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Fernsehen (Dec 12 2002 08:57 GMT) - Durchblick |
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- Mathias dan Samuel saat ini sudah berada di Kupang dalam persiapan untuk menjalani pengobatan di RS Panti Rapih di Yogyakarta.... |
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- Well, we got a response note, and they didn't just agree to comply. Instead, actually, the author decided to deny any copying of code. But his hand is in the cookie jar. We know he is fully aware that he copied the code. We know he knows it was wrong to do so. |
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- I've read about it before, but now it's happening to me: somebody is infringing on the code for my GPL'ed DQSD project. Glenn Carr says that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but I'd really rather that the infringers stop. Here's what's happened so far. |
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- Why all the hype around Microsoft.NET? It's not just hype: it is Microsoft's response to a major shift in the software industry caused by a three-way Moore's Law crisis. I've written an article about the way I see things. |
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New Worm (Dec 12 2002 08:15 GMT) - This time I was the last to notice: at about 9:14 yesterday, my webservers started getting hit by a new worm. This one is again more virulent than the previous Code Red worms. Instead of hunting for one vulnerability, the new worm appears to exploit several vulnerabilities, including the ones opened up by Code Red II. |
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- I learned this morning that Ed Felt, one of my colleagues at BEA, died in the hijacked plane that crashed over Pennsylvania. I have to admit that when I first saw the disaster on TV yesterday morning, it was just another remote and strange media curiosity to me. But when I heard the news of Ed Felt's death, it hit very close to home. I lunched with Ed last Tuesday when he hosted my recent visit to BEA's New Jersey office, and he made an immediate connection with me. He was a smart and energetic engineer, and it was also clear that he was a real family man. |
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- The free Uptime service from ArsDigita is dead. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Uptime is (was) a great little free service by Phillip Greenspun that would periodically hit your website, and send you mail if it was down. It was nice to be notified, for example, when the power went out on my home webserver, or when I screwed up my router configuration. But recently I've taken down my websites several times without the familiar notification from Uptime. And today I just noticed after looking through my access logs that uptime hasn't been hitting my websites since August 6! |
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- Fed up with those popup ads? I am. The most popular popup squasher on Cnet's downloads.com is a free program called Popup Killer, by Xavier Flix Sanchez. It works. |
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- I visited Gary Burd last week, and we sifted through our access_logs and error_logs looking for anomalies. Our conclusion: there are several programs that are scanning the internet - both our servers, anyway - from China. The scans seem harmless, but they could be used to collect information to launch future attacks. Could this be Chinese government funded activity? |
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- I've been trying to improve the Realtime Javascript Editor by adding basic computer programming examples: "Hello world", "Prime number sieve", "Temperature converter", "Digits of pi", "Guess a number", and "Line drawing". For that last thing I had to look for a way of doing line art inside Internet Explorer. It turns out that it's possible, but not widely used. Have you ever heard of the Microsoft Structured Graphics control? |
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- Inspired by Dave's reminisces, David talks about one of his favorite old computer games, which is also about programming. Even though it's from 1985, it's a great game, and even better, you can still play it through the magic of emulation. |
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