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Wise Package Studio: How to Create
Package Upgrades
Wise Package Studio: How to Create
Package Upgrades
08/19/2004 10:46 PMDDL West Package Engineer Named VP &
Treasurer of New IOPP Chapter - Package
Testing Lab Helps Form Southern
California Division
DDL West Package Engineer Named VP &
Treasurer of New IOPP Chapter - Package
Testing Lab Helps Form Southern
California Division
06/24/2005 03:35 PMDDL West today announced that Package Engineer, Michael Foster, has
been appointed Vice President and Treasurer of the new Southern
California chapter of the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IOPP).
[PRWEB Jun 23, 2005]
Wireless Media Hubs Experience Zero Gs
Wireless Media Hubs Experience Zero Gs
04/21/2004 11:29 AMGearBits sets a not-so-lofty goal for Wireless Media Hubs (integrated
Screen, MP3 and internet radio streaming, and 802.11g) and finds no
device quite cuts the mustard. Some get awfully close, including Slim
Devices' Squeezebox, but the lack of 802.11g in all the devices (if
they even have WiFi in the...
BitTorrent hubs close after ISP raid
BitTorrent hubs close after ISP raid
03/19/2005 03:07 AMZDNet Mar 18 2005 6:15PM GMT
Sorting in XSLT
Sorting in XSLT
07/03/2002 05:15 PMIn this month's Transforming XML column, Bob DuCharme explains the
various uses of
xsl:sort, including sort ordering, multiple
keys, and reversing the sort.
Better Spam Sorting?
Better Spam Sorting?
09/23/2004 11:18 AMJeremy Wagstaff has written about a new kind of anti-spam system that
judges the likelihood of spam on the "reliability of the sender."
That is, they look at who sent the email and look at factors like how
long the domain has been around, the relationship between the server
and the domain and other aspects to determine the likelihood of spam.
Of course, with most spam coming from spoofed email addresses
information about the domain may not be all that useful -- but I would
guess that's why they look at the relationship between the server and
the domain. Whether or not it works, there is another, more
interesting, concept brought up by this service. One of the things
they do is hold back any suspicious emails, but once a day will send
an email listing all of the held emails, color coding the held
messages and grouping similar addresses together. Most (though, not
all) anti-spam systems tend to simply lump all spam into a spam folder
in the order received. One area that many people have suggested needs
improvement is email inbox management. So, I'm wondering if, rather
than just as an anti-spam system, this type of technology may find its
way into the inbox for better prioritizing legitimate emails. A few
companies have tried email prioritization systems, and they usually
fail -- either because they don't work very well or because people are
simply used to their own manual systems for email prioritization, and
it's not easy to get people to change. So, it may be interesting to
see if a technology that figures out a better way to prioritize spam
could eventually cross over to prioritizing legitimate emails as well.
Sorting out SSL VPNs
Sorting out SSL VPNs
12/02/2003 02:33 PMNetwork Computing reviews eight SSL-based VPNs: SSL VPNs are an
enormous trend, as they rely on client-side applications using
standard protocols instead of kernel-level networking. As the article
points out, a classic VPN puts a remote user on a local network as a
local node; an SSL VPN typically extends access to specific services.
Unfortunately, Network Computing finds that only one out of its eight
products can be set up and configured in a way that they find useful
and secure for setup and data transmission. Because wireless roaming
users need VPNs to secure their connection, this article should be
required reading for any IT department on the decision path for
installing a VPN service....
Sorting the E-Mail
Sorting the E-Mail
04/09/2004 03:59 PMArchiving products are bringing order to unstructured data.
Sorting in XSLT (XML.com)
Sorting in XSLT (XML.com)
07/09/2002 11:19 AMMedia Hubs Bridge PC, Living Room Gap
(AP)
Media Hubs Bridge PC, Living Room Gap
(AP)
06/25/2004 10:06 AMAP - You've got hours of home movies, thousands of songs and countless
digital pictures on the PC in the den. But the best places for
watching and listening — the big television and stereo — are
in the living room at the other end of the house.
