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DukeOfURL: Pogo’s Sub-$1000 Pentium 4 Linux Box [Linux Today]

Introduction to Network-Based Intrusion Detection Systems Using Snort (paper) [Security Focus]

Computerworld: Visa sets technical specifications for online authentication. Visa International Inc. this week announced the worldwide rollout of technical specifications designed to support payment authentication services for online credit card transactions while leaving retailers free to use their own mechanisms for processing payments. [Tomalak’s Realm]

Online Journalism Review: Content Management for the Masses. Some recent announcements by CMS providers signal particularly good things for the small publisher or lone journalist looking to enhance (or establish) their Web presence. If the current trend continues, low budget news sites soon could enjoy systems that rival the best money can buy today. [Tomalak’s Realm]

John Rhodes: “Microsoft doesn’t care much about shared source or Smart Tags and we are wasting our time following their marketing trail.”

Although Dave Winer seems to think that Microsoft "dropped a bombshell" with their .Net shared source announcement, I am not taking my eye off the ball. While we bow to Scoble because he figured everything out, I am not going to take my eye off the ball. While people flock to Slashdot to read the story and comment on it, I am not going to take my eye off the ball. While people continue to point to the original story on O’Reilly and shake their stunned heads, I am not going to take my eyes off the ball. 

Listen to me very closely. Shared source is trivial. Smart tags are trivial. No big deal. What does Microsoft want? Here is the mind bomb: Microsoft’s business model no longer revolves around software. Instead, it revolves around services, transactions, and extracting value from activity on the internet. 

[Scripting News]

Classic LDAP (April 1996): Doc Searls:
A Bulldozer Through the Intersection: Craig Burton on Netscape’s Directory Strategy
The Man Behind the Bulldozer: An Interview with Netscape’s Eric Hahn

Mike Duffy explains how to disable smart tags in Apache. [Scripting News]

ZDNet: Dept. of Defense Adopts StarOffice [via Slashdot]

Defective Sign & Encrypt in S/MIME, PKCS#7, MOSS, PEM, PGP, and XML (paper) [Security Focus]

ZDNet: by David Coursey, Executive Editor,Microsoft to me: We’re turning off your Office.

A funny thing happened on the way to PC Expo: Microsoft killed my copy of Office. Or at least that’s what the error message said, threatening me with something called “Reduced Functionality Mode” if I didn’t immediately insert my original Office disc and have my software reactivated.

“If you don’t perform the reactivation steps, Microsoft Office will go into Reduced Functionality Mode. In that mode you will not be able to save modifications to documents, or create a new document, and additional functionality may be reduced” said the “help” screen attached to the error message. (The error itself could not be copied and pasted so I didn’t save the exact language; I must say I was a little stunned).