tnl.net

Mozilla after AOL

June 4, 2003

Over the past few days, I’ve been spend­ing time cov­er­ing what hap­pens now that AOL and Microsoft have set­tled their dis­pute. How­ever, one area that I have not cov­ered is what could hap­pen to Mozilla mov­ing for­ward. With the new agree­ment, AOL has received a royalty-free license to use Inter­net Explorer for the next seven years. Since […]

TNL.net moves off Windows

April 9, 2003

Over the past year, it has seemed like TNL.net had gone quiet. Few updates were made to the site and fewer newslet­ters were being pub­lished. Behind the scene, how­ever, I was busy rebuild­ing the site from the ground up. The new TNL.net was relaunched in late Jan­u­ary 2003, about a month behind the sched­ule I had orig­i­nally set. […]

Patching

March 31, 2003

Internet.com reports about the logic behind unpatched sys­tems. A lot of it goes to the fact that sys­tem admin­is­tra­tors are del­uged with new patches and are fed up of high level alerts on inessen­tial patches. How­ever, when a sys­tem crashes, the blame falls squarely on the shoul­ders of the sys­tem admin­is­tra­tor. In order to resolve this, two […]

Death by a thousand papercuts

February 20, 2003

CIO mag­a­zine is run­ning an inter­est­ing arti­cle show­cas­ing efforts by sev­eral com­pa­nies to use a more mod­u­lar approach when build­ing new EAI appli­ca­tions. Based on what the arti­cle is say­ing, it looks like we are now reach­ing a point where going with a sin­gle ven­dor for your com­plete solu­tion is no longer the prefer­able choice. The rise of […]

Seeing Red

August 5, 2001

Last week, for the sec­ond week in a row, IIS admin­is­tra­tors have had to face Code Red. More than a sim­ple virus, Code Red could rep­re­sent a new accel­er­a­tion in the online virus war and shows that we may not be ready, as an indus­try, for the era of web ser­vices. A Rapid Epi­demic Now that I’ve got […]

Ogg Vorbis: MP3 Contender?

March 12, 2001

With Linux becom­ing a strong alter­na­tive to Microsoft’s oper­at­ing sys­tem, some mem­bers of the open source com­mu­nity are set­ting their sights on a new tar­get: the music indus­try. The group has intro­duced a new sound for­mat called Ogg Vor­bis, which promises to deliver bet­ter sound qual­ity or smaller dig­i­tal music files than the pop­u­lar MP3 file for­mat. Ogg […]

Securing SOAP

February 20, 2001

The lead­ing con­tender for the com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­to­col that facil­i­tates the world’s busi­ness trans­ac­tions is designed to trans­mit data over HTTP, in the clear. Although some of the cre­ators of Sim­ple Object Access Pro­to­col (SOAP) have expressed con­cern, the con­sor­tium respon­si­ble for redraft­ing SOAP into the new Exten­si­ble Markup Lan­guage (XML) Pro­to­col is near­ing agree­ment that […]

Open Source IIS

April 14, 2000

Shame on Microsoft! Today, it was announced that the Red­mond com­pany had send out ver­sion of its IIS 4.0 server with a back­door. At the height of its war with Netscape, Microsoft engi­neers included a secret back­door pass­word using the phrase Netscape engi­neers are wee­nies! into ver­sion of IIS. As a result, Any­one writ­ing a script that would access […]

Netscape Navigator 6.0: Better?

April 5, 2000

I use my browser all the time. It’s one of the pro­grams on my sys­tem that just stays open most of the time. I used to love Netscape but was seduced by Microsoft’s Inter­net Explorer 4.0 and never went back to Netscape on a reg­u­lar basis since. How­ever, some­thing told me that a browser that was two years […]

MS-DOJ Talks Falter: So What?

April 2, 2000

Microsoft and the Depart­ment of Jus­tice fail to come to an agree­ment, insur­ing that Microsoft will be seen as a monopoly.