software development, security, opinion
Google’s new toys:
“Google labs just released for your pleasure, some new toys to play with. The first is Google’s Viewer, just type a few words to see a fully working preview of the web site. Another new idea: Google’s Webquotes, View search results with quotes about them from other sites, and the last one is Google’s Froogle, which aims to be the world’s largest catalog.”
[Slashdot]
www.knowngoods.org: “Basically, the MD5, SHA-1, and file sizes for executables on common systems were thrown into a -very- simple database.”
ABC:
South Koreans launch cyber attack on US over schoolgirls’ deaths
“South Korean activists have attacked the White House computer server with electronic mail bombs to protest the acquittal of two US soldiers accused of killing two schoolgirls in a road accident… The activist says a second attack will be launched.”
Boston Globe:
Got paper? Beth Israel Deaconess copes with a massive computer crash
Network World: Hospital sounds alarm after 3-day struggle
Slashdot: Hospital Brought Down by Networking Glitch
See also an earlier Boston Globe article:
Hospital computer crash a lesson to the industry
OS News: An Overview of the Boa Web Server:
Boa is a single-tasking HTTP server. Boa does not fork a copy of itself or spawn a thread to handle each incoming connection, but rather internally multiplexes the connections. Boa only forks for CGI programs, automatic directory generation, and automatic file gunzipping, each of which must be a separate process.