Media Hubs: Not Ready for Prime Time
Media Hubs: Not Ready for Prime Time
04/29/2004 09:05 AMLab supply firm VWR expands into pharma
hubs
Lab supply firm VWR expands into pharma
hubs
04/05/2005 07:50 PMLabTechnologist.com Apr 5 2005 11:12PM GMT
RoamPoint, iPass Serve as Roaming Hubs
RoamPoint, iPass Serve as Roaming Hubs
04/28/2004 11:40 AMRoamPoint entered the hotspot resale market in early April in a sea of
confusion: Wi-Fi Networking News recently talked to Leon de Beer,
director of RoamPoint, as well as iPass, a potential RoamPoint
competitor, to straighten out some of the confusion. RoamPoint was
started by de Beer and some colleagues who identified the need for a
process that makes it easier for hotspot operators to handle the
necessary backend support behind roaming agreements, such as
authenticating users across networks and tracking usage across roaming
networks. The Cloud, a UK hotspot operator, was thinking along the
same lines at the same time. "What we've done is use some of The Cloud
facilities to kick start this project and we’re now in the process of
spinning it out of The Cloud," de Beer said. The Cloud is currently
the majority shareholder in RoamPoint, but de Beer said both entities
are hoping to change that soon. "For us, it's really important to be
seen as an independent entity not closely associated with one
network," de Beer said. Intel is involved with RoamPoint in a
co-marketing relationship. Plus, RoamPoint customers must be validated
through the Intel Centrino verified hotspot network operators program.
RoamPoint hopes to serve as a hub and clearinghouse for hotspot
operators and service providers. "We'll deal with the technology and
you concentrate on the commercial," de Beer tells potential customers.
The RoamPoint hub offers several services to operators. When a
customer accesses a hotspot using their home network's or aggregator's
login information, their authentication request passes through the
RoamPoint platform. RoamPoint doesn't handle the authentication, but
it verifies if the user is authorized to access that hotspot through a
roaming agreement the customer's operator has with the hotspot. If the
customer is authorized to access the hotspot, RoamPoint passes the
authentication request on to the customer’s operator, where the
customer is authenticated. Because RoamPoint will know which method
each of its operator customers uses to authenticate users, RoamPoint
can also serve as a central point of information for its customers.
Before a hotspot operator approaches another operator about a
potential roaming agreement, RoamPoint can identify for its customers
which other operators in the network can support their authentication
method. RoamPoint also does network monitoring and collects data about
all the hotspots of its customers. "We need to make sure that the
service provider can tell customers which hotspots should be
working....
A proposal for Wifi-hubs to be built
into landlines...
A proposal for Wifi-hubs to be built
into landlines...
07/11/2004 06:19 PMSo I've been thinking a lot about ubiquitous home networks
recently, and the ways in which various appliances might start hooking
up to the internet and through the internet to other people - social
hardware if you will - and the problem keeps coming back to how you
introduce the network into the home in the first place. There needs to
be a way of wrapping all the core parts of a home in a network without
it being something that requires complex set-up and specialised
hardware. It also seems to me that the key to true ubiquity is to
detach the networking completely from a its current reliance on a
computer. Your home network of the future should not require a
perpetually-on computer in a cupboard. Your gran should be able to
have the benefits of internet enabled appliances without having to
figure out the configuration of modems and puzzle their way through a
complex OS-based interface.
And if - as I assume - we're talking about wrapping the home in a
wireless network, then it also seems to me that we should be
looking for a way to do all this without introducing lots more widgets
and boxes and cables around the place. Ideally - we would also try and
avoid having little appliances stuck into random power supplies around
the house (unless of course we can take them in a different direction
and use them as control nodes as well as bridges cf. Airport Express - but
more on that kind of paradigm another time). Essentially, we need a
model in which home, net-enabled networks are treated more like a
utility than a technology - more like water or electricity provision
than ...
