18th February 2002 Archive

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• The Bastard Guide To Writing Software

  Episode 3 Junket Alert

  BOFH 2002: Episode 3 I HATE IT!!!! The Boss has been talking to some geeky guy from R&D who's so far 'out there' he's got satellites orbiting him, and now he wants us to develop our own software... "But it's a sure thing!" he cries, mentally preparing for his stardom on the international geek-talk circuit as the man who …

  BOFH 18 Feb 2002, 00:01

• Censor-buster Peek-A-Booty goes public

  CodeCon P2P Proxy

  Peek-A-Booty, cDc's much vaunted anonymity app, is vaporware no more - it went public at the landmark CodeCon conference in San Francisco's DNA Lounge on Sunday. Peek-A-Booty is designed to let surfers access sites blocked by government restrictions, and is essentially, a distributed proxy network. It uses a peer-to-peer model …

  Music and Media 18 Feb 2002, 09:36

• mmO2 to pioneer mobile IM in Europe

  Teams up with OpenWave

  mmO2's Genie mobile internet portal launched an instant messaging (IM) service on Friday. It is the first of Europe's major mobile portals to do so, and likely to also be among the first to support the Wireless Village instant messaging specification unveiled by leading wireless handset makers and others earlier last week …

  Data Networking 18 Feb 2002, 09:56

• McData wants Brocade to disable hardware

  Going for the jugular

  The two giants of SAN switching entered legal combat last week when McData Corp launched a lawsuit apparently aimed at the jugular vein of Brocade Communications Systems, in an effort to blunt a coming assault on its territory, Tim Stammers and Rik Turner write. Alleging a patent infringement, McData says it is determined …

  Hardware 18 Feb 2002, 09:57

• GOP/Enron satire site threatened

  Those guys have no sense of humour

  Enron owns the Republican Party in Texas, Webmaster Kelly Fero of EnronOwnsTheGOP.com would like to make clear, just in case anyone doubts that big money puts little men into powerful offices. The site dishes the dirt on the back-channel horse trading between Enron execs and the state's current governor, Rick Perry and his …

  Music and Media 18 Feb 2002, 11:47

• PayPal's first day pop

  Party like it's 1999

  I was dreamin' when I wrote this So sue me if I go too fast But life is just a party And parties weren't meant to last    --Prince "1999" Email payment service PayPal went public Friday and enjoyed the sort of first-day pop we haven't seen since the neurotic-joy days of 1999, when investment bankers got rich cashing out …

  Security 18 Feb 2002, 11:50

• SafeWeb holes emerge, said fixed

  Javascript again....

  Late last week Boston University's David Martin and the Privacy Foundation's Andrew Schulman released a report demonstrating the ease with which the SafeWeb proxy could be defeated with Javascript. SafeWeb no longer offers its free anonymous Web proxy, but it is licenced to PrivaSec, which is offering the service. It's possible …

  Security 18 Feb 2002, 11:53

• The return of the Internet IPO – PayPal shares soar

  Big premium

  Shares of PayPal Inc took off following the company's initial public offering Friday, racking up a premium all the more impressive for PayPal being one of the first internet companies to make an IPO since the dot-com crash almost two years ago. Nasdaq-quoted PYPL rose 60%, closing at $20.09. The company offered 5.4 million …

  Business 18 Feb 2002, 12:11

• Koreans pump DRAM prices – again

  They'll be making a profit next

  This is usually a time - before and during Chinese New Year - when DRAM prices fall. Not this year. Samsung and Hynix are said to be "entering negotiations with their major buyers" this week to raise contract prices by 15 to 20 per cent, the Korea Times reports. The price rise - if successful - will be the sixth increase since …

  Channel 18 Feb 2002, 12:57

• Sun hits back at IBM with Project Blue-Away

  Mid-range marketing wars

  Sun Microsystems has returned fire at arch-rival IBM in the battle for the mid-range server market with an upgrade programme targeted at NUMA-Q users. Project Blue-Away is designed to support the migration of xSeries NUMA-Q solutions to Oracle applications running within Sun's Solaris operating environment on UltraSPARC servers …

  Hardware 18 Feb 2002, 13:16

• Kiwi judges caught in Net porn inquiry

  Calls for resignations

  Women's groups have called for the resignation of a senior New Zealand judge after he admitted viewing adult movies online. Justice Robert Fisher admitted that he accessed the X-rated material some 15 months ago using this computer at work but maintains that what he did wasn't illegal. The high court judge has apologised for …

  Music and Media 18 Feb 2002, 13:18

• Salmon Days goes live with PayPal

  Warning: prawns in compromising positions, swearing, English accents

  OK, Salmon Days, our pay-per-view (PPV) live-action BOFH-inspired comedy streaming video epic, now accepts PayPal. Episode One (very funny indeed) costs one measly US dollar. Of course you have to have a PayPal account - that's what PPV means - but previously to watch Salmon Days you had to have a mobile phone and live in …

  BOFH 18 Feb 2002, 14:56

• Ex-teacher wins Friends Reunited libel case

  Poster sued in Small Claims court

  A retired schoolteacher has won a libel case after a former pupil used the popular Friends Reunited web site to allege that he had been sacked. When Jim Murray, 68, complained Friends Reunited removed the offending posting, but refused to apologise for the remarks made by Jonathan Spencer. Instead, Mr Murray took his case …

  Music and Media 18 Feb 2002, 15:12

• One thumb-up for ultra-wideband

  FCC errs on side of conservatism

  The US Federal Communication Commission has given a cautious go-ahead to the operation and marketing of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology. The decision opens the door for the commercial use of UWB technology for short-range, high-speed data communications, and in applications such as radar imaging of objects buried under the …

  Data Networking 18 Feb 2002, 15:12

• Paris Bourse scrutinises Guillemot accounts

  Should have been more cautious

  Guillemot, the French owner of Thrustmaster games peripherals and Hercules graphics boards, will have to revise its fiscal 2001 accounts, following scrutiny by the Paris Bourse. Nothing life-threatening, it seems - "There was no mistake on our part and no threat of bankruptcy", CFO Christian Guillemot says in an interview with …

  Personal 18 Feb 2002, 17:53

• Kickme.to wins BSA court search battle

  Warez fishing expedition?

  The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is vowing to fight on after the Swedish courts denied its request to obtain a civil raid permit on international redirect service, kickme.to. The Appellate Court in Skåne, Sweden upheld Landskrona District Court's decision not to grant a civil raid permit (ex-parte) at the premises of …

  Software 18 Feb 2002, 21:01

• Quite Big Iron – new baby IBM mainframe

  Very cheap 64-bit OS for newbies

  IBM starts shipping on March 29 a lower-priced, entry-level mainframe designed to make the platform more attractive to medium-sized businesses. The zSeries 800 features Big Blue's Parallel Sysplex clustering technology, enabling the networking of mainframes to improve application availability. The server is designed for …

  Hardware 18 Feb 2002, 22:31

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