Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
According to a tell tale list message from Ted Hardie (the IETF's AD for Applications), the IESG which is the governing body (somewhat) of the IETF, is leaning towards approval of both Sender-ID and SPF even though Sender-ID distorts the meaning of SPF records and results may differ. Their logic ...
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Friday, May 20th, 2005
While email authentication is no longer such hot topic as it was last year, nevertheless the two main proposals (SPF and Sender-ID) are moving slowly through the IETF process to become experimental protocols. Both just published new drafts (spf and sender-id [1], [2] and [3]). At the same time it ...
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
Slashdot posted a story about the approval of the new OpenDocument standard by OASIS. The actual standard is available in PDF and OpenOffice formats. The obvious focus of this activity is against Microsoft and ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog.)
Quite a few news outlets are carrying the story of Microsoft inventing a new technology called "Metro" intended to replace Adobe's PDF format. According to Microsoft Watch " Metro is a "new fixed ...
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Thursday, March 31st, 2005
Sometimes you can guess that a software product has become mainstream enough when a big company starts supporting it. I think this is exactly what just happened with FireFox: Google just announced support for "pre-fetching" - a feature ONLY available on Mozilla browsers. This is a refreshing breath of air ...
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
A news story and this post are talking about Microsoft's new technology for securing private data:
Microsoft in the coming months will roll out test versions of its latest operating system—code-named Longhorn—and its newest browser, which includes new approaches users can take to protect their identities online, safely swap data, and ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
I just ran across a blog post calling on Microsoft to reinstate support for VB6 syntax in VB.NET (via MS Watch). There is also a petition signed by multiple MVPs. Among the more interesting parts:
Worse, Microsoft broke the sacred trust of BASIC developers; something the company carefully cultivated since its ...
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
CNET is reporting from the RSA conference that there is going to be a new version of Internet Explorer out before Longhorn. Unfortunatly it will only run on Windows XP SP2 according to the article. The article also notes the competitive pressures from Firefox.
P.S. There is a related post on ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
While reading GrokLaw, I saw a link to an interesting opinion piece from Michael S. Malone titled "R.I.P. Microsoft?". Aside from the metaphysical approach of "smelling" the slow rot of a dying company he also makes points out some interesting signs that may be indicating Microsoft's coming demise:
Great, healthy companies ...
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Thursday, February 10th, 2005
After struggling for a few days to get this adapter to work, I was finally sucessful and am going to do a small writeup here to help others. I am running Fedora Core 2 with kernel v2.6.10-1.9_FC2 on Athlon 1Ghz with Wlan-NG v0.2.1-pre26.
The DLink DWL-122 USB 802.11b Adapter is based ...
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