Monday, February 11, 2002

[The New York Times: National] F.B.I. Warns of Possible Terrorist Attack. The F.B.I. issued a new security threat alert on Monday night, more specific than any before, warning of a possible attack as early as Tuesday in the United States or Yemen.  the times we live in... makes me think about staying home from work tomorrow 9:20:39 PM

[The Register] New G4 roadmaps promise Apple harvest 1:44:30 PM

[Slashdot] New Sensor Has Real Per-Pixel RGB Sensitivity Carver Mead has been at this for a long time. The real color-per-pixel thing was just part of what they had in the works -- the other thing I remember hearing about was adjusting the light sensitivity locally within the image, the way the eye does -- allowing you to naturally mix very bright and very dark things in images. the pictures in the embedded article are pretty impressive 1:40:15 PM

[Slashdot] Lessig Proposes "Creative Commons" This could be interesting. I like the idea of putting licensing back under the explicit control of the creators. 12:10:30 PM

[diveintomark] Groovedump. Weblogs: they're cheaper than therapy. 12:00:55 PM

[The Motley Fool] Stock Portion Sizes. You've found a stock you want, but how much of a position should you take? haven't read, but it sounds like a good question 11:55:43 AM

[The Motley Fool] How to Find a Tax Pro. Don't want to do your taxes yourself? Then how do you pick a pro? 11:48:41 AM

[Hack the Planet] Daniel Berlinger is bummed that OS X doesn't support async DNS lookups. Most Unixes have this problem, but the good news is that you don't have to use the default DNS resolver; you can use adns or something similar. 9:02:49 AM

[IBM DeveloperWorks: XML News] NetBeans XML module released (Java Lobby) NetBeans is the Sun sponsored open-source IDE framework, all in Java.   Not bad looking, but pretty slow to use.. 8:58:37 AM

[Tomalak's Realm] Useit.Com: From March 7, 1999; Trust or Bust: Communicating Trustworthiness in Web Design 8:57:25 AM

[diveintomark] John also maintains a site of other Zen stories, affectionately called Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors. Highly recommended. 8:44:41 AM

[Slashdot] Google's Search Appliance 8:40:54 AM

[John Robb's Radio Weblog] eWeek.  Longhorn (Microsoft's next release of the O/S) is expected to include a SQL database driven file system (a pared down version of Yukon). >>>"There is an effort ... to include storage technology that will allow for some manipulation and querying for structured and unstructured data across our products," Ressler said. "We're certainly not putting SQL Server into the operating system. Yukon is not going into Windows or any other product in that sense." But the storage technology in question allows "queries both with relational syntax and through XML-type syntax," Ressler said. "There's source technology under development by teams across the company." Microsoft has told customers and partners that the inclusion of the SQL file system could push out the release cycle for the next two versions of Windows by a year or so, with Longhorn now likely to debut in 2004 and Blackcomb in late 2005 or early 2006. <<<  Note:  It is my understanding that Longhorn will also include the .Net client run-time. 8:34:40 AM

[Slashdot] Handspring Treo Now Available 8:30:17 AM