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Tuesday, June 26
I guess I should update this page every now and then. Not a lot of interesting articles going on - I think lots of the tech people are on vacation this week!
Friday, June 22
The Sexiest Geek Contest winner
Your server slow? Out of space? Maybe your boss has filled it with porn
Watch how you dial long distance with your computer!
Using a supercomputer to design a better engine
The Apple I Owner's Club - an excellent resource for the early Apple I computer
Happy fifth birthday, Quake! Me, I was a Doom fan.
Check out the weekly usage graph. There is a story I will tell you about!
Developers cannot use open-source software in conjunction with Microsoft programming tools.
Didja patch your NT/W2K/XP server?
Have a cable modem from Cox? Did you read this announcement in athome.announce yesterday?
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:48:06 GMT
From: Newsgroup Policy Specialist <athome-news@corp.home.net>
Newsgroups: athome.announce
Followup-To: athome.discussion-athomesvc
Subject: Discontinued Newsgroups
Do to violations of the DCMA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) the
Usenet newsgroups listed below are being discontinued from the
Excite@Home news feed.
They are being removed from all of the news servers nationally ASAP.
alt.binaries.hustler
alt.binaries.playgirl
alt.binaries.penthouse
alt.binaries.movies
alt.binaries.pictures.centerfolds.playboy
alt.binaries.movies.divx
alt.binaries.movies.purity
alt.binaries.movies.shadowrealm
alt.binaries.movies.shadowrealm.repost
alt.binaries.movies.mirage-mrg
Thursday, June 21
Teens use instant messenging instead of the phone
The new TLD .biz is now ready to be issued (sort of)
Britney's Guide To Hacking Windows NT
Wednesday, June 20
Drive a rental car, speed, get huge tickets - due to GPS!
Monday, June 18
Saturday/Sunday, June 16/17
Microsoft and AOL - talks break down over whether Windows XP will have AOL support.
Friday, June 15
Women talk more on the phone at home, but men are 35% more likely to talk on cell phones.
Harris Poll Online - Internet Usage Survey Results. Log in with the userID of 14397 and the password is results to view.
Thursday, June 14
The roots of packet-switching networks
Tuesday, June 12
Redundancy! As we speak I am copying the website to a secondary location - surf on over to http://www.tbegley.com/mba553 to find a mirror. Monday afternoon the secondary hard drive on Eden died, so the server was down Monday night and up and down on Tuesday morning as I did some upgrades while I replaced the drive.
Risks Digest 21 #44 and Risks Digest 21 #45
NEW CORPORATE SOFTWARE SEARCHES EVERYWHERE -- EVEN PERSONAL HARD DRIVES
New productivity software from AltaVista will allow companies to collect data from
anywhere in the organization: including not only corporate networks but also individual
e-mail accounts and employee PCs. The software is able to search through more than 200
different computer applications and recognize 30 different languages. Privacy advocates
are worried. Attorney Gregg Williams says: "This could open a real Pandora's Box.
There are some private things on office computers that you really don't want to know
about." And Richard Smith of the Privacy Foundation says the software is "really
dangerous" and warns that it "would hurt both companies and their employees by
damaging morale." But Dana Gardner of the Aberdeen Group has little use for such
concerns: "For every person that gets a little embarrassed because some personal
information gets passed around the office, there are going to be more people who are able
to find important information that helps them close a sale with an important customer or
build a better mousetrap." (AP/Washington Post 12 Jun 2001)
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/latestap/A54075-2001Jun12.html
SCHOOLS ADOPT HIGH-TECH ANTI-CHEATING TOOLS
Secondary and post-secondary schools are increasingly trying to defeat high-tech
cheaters by using high-tech tools to search out plagiarism, exam manipulation, and other
forms of dishonesty. Some examples: software from turnitin.com will be used at 1,800
schools to compare term papers with text on the Internet and in publications; more than
100 schools will use software that prevents students from using e-mail or the Web to cheat
on computer-based tests; national testing centers will use thumbprint scanners and digital
cameras to monitor students and prevent imposters from taking tests under other names. The
tools seem to work: an anti-plagiarism service tested at UCLA this year detected
"significant instances of plagiarism" in student papers and lab reports
submitted. (USA Today 11 Jun 2001)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-06-11-tech-tools-nab-cheaters.htm
INTEL ANNOUNCES BREAKTHROUGH ON SMALLER TRANSISTORS
Intel, under perpetual pressure to pack more processing power on each
chip, has announced a technological breakthrough that will allow it to do
just that. The latest achievement harnesses the power of extreme
ultraviolet lithography to create transistors just 20 billionths of a meter
thick, potentially enabling the company to produce microprocessors with a
billion transistors each. The new transistors, which Intel expects to
integrate into commercial chip production in 2007, are 33% smaller and 25%
faster than those announced by the company in December. (Bloomberg/Los
Angeles Times 11 Jun 2001)
http://www.latimes.com/business/20010611/t000048623.html
Sunday, June 10
America Express' expert system - article we talked about in class this weekend
"Finding Fences in Cyberspace: Privacy and Open Access on the Internet"
This coming week:
1. Join the class listserv (explained on Friday)
2. Email me your research paper topic for approval
For next class on Friday:
1. Read some stuff
2. Have a tech tip ready (and for one on Sat)
3. Turn in midterm exam
Before the First Class - Friday, June 8
Have you joined our class mailing list? Everyone needs to do so! Send a message to majordomo@creighton.edu, with a blank subject, and the body of the message saying subscribe mba553 and you will be added to the list.
University computers are prime targets for hackers
Larry Sheldon is coming to speak on Tuesday. Here, in a
rare picture of Larry, he is standing in front of the telephone wiring and switches.
Bonus trivia question: Where was this picture taken?
For those of you that didn't know the change in our Internet connection that happened last October 2000, here is a graphic that shows the difference. When we get into the networking chapter, we will discuss this in more depth. Thanks to Jay Langhurst for this graphic.
