Interesting links, detartrated for your convenience.
Friday, February 27, 2004
Everybody huang chung tonight? Chinese music: Tone and the Instruments: "The failure of a dynasty was ascribed to its inability to find the proper huang chung, or tone of absolute pitch." [permalink]
Thursday, February 26, 2004
2RSS.com :: RSSlib,RSS2HTML,RSS2JS,RSS feeds,RSS directory,RSS software,RSS scripts,RSS articles,RSS syndication,XML,RDF,news ...: "Converting Atom XML feed to RSS feed is a new service our site offers, for free." [permalink]
Life With Alacrity: Security & Cryptography: The Bad Business of Fear: "There were the same old tools that we've been using to deter hackers since the advent of the Morris Worm way back in 1989: products to detect intruders and safeguard your machines against them; firewalls; and VPNs." [permalink]
Here's your word of the day: "zombie document"! SecurityFocus HOME Mailing List: BugTraq: "When linking to a new page it is still possible to interact with the old page before the new page has been successfully loaded (zombie document)." [permalink]
How several well-known writers (and the Unabomber) would fare on the new SAT:
"In the summer of 2002 the College Board announced its plans to change the SAT." Here's how the new section works and amusing examples. Only the Unabomber got 6 out of 6. [permalink]
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Techworld.com - Our software leaves business open to fraud, admits MS security head: "Holes in Microsoft software leaves businesses worldwide open to extortion and fraud, the company's top security expert has admitted." [permalink]
Thursday, February 19, 2004
The Microsoft Word MVP FAQ Site is a great collection of MS Word tips, macros, etc. Just click on "FAQ" or other items on the page's menubar (which for me was hard to notice) to navigate between the sections. [permalink]
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
SPEWS.ORG - the internet's Spam Prevention Early Warning System: "SPEWS is a list of areas on the Internet which several system administrators, ISP postmasters, and other service providers have assembled and use to deny email and in some cases, all network traffic from." [permalink]
Friday, February 13, 2004
Here is a series of three articles on how to set up and use Nessus: Introduction to Nessus,
Nessus, Part 2: Scanning, Nessus, Part 3: Analysing Reports. [permalink]
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Here's an index page to all recent Microsoft Security Bulletins. [permalink]
Sunday, February 08, 2004
A dry collection of abbreviations: "Index of /signal/Acronyms" (Sorry, they are mostly abbreviations, not acronyms, but a potentially useful reference nevertheless.) [permalink]
Pub Songs, Tunes, Music: "Irish Songs, Tunes, and Lyrics. Print these out, bring 'em with you, and sing along tonight!" From an "Irish" pub in Key West, Florida. [permalink]
Monday, February 02, 2004
You can watch (all?) the Superbowl ads you may have missed at IFILM Super Bowl Ads: "IFILM's 3rd Annual Super Bowl Ads Extravaganza!" [permalink]