Okay - so now we've got the criteria in place, how should we go
about making this wifi-enabled network space? Probably the place to
start is at the bridge between the appliance (including potentially a
computer) and the network. Since these appliance could be in pretty
much every room, then the first thing we're going to need is a series
of wifi points littered around the premises. These ideally would cover
the entire home, but if they couldn't cover it completely they'd have
to be in key areas like kitchens, studies, sitting rooms, bedrooms and
the like. They would not be as useful initially in storage
areas, hallways, lavatories, bathrooms or on stairs - although clearly
it would be an advantage if the bled into those areas. These points
need to be powered in some way and they'd presumably need to connect
with one another as wifi bridges. One of these appliances has to be
able to connect to the internet. More than likely they'll do this via
the telecommunications grid through a phone socket. And then there
will have to be some kind of interface for setting up the connection
and protecting it with some kind of password, encrypted and
connectable to by some kind of industry standard protocol. This
interface would not need to do anything else, but conceivably
could do...
So here's my contention. Given that it would seem to be a good
thing to split the provision of wireless network access from
computers, and given that we'll still need an interface and given that
we need a point in all the core rooms of a home and given that we need
to connect this network to the telephone network in some way -
isn't the telephone itself the ideal appliance to be the heart of
the home network? Unlike the television or the radio or the
stereo, any place in a home where people are likely to spend a lot of
time is likely to have a telephone point in or near it. They have
small interfaces on them already - a numeric keypad for one and often
a small LCD screen for recording input, and they're already connected
physically to the telephone network.
So here's what I'm thinking - and forgive the slightly ugly 80s
styling of the phone itself. I tried to do something beautiful and
isometric but it came out looking really nasty. So we make do with
gradient fills and basic Illustrator shapes...
So the ADSL modem and wifi antenna/bridge/hub are both included
within the device. This means that in terms of buying a wifi network
for your house, all you have to do is purchase the phone and plug it
into a phone socket. By sticking an Ethernet port into the base of the
phone you could immediately use it to connect to printers or any
non-wifi enabled networkable device. If you bought a second phone,
however, it would operate like a wifi bridge (there's already
considerable precedent for hubs also acting as bridges - with the
Airport Extreme being the most recent example), extending the network
around the home. If ADSL modems did not reduce significantly in cost,
then perhaps you could remove that from the additional phone units,
creating master and slave phones, each of which could be strung
together to extend the network still further. If ADSL modems came down
in price, however, it might be useful to build them into all the
devices - allowing each phone unit to negotiate with the other phones
as to when it should become the dominant provider of access to the
internet (ie. if the connection broke down or if it became clear that
one phone could provide more throughput because of the local quality
of the line or intra-phone connectivity). Either way, you'd expect the
network to self-organise purely by bringing a new phone home and
plugging it into a socket. The blue-lines in the following image would
be self-organising connections between phones based upon proximity and
strength of signal:
So now we have a wifi network in the home, where all you'd need to
do to extend the network is purchase a phone and plug it in. And we
have a number of devices capable of connecting to the web. Except
we've left out questions of user names / passwords / encryptions and
the like. Since we're talking of this service as a utility, then the
most obvious way of handling it would seem to me to be to get your
ADSL along with your telephony from the same operator. Since the
operators already know the telephone number that the phone is plugged
into (and will know this whenever you use a phone on that network) it
seems most obvious to consider that telephone number to be your user
name for connectivity and the name of the local network. This would
mean that when the phone was initially connected it could attempt to
connect immediately to the operator. At this stage the operator (or
the phone) could generate a numeric key with which to access the
network. All you'd have to do is plug the phone in and then ring up
your operator. Since they already have security provisions in place to
help identify a caller, they could easily determine that a user was
legitimate and give out an initial code which said user could then use
to login to the network.
