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2007 Predictions

January 1, 2007

This year marks the 10th anniver­sary edi­tion of the TNL.net pre­dic­tions for the year ahead. In past years, I’ve been bat­ting above 50 per­cent in terms of pre­dic­tions, except when it comes to nam­ing what will hap­pen with spe­cific com­pa­nies. The trends are gen­er­ally cor­rect (or in some case, early) and I always look at this […]

2005 Predictions

January 3, 2005

Another year, another round of pre­dic­tions. As is now becom­ing cus­tom­ary on TNL.net, it’s time to project out the future year. As always, I’ll revisit those pre­dic­tions at the end of the year. Voice Over IP VoIP expe­ri­enced tremen­dous growth in 2004 but it was just the begin­ning. This year, much more will hap­pen in that space. Cable […]

Webalizer.conf hacking: HideAgent

August 27, 2003

Many peo­ple have writ­ten to me to point out that they still get dupli­cate entries in their user-agent table after using the GroupA­gent trick I high­lighted. To remove those, you need to use the HideAgent direc­tive. Here is the list of HideAgent direc­tives I have in my file: HideAgent rv:1.4 HideAgent 3.01 HideAgent 3.02 HideAgent 4.01 HideAgent 5.0 […]

AIM Not Secure

February 23, 2001

In the past few years, AIM has become a com­mu­ni­ca­tion tool used by both indi­vid­u­als and cor­po­ra­tions to facil­i­tate dis­cus­sions of issues rang­ing from what movie to see on the week­end to arcane details in con­trac­tual cor­po­rate nego­ti­a­tions. But buyer beware as hack­ers have found ways to exploit the AIM client and server to leave such […]