Archive for April 2001

PullRSS 1.0 – RSS to HTML Converter

PullRSS 1.0 – RSS to HTML Converter. Display news on your site with our newest open source script. PullRSS is a flexible template-based RSS to HTML converter, with optional redirects for tracking clickthroughs. By Dan Ragle. 0403 [WebReference News]

RSS/Syndication 101

RSS/Syndication 101: sources of syndicated information.

Doctor’s Guide: It’s in the Eyes

Doctor’s Guide: It’s in the Eyes. It’s more distracting, doctors say, to perform delicate surgery while constantly having to read information on a computer. That’s why they like a new device than scans the info directly onto the retina. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

Flaw In Popular Wireless Standard

Flaw In Popular Wireless Standard : The flaws could make it possible for an intruder who is physically close to a wireless computer network to masquerade as a legitimate user in a supposedly private network. (New York Times) [Applesurf]

Tech Law Journal’s emailed newsletter started misspelling words to get around filters

The NYTimes reports that the Tech Law Journal’s emailed newsletter started misspelling words to get around filters at “law firms, universities or government agencies.”
[via Slashdot]

Low-Bandwidth Set-top Codec in Trials

A Busy Developer’s Guide to SOAP 1.1

Dave Winer and Jake Savin:
A Busy Developer’s Guide to SOAP 1.1
This document describes a subset of SOAP 1.1 that forms a basis for easy interoperation between different environments.

The Replay TV incident is different

AskTog: Replay TV. The Replay TV incident is different: users never requested a sharp reduction in the functionality of their machines, no notice was given that the machines would be downgraded in this way, and the users had no way of avoiding the damage that was done. [Tomalak’s Realm]

IE Hole: A Glitch With the Patch

IE Hole: A Glitch With the Patch. Microsoft wasted little time posting a patch to a potentially devastating hole on certain versions of its browser. But many who tried to download it got an incorrect error message. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

MS01-020: Incorrect MIME Header Can Cause IE to Execute E-mail Attachment