August 2001
ZDnet: IM for business takes
by Volker Weber
ZDnet: IM for business takes off
Two views of the scripting
by Volker Weber
Two views of the scripting world in 2005
Beautiful and well written: <the
by Volker Weber
Beautiful and well written: <the gift>
Play Jigsaw Puzzles Online
by Volker Weber
Domino Performance Zone on IT
by Volker Weber
Domino Performance Zone on IT Central
Mark Twain und die Schweizer
by Volker Weber
Mark Twain und die Schweizer Raddampfer
Interesting thread on Notes.net talking
by Volker Weber
Interesting thread on Notes.net talking about Notes as a New OS/2.
WebHits - Internetstatistiken
by Volker Weber
LEGO Movies: One - A
by Volker Weber
LEGO Movies: One - A Space Odyssey or Jurassic Bark anyone?
Warning: LEGO Junkbot is addictive
by Volker Weber
Warning: LEGO Junkbot is addictive
This one's for me. Don't
by Volker Weber
This one's for me. Don't want to lose the link: XML.com: RSS: Lightweight Web Syndication
Finally they get it. Perfectly
by Volker Weber
Finally they get it. Perfectly good food does not have to be thrown away. Doggy bag use is up. I don't care what Greenspan thinks.
Tipp von Hajo aus der
by Volker Weber
Tipp von Hajo aus der Kategorie "Gadget of the week": Snakebite
Internet Explorer 6 is out
by Volker Weber
Internet Explorer 6 is out now. Visual walk-through available from WebAttack.com. If you like to download the files and burn them on a cd, you first download ie6setup.exe and then run this command: ie6setup.exe /c:"ie6wzd.exe /d /s:""#E"
Paying for Web Services by
by Volker Weber
Paying for Web Services by Jon Udell
Must read: Panel Discussion -
by Volker Weber
Must read: Panel Discussion - PC: 20 Years + Beyond: Dave Bradley (father of ctrl-alt-del), Dan Bricklin (inventor of VisiCalc), David Bunnell (founder of PC Mag et. al.), Rod Canion (founder of Compaq), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Andy Grove (Intel), Mitch Kapor (founder of Lotus Development), Ray Ozzie (inventor of Notes)
There is a new version
by Volker Weber
There is a new version of eDonkey2K, one of the most popular file sharing clients (Windows, Linux, closed source; see review). eDonkey downloads files from multiple users who have them simulateneously, even when these other users are still downloading the file themselves. This makes it possible to get astonishing transfer rates, especially for popular, large files. Because of its automatic resuming even between sessions, you don't have to worry much about broken downloads -- only about files that never appear online again
kolumnen.de - Nightlife - Nächtliche
by Volker Weber
kolumnen.de - Nightlife - Nächtliche Märchen - Gilbert Dietrich
How to avoid clients
by Volker Weber
Recommended reading: Don't make me
by Volker Weber
Recommended reading: Don't make me think A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, by Steve Krug, ISBN: 0789723107. Steve says on his web site: "Can't afford a consultant? Here's everything I know about Web usability (well, almost everything) in 208 pages". If you can afford him, Steve can also be contracted.
Hier wird in München geblitzt.
by Volker Weber
Hier wird in München geblitzt.
Happy Birthday, Linux! 10 years
by Volker Weber
Happy Birthday, Linux! 10 years and counting ...
Gorgeous: Jezebel... A site for
by Volker Weber
Gorgeous: Jezebel... A site for sore eyes
Essential gear:
by Volker Weber
Essential gear:
anil dash - Pardon me
by Volker Weber
anil dash - Pardon me for being forward
Abe Lincoln for Microsoft
by Volker Weber
Los Angeles Times: Bill Gates'
by Volker Weber
Los Angeles Times: Bill Gates' Way or No Way
Inside Job: Seven steps to
by Volker Weber
Inside Job: Seven steps to the ultimate intranet
5% of the world's population
by Volker Weber
5% of the world's population live in a country that also has 30% of the world's prisoners. With a male population of 138 million and more than 2 million prison inmates, 94% of the them male, one in 73 men is behind bars. 30 million boys are 14 years and younger. If we do not count them, the rate is one in 57. Another dangerous criminal has just been termporarily arrested and "is facing up to 20 years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines".
