3/1/2002: Create & manage websites and discussions using only your web browser. Free trial sites enabled by Manila server-side software are available at manilasites.com .
Content servers provide collaborative environments where content providers and webmasters can work simultaneously without stepping on each others toes: For open source content management platforms, check out Plone, and Drupal
, built on Python (via Zope) and PHP respectively.
Hooking computers to the visual cortex of the brain produces artifical vision for the blind.
Stewart Brand and Danny Hillis' longnow.org explores how software obsolescence imperils digital archives: "We can read the technical correspondence from Galileo... but data from the pioneering days of the space program ... has already been lost."
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2 Plan deployment, security, training, and maintenance
Run diagnostics and update virus protection monthly. Diskwarrior is a great maintenance and recovery tool for the Mac. There's no real third party equivalent for Windows. Make sure Windows Update is turned on and running regularly.
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An secure alternative to NCSA Telnet is SSH. Clients are available for Windows, Macintosh (NiftyTelnet 1.1 ssh), and Unix operating systems.
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3 Track your operating system
Macs work! It's that simple...
Microsoft is powerful. So is NT...
UNIX is like driving clutch instead of automatic...very fast, very powerful, stable on the curves... but the learning curve is steep.
Linux is a freeware implementation of Unix that transforms desktops into high-speed workstations, and runs mission-critical servers as well. It's a cultural as well as a computing phenomenon.
For more information on Linux's challenge to the marketplace, see NYT's For Sale: Free Operating System.(9/28/98) and a Microsoft assessment in The Halloween Document. (10/31/98). See also Tim O'Reilly's open letter to Microsoft, responding to the Halloween memo(s).
MacOS X software: High performance & stable Unix core is at the heart of Apple's software.
Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989 while working at the European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN). Here are his views on the potential of the Internet. For a biography and list of articles, see Berner-Lee's page on the W3 site.
Freeman Dyson calls a future in Wired. Both his ideas and those of his son, George, are featured in Kenneth Brower's The Starship and The Canoe(1983). George Dyson recently published a history of the idea that machines are capable of mind in Darwin Among the Machines (1997).
NTSecurity.net provides a current inventory of security issues for Windows platform and programs that run on Windows.
SETI@home is enlisting thousands of Internet-connected PCs to help in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. It will sift data gathered by the Arecibo Radio Telescope as part of Project SERENDIP
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Beowulf Project enables supercomputing by harnassing the power of multiple Intel processors running Linux over a network.
The world's smalled web server: A 1.6" by 1.7" board running 200 bytes of Linux is currently the world's smallest web server.
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