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2004-02-14Phil Windley | ETCon 2004: Robert Kaye on Social Networking-Based File Sharing Networks. Here's a discussion of social networks and P2P, with notes taken by Phil Windley. The suggestion here is that a central server is needed to support authentication and provide connections. This is the only link I got in looking for 'P2P bootstrapping' so I will have to break up the phrase and try again. DNS HOST QUERY. This is a DNS host query web interface linked by Kurose and Ross. I thought there was more to find here. carpeNet Traceroute Source Code. Different versions of Traceroute. I would like to find one compiled for the Windows platform, but I can stand it to compile this, I suppose. Bruce A. Mah: pchar. Here's a site of material on measuring network path characteristics. This seems to be all GNU/Linux and Unix oriented. I need to look farther. MTR. This is a GPL'd utility that provides a combined Ping and TraceRoute utility. This is the sort of thing that I am looking for at one level. The next challenge is to see what other implementations are available. traceroute.org. This is the traceroute site given by Kurose and Ross. I want to be able to trace routes from my own edge to various hosts, such as DNS servers, so that I can have a sense for what is going on. So I want to know what I can run locally. Distributed ComputingBeing in a computer communication course, I am looking more into P2P and related computing initiatives that can apply here. I have also been having more ideas about how Miser can be operated in a distributed way, although the trust issues are pronounced. Caching and other considerations come into the Miser case, and that is interesting too, as well as decentralized use of identifiers, hint locations, and descriptions.ClippingsGrid Computing in the Enterprise. OK, the connection of WS-R is with the 1965 introduction of the first multiprocessor computer. I don't know where they get that date, since multiprocessor's shipped before that, but that is what was taken out of context in the news brief. The full article is useful, and WS-Resource may be even more important.ACM News Service - Grids in the Enterprise. This article on the growing appeal of grids in enterprise computing points out that the emergence of the WS-R Resource Framework is important. I don't understand the reference to almost 40 years of development, so we will have to see what this is about. Web users re-visit in steps TRN 021104. This article expands on the re-visit study and also provides an arxiv citation for the full paper. ACM News Service - Web Users Re-Visit in Steps. This news brief is about studies on how people find information that they found before. Although there are some concerns that the study might not be observing what it intends, the observations are interestiing with regard (in my context) to guiding searches for distributed resources for re-access or for first-access given appropriate hints. I am interested in hinting with regard to resource locations, as well as caching and other aids. Hinting is used with XML Data Type Definitions (DTDs), Namespaces as schema locations, and distributed naming systems such as those used for Java and for .NET. Trustworthy ComputingNCSD and US-CERTHere are some clippings on the National Cyber Security Department and the US-CERT Cyberspace Emergency Response TeamResourcesWelcome to US-CERT. This is the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) web site. I am not sure how this relates to the CERT effort that already existed, and I don't know what is done to assure the security of warnings and provision of counter-measures. Something to dig deeper int.PCWorld.com - Cybersecurity Warning Service Launches. This 2004-01-28 Adrienne Newell article describes the launch of the NCSD Warning Service. There are e-mail alert services and a web site. PCWorld.com - Cybersecurity Experts Urge Action. This is a 2003-12-05 account of the inaugural DHS National Cyber Security Summit. I need to return to these and make copies of the pages in case they are disappear at some point. PCWorld.com - Privacy & Security. I was looking at some of the many downloads listed here, and I was inflicted with a pop-up. At least it wasn't one that promised to remove pop-ups. What I also noticed was how relatively few downloads of the NSCD documents there have been, compared to the most-popular protection downloads. That doesn not make the NNCSD effort unsuccessful, it just reflects how few are interested in understanding its scope and content. PCWorld.com - National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (Final). This PC World download site has the 2003-02-14 final draft document and several pages of search results on Privacy and Security, including trial software, free downloads, etc. PCWorld.com - Is Cyberspace Getting Safer?. Here's the complete article by Adrienne Newell published on 2004-02-11. There are links to supporting materials. ACM News Service - Is Cyberspace Getting Safer?. This news brief reviews movement by the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) to promote cybersecurity. There is some recognition of relationships between safety and security in the promotion of developer attention on technologies that lead to code with fewer vulnerabilities and