Obelix als Münchner
by Volker Weber
Obelix als Münchner 
Stolen from kottke.org - home
by Volker Weber
Stolen from kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products: If you do any sort of Web or software development, I would encourage you to read The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks. It's over 25 years old and most of the technology it talks about is beyond obsolete, but that's OK because it's not a book about technology...it's about people and management and information flow and all the other non-technological aspects of software development. Brooks goes beyond describing any specific process, instead giving us a roadmap (a pattern, if you will) for the development of a process that fits the specific needs of a company or team. Some salient points from the book: (1) The mythical man-month: "The second fallacious thought mode is expressed in the very unit of effort used in estimating and scheduling: the man-month. Cost does indeed vary as the product of the number of men and the number of months. Progress does not. Hence the man-month as a unit for measuring the size of a job is a dangerous and deceptive myth. It implies that men and months are interchangeable." (2) The other main point Brooks makes is that large software projects are fundamentally different than small projects, and for them to succeed, a sizable effort needs to be made to preserve the conceptual integrity of the end product by whatever means necessary.
"I can see dead people,
by Volker Weber
"I can see dead people, and they all seem to
like me
"
Mit George W. Bush stößt
by
Mit George W. Bush stößt Amerika in neue rhetorische Dimensionen vor. Der neue Mann im Weißen Haus spricht aus, was nie ein Mensch zuvor gesagt hat. Zum Beispiel: "I understand small business growth. I was one." ("Ich verstehe etwas vom Wachstum kleiner Unternehmen. Ich war eins.")
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by Volker Weber
Micromania oder: cuius regio, eius
by Volker Weber
Micromania oder: cuius regio, eius religio! 24 Mitglieder der Free Software Foundation wegen Verstoßes gegen die Windows-Lizenzvereinbarung festgenommen
Ten Tips for a Firmer,
by Volker Weber
Ten Tips for a Firmer, Slimmer, Sexier Weblog!
Not a Heartbeat but a
by Volker Weber
Jakob Nielsen: First Rule of
by Volker Weber
Jakob Nielsen: First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users (Alertbox Aug. 2001)
Google Questions and Answers Google
by Volker Weber
Google Questions and Answers Google is testing a service to answer questions our users cannot resolve themselves. When you submit a question through this service, Google staffers research the topic and email the information they find directly to you. The fee for this service is $3.00 per question. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you may request a full refund.
Warnung von Urs. Das Teil
by Volker Weber
Warnung von Urs. Das Teil ist gefährlich: Symantec SARC Write-up - Trojan.Offensive
IBM to open source WebSphere
by Volker Weber
IBM to open source WebSphere Linux tools
Windows RG (Really Good edition)
by Volker Weber
Windows RG (Really Good edition)
Cannot find the damn server
by Volker Weber
Enjoy a nice game of
by
Enjoy a nice game of golf. This is addictive.
Workshop mit Bob Balaban am
by Volker Weber
Workshop mit Bob Balaban am 14. September in Frankfurt: Building Scalable Web Applications with Java and RNext
abandoned places
by Volker Weber
Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice
by Volker Weber
Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
IE upgrade cuts off QuickTime:
by Volker Weber
IE upgrade cuts off QuickTime: With IE 5.5, Microsoft discontinued support for plug-ins.
Stay in New York?
by Volker Weber
Stay in New York?
Buying expensive gear does not
by Volker Weber
Buying expensive gear does not help. Use your eyes and imagination. It's not the camera - it's the photographer !
vowe's magic flying circus now
by Volker Weber
vowe's magic flying circus now has Search, even Advanced Search. Courtesy of Atomz.
DaveNet : Google upgrades the
by Volker Weber
DaveNet : Google upgrades the Web : Quietly, without much fanfare, Google is upgrading the Web. They're indexing lots of weblogs, including Scripting News, every day.
Making Lemonade: How Microsoft Is
by Volker Weber
Making Lemonade:
How Microsoft Is Using Its Own Legal Defeat to Hurt Java
You have to see this
by Volker Weber
You have to see this 404 error message.
Gonzo Marketing - The Book:
by Volker Weber
Gonzo Marketing - The Book: Winning Through Worst Practices
Step 1: Press button to
by Volker Weber
Step 1: Press button to hear marketing presentation
Another Microsoft classic
by Volker Weber
Another Microsoft classic
Steve does it again.
by Volker Weber
Steve does it again.
