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Clean up those URLs

Posted Wed, 2003-04-02 19:15 by geekwisdom
Have you cleaned up your URLs lately? When was the last time you gave any thought to what your URLs look like. Are they easy to type? Can you remember them?
Towards Next Generation URLs By Thomas A. Powell and Joe Lima For many years we have heard about the impending death of URLs that are difficult to type, remember and preserve.

CORBA for Linux

Posted Fri, 2003-03-28 09:49 by geekwisdom
ORBit is a CORBA 2.2-compliant Object Request Broker (ORB) featuring mature C and Perl bindings. Bindings (in various degrees of completeness) are also available for C++, Lisp, Pascal, Python, Ruby, and TCL; others are in-progress. It supports POA, DII, DSI, TypeCode, Any, IR and IIOP.
Optional features including INS and threading are available. ORBit is engineered for the desktop workstation environment, with a focus on performance, low resource usage, and security.

PHP Acceleration

Posted Tue, 2003-03-18 22:12 by geekwisdom
PHP is one of the world's most installed web scripting languages. Sites like Yahoo are adopting it as their standard. But, because PHP is not a precompiled language there is room for execution improvement. Enter the PHP accelerator. The following is a list of some PHP accelerators...

SuSE Linux Openexchange Server Evaluation Program

Posted Mon, 2003-03-17 11:01 by geekwisdom
SuSE Linunx has just announced their SuSE Linux Openexchange Server Evaluation Program. For $49.95 (was $19.95) you can get their Openexchange Server without support or maintenance. [SuSE]

Honeypots

Posted Thu, 2003-03-13 17:03 by geekwisdom
Production honeypots can be used to protect your network by intercepting attack probes intended for IP addresses that are currently unused and sending to the honeypot. The honeypot will then interact with the attacker leading it to believe it's a different system than it really is. This can be combined with tarpitting to slow attackers. Honeypots are an exciting new technology. They allow us to turn the tables on the bad guys, we can take the initiative. In the past several years there has been growing interest in exactly what this technology is and how it works. The purpose of this paper is to introduce you to honeypots and demonstrate their capabilities. We will begin by discussing what a honeypot is and how it works, then go into detail using the OpenSource solution Honeyd.

Web-based applications: Shopping carts

Posted Thu, 2003-03-13 07:56 by geekwisdom
Web-based applications: Shopping carts - "What is a shopping cart? Well, a shopping cart is a piece of software that sits in the cgi-bin of your webserver (if it's perl-based) or it sits in some other directory if it uses php, for example. But wherever this software lives, what it does is the same. It takes orders. It presents your products to people on the internet.

Streaming MPEG-4 with Linux

Posted Thu, 2003-03-13 07:40 by geekwisdom
Streaming MPEG-4 with Linux - Internet video for the next generation. Video conferencing, surveillance or video on demand, this article covers everything from encoding to streaming MPEG4 video over the net. [Linux Journal]