fewer bugs. 2004-02-13Computer NetworkingDemonstrating OperationI want to be able to demonstrate basic networking operation, especially at the application layer, and provide confirmable experiences with different toolcraft cases. At the moment I am having difficulty with telnet, apparently because there are things I don't know about the protocol and how to configure telnet clients. So far I have had poor success with HyperTerm and with the Windows telnet console application, both supplied with Windows. I have much to complain about with the jEdit plug-in for JTA (telnet) also. I think what I want is a way to edit a buffer and then spill it at a connection, as well as noticing what the connection returns in response. What I have doesn't satisfy that basic need (so there's a toolcraft opportunity here). Meanwhile, I also checked around SourceForge, and I came up with the following.Telnet ClientsSourceForge.net: Project Info - Console Telnet for Win32. Heres a C++ implementation of a Windows-platform Telnet client and user agent with VT100 emulation, etc.SourceForge.net: Project Info - Expect. This is a tool for automating exchanges over text-like protocols (I expect) and also testing such exchanges. It appears to provide case bases and that makes it very appealing for a number of automated functions.&nbps; Some of this is in Tcl, but I suspect that it is pretty adaptable. This is a mature, public-domain contribution. SourceForge.net: Project Info - The Java Telnet Application. Here's a Telnet application written as a Java applet that operates from a browser. SourceForge.net: Project Info - Dave's Telnet. This is a Windows GUI Telnet implementation that provides appropriate terminal emulation for ASCII terminals too. SourceForge.net: Project Info - MacTelnet. Here's a Telnet package for Macintosh that has some useful functionality that programmers might find valuable for other platforms too. SourceForge.net: Project Info - sshdos - SSH, SCP, SFTP, Telnet client. I'm looking for Telnet sources, because it turns out that Telnet can be used to do cool things like demonstrate simple protocols -- HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and so on. So, for nfoWare, I want to have as much toolcraft as I can find. This one, also supporting SSH, runs in DOS, which is rather wicked. And rather amazing. MiscellanyHere are some disorganized gleanings that I haven't done anything more withEbooks: Neither E, Nor Books. This text for a presentation at an O'Reilly conference, has a number of delightful topics. First, it is about books, writers, publishers, and readers. Secondly, it is about the intellectual-property angst that attends writing for a living, publishing for a living (reading for a living?) and such. It is also an example of something interesting that is intentionally put in the public domain. Finally, it has a lot to say about what makes books interesting, what makes eBooks interesting and useful, and so on. There is information here that will be useful for nfoWare, and there is good material to quote and cite. Nice job.2004-02-12The Times & The Sunday Times, Malta: Reasoning on the Web with rules and semantics. The February 8, 2004, article by Ibn Campusino that provides more on the REWERSE initiative. ACM News Service -- Reasoning on the Web With Rules and Semantics. This summary features the REWERSE Framework Programme being launched by the European Commission. It begins in March and will continue for 4 years, involving 27 European research and development organizations. I am interested in software interoperability in the web context, and also unified tools for reasoning languages. This is an useful marker on where we are with regard to having our hands around The Semantic Web. Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/09/2004 | Lofty goal: Computers people can talk with. This is the full article by Robert S. Boyd. ACM News Service -- Lofty Goal: Computers People Can Talk With. This citation of a Philadelphia Inquirer article by Robert Boyd claims that text-to-speech products average 66% accuracy and that is still where it begins to be benefitial to visually-impaired users. Voice recognition accuracy ranges from 60 to 90 percent depending on control of the vocabulary and use of restricted speech. Natural Language understanding may ultimately be unreachable, though a breakthrough in this area would be extremely benefitial. 2004-02-10Pond Venture Partners is the only fund to focus exclusively on early-stage technology investing in the UK and Europe. I'm looking to connect with Peter van Cuylenberg to ask him about his ideas about systems coherence that he promoted when we were at the same company. I found an announcement that he is at this firm. Laboratory of Experimental Archeology. Here's an English page about some educational work. This may be a hoot. Archeologiasperimentale: Vi invitiamo a visitare. On the flight from Rome, La Repubblica had an article about the Pigorini museum of prehistory and ethnography in Rome. We missed it. I used that name to do a web search today. ACM News Service: Software Innovation Is Dead. Another oddity of the ACM News Service is that the current page has a different location than the same page in the archives, and blogging the current page or a fragment thereof will be of temporary use. I must remember to