In practice this would mean the entire process to set up the
network was to plug in the phone, ring an activation number and get
your code, hang up and type in the number. Any other phones you wanted
to connect would just require you to plug them into the mains and type
in the activation number. And then to login from any device all you'd
have to do is connect to the network which was called your home phone
number (Network Name: 020 7286 ####) using (again) the
activation number. Piece of cake!
The process would have other possibilities too. By using a numeric
key rather than an alphanumeric key you immediately open up the number
of devices that can be easily set up to use the network. Numeric
keypads are far more common than full text input devices and
faster to use. It would take no time at all to connect your mobile
phone, television, DVD player, Tivo, Radio, CD player, tape deck and
computer to such a network. But that's just the beginning. Radio Alarm
clocks have keypads, Microwave ovens have key pads. In fact the
only electrical things that I can see around me in my flat that don't
immediately present some kind of numeric interface are my lights,
iPod, digital camera, kettle, X-box, toaster and oven - and four of
those have an interface that would allow you to choose numerals in
different ways.
So that's the concept in a nutshell. I can see some problems with
it with regard to the separation of telecommunications services and
the necessary connections that you might need to make between hardware
and service providers that might make the whole thing unfeasible. I'm
also more than aware that there have been explorations about ways of
connecting telephones and connectivity elsewhere - some of which no
doubt overlaps, encompasses or surpasses my thoughts - and no doubt
I've made a few errors through the piece as well, but nonetheless I
thought it was an interesting enough idea to push out into the real
world and to receive feedback around. And that's what I'm after now -
please feel free to leave any thoughts, fixes, suggestions or
extensions below or write a post and trackback to this one, so any
interested parties can follow the discussion (if there is any) more
easily...
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Media hubs bridge gap between PC, living
room
Media hubs bridge gap between PC, living
room
06/23/2004 08:43 PMSan Jose Mercury News Jun 24 2004 0:17AM GMT
Media Hubs Bridge PC, Living Room Gap
Media Hubs Bridge PC, Living Room Gap
06/25/2004 01:33 PMAP via Newsday Jun 25 2004 5:08PM GMT
Sorting Out Yahoo's SiteMatch
Sorting Out Yahoo's SiteMatch
04/26/2004 09:42 PMISEDB Apr 27 2004 1:55AM GMT
KlustaKwik spike sorting
KlustaKwik spike sorting
11/15/2003 05:40 PMRelease 1.6
Sorting through dyslexia (USATODAY.com)
Sorting through dyslexia (USATODAY.com)
08/10/2004 07:11 AMUSATODAY.com - Linda Hendrickson remembers how paralyzed with fear she
felt when asked to read aloud as a child.
Kozoru, The First True Hubs and
Authorities Search Engine?
Kozoru, The First True Hubs and
Authorities Search Engine?
09/24/2004 11:38 AMKozoru search engine still in the alpha building stages, but sounds
like it will be the internets first true Klienberg Hubs and
Authorities based search engine.
HP Aims at Living Room with TVs, Media
Hubs (Reuters)
HP Aims at Living Room with TVs, Media
Hubs (Reuters)
01/05/2005 01:36 AMReuters - Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co.
is pushing aggressively into television sales this year
as it rolls out full lines of TVs, projectors, and home media
servers, Chief Executive Carly Fiorina said on Tuesday.
Simulation-Automate-1.0.1
Simulation-Automate-1.0.1
08/13/2004 05:50 PMSimulation-Automate-1.0.0
Simulation-Automate-1.0.0
01/05/2004 11:07 AMDell counts on new support hubs to
improve service delivery
Dell counts on new support hubs to
improve service delivery
09/09/2004 04:53 PMDell Inc. plans to open several Enterprise Command Centers during the
next few months in a bid to improve its service delivery to customers
worldwide.
Dell hopes support hubs will improve
service delivery
Dell hopes support hubs will improve
service delivery
09/10/2004 11:16 AMDell Inc. is pushing ahead with plans to open IT support hubs
worldwide to improve its service delivery to buyers of its servers,
storage devices and workstations. Although the hubs are aimed
primarily at enterprise customers, they will also cover consumers and
small and midsize businesses.
