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Webmonkey Looks at Log Analysers Compares WebTrends, SawMill, Analog, etc… “First up in the free software world is Analog, the program that claims to be the `most popular log file analyzer in the world.’ That may be true, but how does it stand up against the competition? Very well, it turns out. ”
[via ZopeNewbies]

XML FAQ 2.0 in preview. Peter Flynn announced a preview release of version 2.0 of Frequently Asked Questions about the Extensible Markup Language. [xmlhack]

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Don’t leave home without it.

It can be ignored/overridden by IE6, however.

Microsoft has third go at Exchange hole. IDG Jun 14 2001 3:10PM ET [Computer security news]

Information Week: Busier Networks Create Smoother Traffic Flow, Says Bell Labs. Conventional wisdom held that the busiest networks would experience even more “bursty” behavior, requiring larger packet buffers to help Internet routers manage traffic volatility. But Bell Labs’ research shows the opposite is true: High-capacity networks have more regular traffic. [Tomalak’s Realm]

Smashing the SSL Speed Trap. Network Computing Jun 12 2001 5:52AM ET [Computer security news]

Business News from Wired News – My Shoe Size? It’ll Cost You.

Companies are willing to pay big money to learn the juicy tidbits of your life, including your preferred brand of toilet paper or whether you smear your bagels with butter or cream cheese.

The problem is, they’re not paying you.

A new website hopes to remedy this situation by allowing consumers to sell their personal data directly to advertisers.

[ … ]

Coyle plans to charge advertisers 14 cents to access each member’s 1,300-question profiles and 25 cents to send members e-mails, which are routed through her site to avoid their resale. And like any good businesswoman, she’ll keep a cut of the profit for herself.

There are other sites offering opt-in e-mail services where members sign up to receive spam from selected advertisers or get prizes for clicking on banner ads or websites. One even announced plans to split revenue from personal data sales with consumers. But the idea appears to have frizzled; multiple phone inquiries to Zimtu went unanswered.

[Privacy Digest]

Law Review Article Says Port Scanning Illegal

Anonymous Coward writes: “The Journal of Technology Law and Policy has a good article on computer security and privacy. If you ignore the more metaphorical crap at the beginning of the article, the author marches through some laws that apply to the Internet and shows how they apply and why his way of deciding what kind of access to a computer breaks the law and what kinds don’t is better. (Its based on property and expectations of privacy.) It’s interesting to see the computer security from a lawyer’s point of view. Especially interesting are his claims that using nmap is illegal, despite the VC3 v. Moulton case. I’m not sure I agree with him, but he definitely makes a pretty sobering case.” Actually, I think the metaphors throughout this piece (not just at the beginning) are what make it interesting, and a big component of law is dealing with metaphors. This piece also collects in one place a lot of the cases dealing with computer law.

[Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

Microsoft posts new Exchange patch.
MICROSOFT POSTED NEW versions of a patch late Friday to fix a flaw that it previously said only exists in its Exchange 2000 Server e-mail system. In the updated security bulletin, however, Microsoft added the more widely used Exchange 5.5 Server to the list of affected software.

See also: InfoWorld article on performance problems with Exchange 2000 and previous version of patch.


[via Computer security news]

MIT Technology Review: The Myth of “Internet Time”. Andrew Odlyzko. Internet time appeared to give special power to the first-mover advantage. A company that could quickly establish itself as a pets portal, for example, might be able to gain a high enough market share to discourage competition. [Tomalak’s Realm]