Take Your Photo Online
by Volker Weber
Dancing Bush
by Volker Weber
This is disturbing: The Bush
by Volker Weber
This is disturbing: The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder - Miller, a New York University professor of media studies, has fashioned a devastating compendium of President George W. Bush's grammatical gaffes, syntactical shipwrecks, mind-boggling malapropisms and simply dumb comments. Page after page (after page) of quotations, suggests Miller, reveal that Bush is a man who, while not stupid, is prodigiously illiterate and woefully uneducated. Further, and compounding the problem, Bush could not care less about these shortcomings. How then, Miller asks, and this is his larger concern, did someone in Miller's opinion so obviously unqualified to be president convince so many voters that he was? Miller's answer is, in a word, television: Bush succeeded on TV not despite his "utter superficiality," but because his superficiality blended seamlessly with the vacuous culture of the tube.
Sysinternals Freeware - Information for
by Volker Weber
Sysinternals Freeware - Information for Windows NT and Windows 2000 - PageDefrag: One of the limitations of the Windows NT defragmentation interface is that it is not possible to defragment files that are open for exclusive access. Thus, standard defragmentation programs can neither show you how fragmented your paging files or Registry hives are, nor defragment them. Paging and Registry file fragmentation can be one of the leading causes of performance degradation related to file fragmentation in a system.
PageDefrag uses advanced techniques to provide you what commercial defragmenters cannot: the ability for you to see how fragmented your paging files and Registry hives are, and to defragment them. In addition, it defragments event log files and Windows 2000 hibernation files (where system memory is saved when you hibernate a laptop).
The Last Microsoft Upgrade -
by Volker Weber
The Last Microsoft Upgrade - Why You Should Give Gates & Co. $300 More -- and Then No More: "I think you should go out and buy a Microsoft product immediately. Get Windows 2000 while you still can. It's not cheap -- the full, non-upgrade version costs $319, street price $290 -- but Windows 2000 Professional is a terrific operating system, fast, stable, feature-rich, and free of Product Activation, Passport, and other good-for-Microsoft, bad-for-you baggage. It'll run all your software, and it won't stop running if you tweak your hardware or fail to send more bucks to Microsoft next year.
"
Ray Ozzie named one of
by Volker Weber
Ray Ozzie named one of top 10 entrepreneurs for 2001 by
RedHerring
Three links on P2P: P2P
by Volker Weber
Three links on P2P: P2P expands its horizon, P2P goes to work, Peer-to-peer seeks its killer app
Palm Acquires Be
by Volker Weber
Lotus ships beta 3 of
by Volker Weber
Lotus ships beta 3 of Domino RNext
24 years ago The King
by Volker Weber
24 years ago The King died.
Weird link of the day
by Volker Weber
Weird link of the day department: Skoot The unique cycle which transforms into a case
IBM Merges WebSphere Portal Server
by Volker Weber
IBM Merges WebSphere Portal Server and Lotus K-station into Single Portal
Interview with Ray Ozzie: Reworking
by Volker Weber
Interview with Ray Ozzie: Reworking Online Work: "I came to the conclusion that the server-based model is fundamentally a non-starter in today's business environment-that a fundamentally decentralized business environment must be supported by fundamentally decentralized computing and communications technology."
SoYouWanna.com teaches you how to
by Volker Weber
SoYouWanna.com teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school.
Lotus to increase Domino integration
by Volker Weber
Lotus to increase Domino integration with IBM apps
George W. Bush's Amazon Wish
by Volker Weber
George W. Bush's Amazon Wish List
President John F. Kennedy's speech
by Volker Weber
President John F. Kennedy's speech cards show his remarks in Berlin, June 26, 1963: "Ich bin ein Berliner"
End of Service date for
by Volker Weber
End of Service date for Domino/Notes 4.5x will be September 30, 2001
Tipp von Stephan: Frau-am-Steuer.de
by Volker Weber
Tipp von Stephan: Frau-am-Steuer.de
Future Horizons - Advanced Technology:
by Volker Weber
Future Horizons - Advanced Technology: Hoverboards, Lightsabers, Jetpacks, Science Projects, Electronics Kits, Lasers, Tesla Coils, High Voltage Engineering, Plans, Books, Parts, Kits
Cartoon Laws of Physics: Old
by Volker Weber
Cartoon Laws of Physics: Old but still very funny.
