better communication and response to their customers. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2005]

Free open WiFi on Tacoma-Washington
train, courtesy WiFi hacker

Free open WiFi on Tacoma-Washington
train, courtesy WiFi hacker 03/24/2005 08:15 PM
Cory Doctorow: A Seattle wireless hacker rides a commuter train from Tacoma every day with a battery-powered WiFi hotspot in his backpack that's linked up to the Internet with a 14.4 144k wireless modem. Catch his train and get free WiFi on your commute.

The open wireless node can be found in the first car of the last morning train and in Car 403 on the 5:10pm return trip. Use SSID "FreeInternetAccess" or "seattlewireless" to connect - You may have to assign yourself an IP in the range 192.168.0.0/24 and use the Default Gateway 192.168.0.1 as the DHCP is sometimes flakey

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Hermosa Beach, California Launches Free
Citywide WiFi Service using advanced
WiFi-Plus obstruction penetrating
antennas.

Hermosa Beach, California Launches Free
Citywide WiFi Service using advanced
WiFi-Plus obstruction penetrating
antennas. 08/05/2004 03:39 AM
Los Angeles Beach Community WiFi service made possible by WiFi-Plus antennas. Makes internet available on the beach. [PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]

Review: WiFi Seeker / WiFi Spy

Review: WiFi Seeker / WiFi Spy 07/16/2004 04:50 PM
A few weeks ago I got Chrisalis Developemnt's WiFi Seeker, a convenient keychain-sized wireless network locator. Marware's recently announced WiFi Spy is a rebranded version of the same device, so it should perform identically.

To locate a wireless network simply press the button and watch the LEDs. When the lights stop sweeping back and forth, the number that remain lit will show the strength of the wireless signal. If the lights continue to sweep back and forth, you're not in range for any wireless network. Unlike other devices, the WiFi Seeker isn't fooled by other 2.5 GHz signals like microwave ovens or cordless phones, and it doesn't depend on 802.11 client activity to detect the access point. It detects both 802.11b and 802.11g.

The Improved Web Kit

The Improved Web Kit 06/17/2005 02:53 PM

We've already received and committed several patches from external contributors and the repository has only been live for a few hours!

As some of you have already noticed (those of you that built), the new Web Kit not only passes Acid2, but it's also substantially faster at loading Web pages and at handling JavaScript. It contains a number of additional performance improvements that went in post-Tiger.

One question people have asked is "Does this have to replace my system frameworks?" The answer is "No." You can run this custom version of Web Kit with a particular instance of Safari without replacing your system frameworks. The run-safari script we provided does this for you. If you study what it does, you'll see that you can easily try out your own WebKit apps with the new frameworks as well. We in fact encourage you to do this so that you can make sure your apps are functioning properly with the latest WebKit.

Now, a new, improved internet

Now, a new, improved internet 12/27/2004 10:51 AM
Economictimes Dec 27 2004 1:58PM GMT

IPod Improved

IPod Improved 07/23/2004 01:27 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Thu Jul 22, 08:47 pm GMT

New and Improved SETI

New and Improved SETI 01/02/2005 02:05 PM

Improved Caching in ASP.NET 2.0

Improved Caching in ASP.NET 2.0 07/07/2004 01:17 AM
Stephen Walther looks at the new caching features included in ASP.NET 2.0, and how you can use them to improve the performance and scalability of your ASP.NET applications.

Improved Search

Improved Search 07/11/2004 10:27 PM

I worked on improving the search on this site today. Search has been through a number of iterations. First, I used the basic Movable Type search. But it was slow and I wanted to do some interesting things with search.

So last year, I switched to using a SQL "LIKE" query to return two-tiered results, first from the title and keywords, then from the body and extended body. This has worked really well so far.

However, one thing bothered me about it: LIKE has no concept of word boundaries. This...

WHERE entry_text LIKE '%date%'

...returns matches for "date," "update," etc. So, I changed it a while ago to this syntax:

WHERE CONCAT(' ',entry_text,' ') LIKE CONCAT('% ','date',' %')

Basically, I started looking for the search term with a space on either side. This turned out to be an astoundingly stupid way to do it. What happens when the search term ends a sentence? Or begins the entry? Newlines, periods, and question marks are not spaces. Duh.

Today, however, I found the right way to do it:

WHERE entry_text RLIKE '[[:<:]]date[[:>:]]'

Those bracket-y things are MySQL's character classes for word boundaries. So it's like my "tack a space on either side" method, but it includes anything that's not a word. Very handy.

(But why don't I just use MySQL's full-text indexing, you ask? Because this is a hosted server, so I have to live with all the default MySQL settings. And the default settings exclude any word of less than four characters from being indexed. So three-letter acronyms like PHP, PDF, JSP, etc. wouldn't be in the index, and for a site like this, that's kind of a showstopper.)

I also did a little hacking of the search phrase you submit. For instance, searching for...

windows update

...will give you different results than if you search for...

"windows update"

Essentially, I tokenize the string but group quoted passages together. So, this...

"four score and seven years ago" abraham lincoln gettysburg

...would get tokenized like this:

Array
(
    [0] => four score and seven years ago
    [1] => abraham
    [2] => lincoln
    [3] => gettysburg
)

Finally, I included some stop words to save my database some work. This...

The penguin is the mascot of Linux

...gets reduced to this...

Array
(
    [0] => penguin
    [1] => mascot
    [2] => linux
)

So, I'm hoping to shake a few bugs out of it in the next few weeks, then I'll post the class so anyone who wants to can take a look at it.

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Repression, new and improved!

