Active Content: Really Neat Technology or Impending Disaster
Charlie Kaufman, Iris Associates:
Active Content: Really Neat Technology or Impending Disaster (AUDIO):
an amusing one-hour talk about how bad it is
Archive for December 2001
Creating the Next-Generation IS Organization
Gartner: Creating the Next-Generation IS Organization
(Goodhue, Chris)
[Requires direct access to Gartner web site.
Within UR, contact me for a copy of this presentation.]
OPML is going to be as big or bigger as anything we’ve done at UserLand, including SOAP, XML-RPC and RSS
Dave Winer, Scripting News:
BTW, I promise you, OPML is going to be as big or bigger as anything we’ve done at UserLand, including SOAP, XML-RPC and RSS. It’s a source of cold water and it’s killer. We have the hot water to balance it, I hope, if not, Omni might be a good bet, or JOE. See how it works? Users who have choice move. Users who are locked in wait. I don’t care how big you are, you’re still in the same ecosystem.
Troubleshooting L2TP/IPSec VPN connections in Win2K
TechRepublic:
Troubleshooting L2TP/IPSec VPN connections in Win2K
Working with Windows 2000’s L2TP/IPSec VPN connections is a whole different ball game from managing PPTP. Take a look at these valuable tips for troubleshooting L2TP/IPSec issues.
Red Hat suite makes e-commerce easy
TechRepublic:
Red Hat suite makes e-commerce easy
Red Hat’s E-Commerce Suite includes all the tools necessary to quickly and easily allow small to medium-size organizations to open an online store for their products or services. See what it can do and how it stacks up.
Universities in NY, Netherlands Targeted in Warez Raids
Universities in NY, Netherlands Targeted in Warez Raids
[CNET article] [CNET article]
The US Justice Department and international law enforcement agencies
last week seized over 130 computers belonging to suspected software
pirates around the world. Many of the people targeted in the raids
have been providing law enforcement officials with information that
has resulted in additional search warrants. The Rochester Institute of
Technology and the University of Twente in Hilversum, the Netherlands
were both targets in the raids.
simple tool to disable Universal Plug & Play in XP
Steve Gibson has just released a simple tool that allows anyone — no
matter how junior and inexperienced — to quickly disable or enable
the Universal Plug & Play Internet server that runs by default —
even after applying Microsoft’s patch — in every copy of Windows XP.
pushback re Boingo
“I’ve received a fair amount of pushback on my Boingo article from Wednesday from readers and fellow Webloggers on how superfluous Boingo seems. Why not just do what they’re doing in software via a browser window, they ask? Why lock into a specific proprietary software package thus creating the potential for a non-standard network?…”
Application Single-Sign On: Netegrity, Securant, or Evidian?
Application Single-Sign On: Netegrity, Securant, or Evidian?
-by L. Taylor
As security breaches become increasingly more frequent, minimizing user
access to back-end systems and web applications without impacting
legitimate usage is more important than ever before.
wireless deforming event
| This is a nice scoop by Glenn, who calls it a “transforming event.” WiFi everywhere, thanks to Earthlink and it’s Boingo Wireless spin-off. But::::: only for Windows clients: |
| By requiring client software, initially available only for Windows, Boingo offers a variety of features in one bundle: single user login, WEP key management, Wi-Fi network profile management, preferred network priority, VPN (virtual private network) service to Boingo’s public servers, quality of service (QoS) tracking, and connection logging. |
| Boingo also throws in authenticated SMTP mail service, which allows outbound email service anywhere on the Internet. |
| Excuse me for saying this truly sucks. |
| This launch will most likely transform Wi-Fi public space access from a niche market to a national infrastructure and hasten the integration with cellular networks. |
| No, it will create a big private WiFi space for Boingo customers with special client software that only Boingo provides. |
| What’s wrong with the way WayPort and MobileStar and the others do it now (including whatever the outfit is that provides service at Mariott hotels), which is with DHCP and a browser-based sales & authentication scheme? With those guys you just set your laptop (or whatever) up for wireless DHCP, fire up a browser, go through a pay-in and/or login routine (if you’re already paid up) in your browser window, and bang: you’re on the Net, ready to do whatever you like (including your own damn SMTP and POP mail). |
| Here’s what’s wrong with it: there’s no lock-in. It’s just a service. And if you’re AOL or Microsoft or Earthlink, it isn’t enough just to provide a service. You need to own the user by owning the client. The user is a steer that isn’t yours without your brand on its hide. |
| These guys still see the Net as nothing more than a convenient transport system for their own private online services. They constantly want to to fence off their own green pastures in the midst of the Net’s wide open spaces. And they think they can only do that with a locked-in client: |
| A Macintosh version of the connection software is planned for 2002, but the company did not want to issue a prediction for delivery. (Dayton himself is a committed Macintosh user.) |
| I’m a Mac user too. Also Linux. But so the fuck what? Why should the system care? The client shouldn’t matter. If it can connect by DHCP over a WiFi link and run a browser, it should be ready to use the Web anywhere, anytime. Earthlink deserves good PR for rolling out a big-ass WiFi service. They deserve a chorus of raspberries for making it a lock-in strategy. |