U.S. Warns of Attacks on Asia Shipping,
Finance Hubs (Reuters)
U.S. Warns of Attacks on Asia Shipping,
Finance Hubs (Reuters)
04/22/2004 04:00 AMReuters - U.S. officials warned Asia
on Thursday to be on guard against terror attacks in crowded
sea lanes and in financial centers such as Hong Kong.
Flash and Shockwave: Sorting Out the
Differences
Flash and Shockwave: Sorting Out the
Differences
07/31/2004 05:41 PM"Some get confused between Macromedia Flash and Macromedia Shockwave."
Sorting things out: Classification and
its consequences
Sorting things out: Classification and
its consequences
11/14/2003 11:26 AMHTML Tip: Sorting With The OPTGROUP
Element
HTML Tip: Sorting With The OPTGROUP
Element
10/27/2002 03:59 AMNet Mechanic Oct 27 2002 1:38AM ET
SCO and Microsoft: Sorting the fact from
the fiction
SCO and Microsoft: Sorting the fact from
the fiction
01/04/2005 01:08 PMZDNet Jan 4 2005 5:12PM GMT
Brits Want Sperm Sorting Regulated
Brits Want Sperm Sorting Regulated
11/11/2003 09:09 PMCBS News Nov 11 2003 8:11PM ET
"Sorting out the "imminent threat"
debate"
"Sorting out the "imminent threat"
debate"
11/04/2003 09:28 PMIntel wants to automate your home
Intel wants to automate your home
11/14/2003 10:21 AMChina Daily Nov 14 2003 8:54AM ET
An AppleScript to automate SSH -X
forwarding
An AppleScript to automate SSH -X
forwarding
04/21/2004 11:29 AMI'm running a Linux server in my home network that I connect to
several times during the day. Sometimes I connect just to look at
logs, and other times to run X programs, forwarding the display to my
G5 using the ssh -x opt...
Automate Your PHP Site Using CRON
Automate Your PHP Site Using CRON
11/27/2002 09:47 PMLearn how to execute your PHP scripts using CRON by set time intervals
that you choose.
Automate backups on Linux
Automate backups on Linux
07/12/2004 08:53 AMSpinsanity - Sorting out the "imminent
threat" debate
Spinsanity - Sorting out the "imminent
threat" debate
11/05/2003 07:30 AManalysis and critique .. SpinSanity stumbled .. Imminent Threat ..
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Aggregating Mail Lists, Sorting by Topic
Aggregating Mail Lists, Sorting by Topic
05/12/2004 06:54 PMThe disintegration of e-mail under the corrosive effects of spam
has led many people, including me, to assume that mail lists are next
to useless as ways to get information out to people. After all, spam
filters trap lots of legitimate mail, and who has time to subscribe to
and then read all the junk that comes in on various lists, however
useful they might be.
Zack Rosen just showed me a new project he and Neil Drumm have been
working on, and I'm impressed. It's called Progressive Pipes, and it
aggregates a bunch of progressive and left-leaning lists into an
easy-to-peruse collection of "headlines," namely the subject lines.
(Rosen and Drumm both developed technology for the Howard Dean
presidential campaign and are now working to bring collaborative tools
to a wider activist community.)
Progressive Pipes breaks the messages down in several ways, including
list names and topics. Among the latter, for example, are "Beat Bush" and
"Civil
Liberties" among others. Even better, you can subscribe to the
site and its sub-categories as RSS feeds.
While this is a targeted site -- aimed at one side of the political
spectrum -- there's no reason that such an application couldn't be
done for any kind of mailing list on any kind of topic.
This is clever, and useful.
Automate Backups on Network Using RSync
Automate Backups on Network Using RSync
05/12/2004 02:27 PMGrok Description matches for DHL to automate three package-sorting hubs
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