A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack starts by the attacker recruiting an army of computers on the Internet ready to strike at a moment's notice. Recruitment involves luring the unsuspecting computer owners around the world with weak safeguards into visiting sites or opening emails that would result in a malicious program being executed leaving — Continue reading »
Windows file search and desktop search
📆 April 15, 2006
When it comes to searching for files, the standard Windows file search seems to be good choice, until you realize that it doesn't always deliver. I'm not sure why this utility, that has probably been around since Windows itself, has never done a good job. Windows also comes with another utility known as Index Server. — Continue reading »
The US debt
📆 April 8, 2006
Imagine, if you will, that you are under a mountain of debt. Credit card bills, car payment, a big mortgage, and who knows what else. Of course you still have to meet regular life expense obligations, such as food, utilities, and clothing. After much stress you sit down one day to try to figure a — Continue reading »
AJAX overload
📆 April 2, 2006
Years ago SUN proclaimed that the network was the computer. Nowadays, one can also say that the Web page is the application, thanks to AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML). When I think of creating an application, my first instinct is to create it as a Web application. I have been using that approach for some — Continue reading »
Energy drinks paradox
📆 March 26, 2006
As I remember from my biology classes of decades ago, food is what gives us energy. Suddenly this seemingly common-sense belief had been turned on its head thanks to the bevy of new drinks sweeping the market, known as energy drinks. The other day I saw a can of Tab in the grocery store with — Continue reading »
Database free-for-all
📆 March 23, 2006
There was a time when being a database vendor was easy money. Today database management systems have become dime-a-dozen commodities, thanks to widespread availability and the number of competing vendors peddling their products. This sea-change is of course not just limited to databases. Commercial software in general is rapidly marching towards the open source model. — Continue reading »
Microsoft Windows Live Mail
📆 March 16, 2006
I have been writing a few entries about the Microsoft Live products in my blog. This entry is about Windows Live Mail. A few days ago I had registered for the beta version of this product, and yesterday I received the invitation in my Hotmail account to join, and join I did with some reservation. — Continue reading »
Amazon S3
Today I received an email from Amazon touting the release of their new storage service, Amazon S3. This is a new addition to Amazon’s arsenal of Web services, dubbed AWS (Amazon Web Services). S3 (which stands for Simple Storage Service) offers online storage to users at relatively cheap prices. It is the latest in the — Continue reading »
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