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IBM Takes On Sun Cobalt http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/2002/ibm_hostapp.html The IBM e-Server xSeries Hosting Appliance includes up to 40 pre-loaded applications and operates on Red Hat’s Linux platform. Add in Sphera’s Hosting Director and IBM has built an offer worthy of the Sun.

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I certainly wouldn’t mind having a cheap Xterm/toy box subsidized by microsoft. OK now you are going to tell me they don’t have VGA outputs or ethernet? Actually, there is a project to put Apache and/or Linux on an XBox (imagine cheap clusters of XBoxen running Apache as your web solution 😉 Im inspired enough

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Does a posting to which you are not permitted to respond, have any real meaning or use whatsoever?

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we ought to write an april 1st RFC for a new service – call it HACKPORT or similar – that you can connect to and have it advertise a list of hackable TCP/UDP ports and services hosted on the machine. this should – if made mandatory – have the beneficial effect of negating all these

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Ah, young love! http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=830368

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http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/11/020411hnwebservices.xml MICROSOFT, IBM, AND Verisign have devised a way to add integrity- and confidentiality-checking capabilities to upcoming Web services applications, a first step in a broader joint effort to secure Web services, the companies said Thursday. The jointly developed specification, dubbed WS-Security, defines a set of SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) extensions and describes how

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24902.html Swedish security researcher Andreas Sandblad has discovered that the MS Internet Explorer history list allows JavaScript in the URLs. The code will execute in the same zone as the last URL visited, which in the case of the error page generated by IE is the local computer zone. Thus when an error page is

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i’ve just reinvented XML and updated my previous blog entries to use new pseudoformatting statements, that get turned into “real” HTML. not perfect, but it will do until i solve it properly. i don’t suppose that people could suggest a non-condescending route to learning stylesheets, which would help me solve the same problem?

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one more rant finished. time to go home. one of these days i will work out how to get out of the office before 1930h, though i admit 2130h is a bit more extreme than usual. i was meant to be having an old friend from college visit me for the first time in 15+

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i’ll never have to spend time writing a monthly report ever again.

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many people have asked me how my recent trip to bletchley park went. i went up there on my motorbike, met with bart and went round the site, finishing up having the bizzare experience of bart and me helping some geeks in the park’s computer conservation museum who were wiring an ASR33 teletype up to

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i make no guarantees as to the veracity of information enclosed in this webpage nor to my ability to spell correctly or get grammar right. this is all a bit ad-hoc, fast and loose and meant to be no more than 90% right at any one time.

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