Pinboard tool for Groove feature
by Volker Weber
Pinboard tool for Groove feature complete PinBoard is, well, a pin-board. But it can also be your team voting tool, to-do list, reminders, filing cabinet...
Holding up the rear Where
by Volker Weber
Holding up the rear Where did all that start-up money go? Clue No. 1: Today's dot-com auctions are flooded with opulent Aeron chairs.
News: First PDF Worm Hits
by Volker Weber
News: First PDF Worm Hits PC Users
Groove Preview Edition Build 1021
by Volker Weber
Groove Preview Edition Build 1021 available
Weird link of the day
by Volker Weber
Weird link of the day department: Fittest boy.
In case you did not
by Volker Weber
In case you did not know this already:
How to become an Internet
by Volker Weber
How to become an Internet Guru... Eleven lessons and you are done.
Weird link of the day
by
Weird link of the day department: Now here's a pretty queer site... ;-)
In case you are attending
by Volker Weber
In case you are attending IBM Solutions conference in San Francisco, here is the current weather forecast.
New study from Gartner Group:
by Volker Weber
New study from Gartner Group: Seeking New Investment Opportunities: The Next Paradigm "Peer-to-peer technology will transform the server-centric Internet to a more decentralized 'Supranet' model. This evolution will have a major impact on investment markets, triggering new funding opportunities for venture capitalists."
Star Wars: Episode II -
by Volker Weber
Star Wars: Episode II - Special Announcement: Episode II Title
David P. Kormann and Aviel
by Volker Weber
David P. Kormann and Aviel D. Rubin, AT&T Labs - Research: Risks of the Passport Single Signon Protocol
There a companies you just
by Volker Weber
There a companies you just have to love.
Interactive Map of the Internet
by Volker Weber
Interactive Map of the Internet Industry
Nein. das ist nicht von
by Volker Weber
Nein. das ist nicht von unserem NATO-Partner am Bosporus: MouseRug
Cabin on the new Airbus
by Volker Weber
Cabin on the new Airbus 380. Neat, isn't it?
Cipher attack delivers heavy blow
by Volker Weber
Cipher attack delivers heavy blow to WLAN security. Renowned cryptographers Adi Shamir (the S in RSA) and Itsik Mantin of the Computer Science Department of the Weizmann Institute (Rehovot, Israel) and Scott Fluhrer of Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) describe the new attack in a report titled "Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm for RC4." They will present the report at the Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) conference in Toronto Aug. 16-17.
Groupware has released e:PDF Server
by Volker Weber
Groupware has released e:PDF Server für Domino which lets you create PDF Files on the server instead of the client.
Is software's future in the
by Volker Weber
Is software's future in the Groove?: "While Groove isn't trying to be a consumer application at first, preferring to focus on the enterprise, consumer awareness is important. That's where Microsoft can help. Groove will be integrated into Microsoft's (MSFT: news, chart, profile) Instant Messenger, which is part of the upcoming Windows XP operating system. An applet inside Instant Messenger will let users see shared workspaces and invite others in."
BusinessWeekOnline: A Net of Their
by Volker Weber
BusinessWeekOnline: A Net of Their Own:"Like ham radio, nascent community wireless networks demonstrate the Cyber Age appeal of independent communications. P2P could ride the wave ."
NetworkWorldFusion: Peer-to-peer potential - It's
by Volker Weber
NetworkWorldFusion: Peer-to-peer potential - It's time to give an old technology a second look for the processing power, file sharing and collaboration capabilities it can provide.
James Gosling: The Story of
by Volker Weber
James Gosling: The Story of Java - A Play in Four Acts
Iris Sandbox - Web Mail
by Volker Weber
Iris Sandbox - Web Mail Redirect v2.50 Place this database as your home page on your mail server. When a user connects (for example, http://mail.lotus.com), it will prompt for authentication, extract the user's mail file information and redirect them accordingly (for example, http://mail.lotus.com/mail/c/gcook.nsf)
Inxight's LinguistX and Summarizer Enable
by Volker Weber
Inxight's LinguistX and Summarizer Enable Lotus Discovery Server with Multi-Lingual Capabilities
