Archive for the ‘arch’ Category.

TAXI to the Future

The Myth of 800×600

Web Review: The Myth of 800×600. Developing fixed-size Web pages is a fundamentally flawed practice. Not only does it result in Web pages that remain at a constant size regardless of the user’s browser size, but it fails to take advantage of the medium’s flexibility. Nonetheless, Web site creators continue to develop fixed pages. [Tomalak’s Realm]

Robert Scoble on Hailstorm

Robert Scoble: “This is how Microsoft defined HailStorm to the developers on March 15…”

See also:
Directory of HailStorm sites
  [Jake’s Brainpan]

Georgia Tech Implements Wireless Campus Net

Electronic Signatures

Electronic Signatures:

  • Larry Loeb: You can now use them in electronic transactions, but what exactly does that mean? [IBM DeveloperWorks]
  • Alston & Bird LLP:
    How the New E-Sign Act Will Affect E-Commerce [GigaLaw.com]

MIT: unsafe temporary file handling in Kerberos 4 and 5

New smartcard covers all security bases

Dave Winer: Internet 3.0 (Interoperation)

All you’ll have to do is emulate the functionality in other scripting environments. Then we’ll have a very important kind of interop, between writers on all these platforms. That’s when we become transparent, when the technology ceases to be the most interesting story, when we’re delivering benefits to real people. This is what Internet 3.0 is about. [Scripting News]

Dreez’s Microsoft’s PKI Single Sign-On Project (paper)