Repression, new and improved! 12/16/2003 12:31 PM
A Net of Control "Picture, if you will, an information infrastructure that encourages censorship, surveillance and suppression of the creative impulse. Where anonymity is outlawed and every penny spent is accounted for. Where the powers that be can smother subversive (or economically competitive) ideas" Brought to you by (among others)......Microsoft !

XServe Improved: Dual 2.3 GHz G5s, 1.2
TB

XServe Improved: Dual 2.3 GHz G5s, 1.2
TB 01/04/2005 10:52 AM

The new and improved John Bolton

The new and improved John Bolton 04/11/2005 02:34 PM
Bush's nominee to serve as U.N. ambassador tempers his criticisms to win confirmation.

Sonic unveils improved ESB

Sonic unveils improved ESB 05/18/2004 06:02 AM
Personal Computer World May 18 2004 10:19AM GMT

Linux interoperability improved

Linux interoperability improved 09/20/2004 09:17 PM
Computer Weekly Sep 21 2004 1:19AM GMT

Ten CSS tricks — corrected and
improved

Ten CSS tricks — corrected and
improved 09/08/2004 08:55 AM

Tantek Çelik offers his critique of Evolt's recent article "Ten CSS tricks you may not know" (via W ebStandards.org).

Servoy 2.1: over 50 new or improved
features

Servoy 2.1: over 50 new or improved
features 09/24/2004 03:36 AM
Servoy BV has released Servoy 2.1, an upgrade to the company's database development and deployment environment that offers over 50 new or improved features. Important additions to the software include localization tools that enable deploying one solution in multiple languages from the same server without added coding; Style Sheets, which use a syntax similar to cascading Style Sheets for a consistent look and feel across multiple solutions and servers; Type Ahead, which creates an ever-narrowing dropdown list of words or phrases as you type in a field, allowing you to make a selection when it appears; and more.

19-March-2003 -- The New and Improved
BBC News

19-March-2003 -- The New and Improved
BBC News 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
The New and Improved BBC News -- "When a user approaches an object such as light switch or a control...

57 Crown Courts now have improved
e-communications, 53 still to fix

57 Crown Courts now have improved
e-communications, 53 still to fix 04/16/2004 02:26 AM
PublicTechnology.net Apr 16 2004 7:14AM GMT

ATTO offers improved support for Mac OS
X

ATTO offers improved support for Mac OS
X 04/19/2004 06:55 AM
ATTO Technology today announced the availability of updated Mac OS X Panther drivers for its ExpressPCI Ultra320 and Ultra3 SCSI host adapters...

FTPDroplet II v2.1 offers improved
interface

FTPDroplet II v2.1 offers improved
interface 04/30/2004 03:27 AM
SubRosaSoft.com today announced the release of FTPDroplet II v2.1, the latest version of the company's easy-to-use utility for helping users upload files to Web servers (FTP Servers)...

HP Posts Improved Profit (Reuters)

HP Posts Improved Profit (Reuters) 05/18/2004 04:32 PM
Reuters - Computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday reported a rise in quarterly profits that tracked its previous forecasts on strong sales of servers, PCs and notebooks.

Improved 3G Wireless Application CPUs

Improved 3G Wireless Application CPUs 01/08/2004 08:38 PM
3G Jan 8 2004 5:24AM ET

Much improved bookmarklet - Wists, new
features

Much improved bookmarklet - Wists, new
features 03/14/2005 04:33 PM
Thanks to some fantastic work by Adam Michela at Axentric, there is a much improved 'add to Wists' bookmarklet which...

US considering improved anti-spyware
legislation

US considering improved anti-spyware
legislation 06/18/2004 12:57 PM
The US House of Representatives is slated to consider new laws that would require "spyware" makers to disclose the presence and function of their software more clearly to users.

Improved Popup Blocker Available for
Testing

Improved Popup Blocker Available for
Testing 04/01/2005 06:08 AM

Released Metabase greatly improved

Released Metabase greatly improved 01/16/2003 03:04 AM
Metabase is a popular PHP database abstraction package that lets developers write portable database applications. This means that Metabase makes it possible to write database applications that do not need to be changed to work with different databases. Currently, Metastorage generates the code of persistence layer APIs that is based on Metabase. The latest improvements in Metabase make it possible for Metastorage to generate more compact persistence APIs.

Improved lithium batteries in the near
future?

Improved lithium batteries in the near
future? 03/13/2003 10:20 AM

AMD benefits from improved pricing
structure

AMD benefits from improved pricing
structure 01/22/2004 11:03 PM
Computer Weekly Jan 23 2004 3:04AM GMT

Moving away from chaos toward improved
control

Moving away from chaos toward improved
control 04/23/2004 11:13 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Apr 24 2004 2:20AM GMT

AdWords Announce Improved Ad Relevancy

AdWords Announce Improved Ad Relevancy 06/30/2004 07:42 PM
"When broad matching it appears as if the overall minimum CTR will no longer be relevant. Instead, if you bid on widgets and only sell red widgets, you will probably find blue widgets getting automatically disabled but your ad still showing for red widgets."

New and improved ways to rot your kid's
brain!

New and improved ways to rot your kid's
brain! 09/08/2004 09:13 AM
A new study shows that kids who watch lots of TV ads are more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, stomachaches and other problems.

IBM rolls out 2 improved ThinkCentre PCs
for SMEs

IBM rolls out 2 improved ThinkCentre PCs
for SMEs 08/05/2004 01:56 AM
Deepika Global Aug 5 2004 5:57AM GMT
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