read in the archive (which also has the current issue). OK, so here is the article on the death of software innovation. The referenced original article is apparently slashdotted (it is on newsforge, heh). But I will find it. ACM News Service. I stopped my ACM Technews subscription when they couldn't figure out how not to send me notices using HTML-formatted mail, something that is forbidden at Orcmid's Lair. Anyhow, I must create a reminder to go to the site and look at issues as they appear on their established publication schedule. Meanwhile, here's a provocative article. I am going to find the original too. It is not what you do, it is whom you do it with. OK, I like everything that Espen Anderen writes, so far. I even went back and collected his older columns on ACM Ubiquity. Here's his latst one. It is entertaining. I wonder how to apply it in anything I am up to, and it is still entertaining. O p e n W i k i - Open Wiki. Well, I don't like SnipSnap, but I found OpenWiki in my search for it, and OpenWiki runs on the hosting platform that I have. And I like how it presents itself. So, this is getting interesting. SnipSnap :: start. Bill Anderson told me about SnipSnap as an interesting Wiki with blog support. So I tracked this down. It is written in Java, that won't help me on my hosted site, I think. I will look at the requirements to be sure. 2004-02-09Paul A. Strassmann: Biography. Here's Paul Strassman[n]'s on-line bio. It is interesting. I remember him from my first tour at Xerox Corporation, 1972-1978. Most Outsourcing Is Still for Losers - Computerworld. This is a fascinating Paul Strassman article, as is the linked-to 1995 article when Strassman first noticed the phenomenon. You may need to register to use the site, but there is no fee. 2004-02-08Personal ComputingWireless NetworkingUpgrading a SOHO LAN for WirelessLinksys: WMP54G - Wireless-G PCI Adapter. This is the adapter I would add to Vicki's machine if we had to move into a location where I could not run a wired LAN, or we simply decided not to do that again.Linksys: WAP54G - Wireless-G Access Point. This is a higher-performance access point that should work with Vicki's computer and also any future laptops and tablets that might arrive. I should look at this for alternative pricing. Linksys: WAP11 - Wireless-B Access Point. If I am adding wireless to my SOHO LAN, I would add a wireless access point (WAP) to my existing LAN configuration. Because I use a LinkSys router and broadband xxxx now, I would consider a Linksys WAP11 for my system, since any Tablet or new laptops would be able to use 802.11b. InfoCater Tablet PCs and Tablet Computers. Here's my benchmark Tablet PC at the moment, the Acer TravelMate TMC300XCi. It cracks the $2000 barrier and satisfies my minimum requirements. Since I won't be purchasing until 2005, I expect to hold the price-point and watch features improve (especially RAM and hard drive). Nikon SB-22S TTL Shoe Mount Flash. I did a stupid thing and broke the shoe mount on my SB-22S, a wonderful little on-camera flash. So I need to replace it. It is not a current Nikon product, but they are available. There are ones for like $99 "like new" and there is a decent price here. I will look to see what I can find on eBay and try out my new PayPal account first, though. Print File 35-7B 35mm Negative Preservers (100 Pages). I don't need a thousand of these, but this is also an in-range price for the 100 page set. I will look at shipping and availability to see how well I can do this. Pictureline Information Page. Here's a dealer with good prices and $6.45 shipping. I don't need to open a PayPal account, and that strikes me as an advantage. I will probably come back here for that reason. eBay Store - Chambrenoirecan: Ilford Agfa Kodak photo paper, Agfa photo paper, Darkroom accessories. This is the storefront where I found the great price for negative preservers. They specialize in darkroom products and this is good to remember. eBay item 2984649841 (Ends 09-Feb-04 16:13:49 EST) - PRINT FILE NEGATIVE PRESERVER 35-7BXW -100/pk. Oh, I got it. The ApproximatelyC price is Canadian. I need a PayPal account to have this work with this vendor. Hmm. eBay item 2984649841 (Ends 09-Feb-04 16:13:49 EST) - PRINT FILE NEGATIVE PRESERVER 35-7BXW -100/pk. And here's an e-bay offer that I can purchase for a fixed price of $16.95 plus $5.00 shipping. I am not clear why there is also an approximate price of $22.44 unless it is some sort of auction level, but I can't understand why it is higher than the Buy It Now price. More to figure out here. Set Shop 9420EW - 35-7bXW 100pc. And the 100 pack for $28.00. The math is odd, so I wonder if there is a shipping difference for 4 packs instead of 1 big one. OneCall: Print File / 357B IN STOCK! / 35mm Negative Pages 25 Sheets (35-7B)OK, so there are also packs of 25, which I am accustomed to. One on-line quote is $7.40. That's $29.60 for 100. Plus $5.82 shipping, minimum. OK, keep looking. Showcase Inc Online Store. Apparently, the local photography classes have scooped up all of the Print File 37-B Archival preserver pages for 35mm negatives. I used my last one without realizing that I needed a backup pack, so I am doing a web search. I can get 100 pages for $31 here. I will look a little farther.
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