Month: April 2005

NewsForge | Build an IDS with Snort, Shadow, and ACID
“Every organization understands the importance of using a firewall to protect its assets. But what happens if someone finds a hole in the wall? What if the infiltrator is actually someone from within your organization who wants to access information that he shouldn’t? To cover those contingencies, you need an intrusion detection system (IDS) to complement your firewall. Fortunately, with a minimum amount of time and money you can set up an IDS with open source tools such as Snort, Shadow, and ACID.“

freshmeat.net: Project details for NoMachine NX
“This is the first source snapshot of the NX components that will power the upcoming 1.5.0 release of NX Client and NX Server. This version contains new features that include full support for rootless operation in the X11 agent, continuous operation while disconnected, dynamic handling of the geometry of the remote desktop, full support for 16-bit and 24-bit color modes in RDP sessions, and a new NX transport model that ensures easier integration, reduced overhead, and better performance.“

Yahoo! Search blog: Saving, Sharing, and Syndicating Search via My Web
“Today, we launched a ‘My Web’, a new personal search engine fully integrated with Yahoo! Search. My Web is based on a very simple principle – a search engine should enable you to define and use the information that’s important to you. Specifically, My Web enables you to find the information relevant to you, save it, share it, add your own notes to it, and easily find it again, whether it’s three days or three months later.“

I’ve been using the beta for several months and it is handy. I stick stuff on it that I need for later, replacing some of the function of my blog.

freshmeat.net: Project details for Floranta
“Floranta provides tools to build collaborative real-time discussion boards, notice boards, and extended chat services that can be embedded in Web pages. It also includes extreme programming tools that allow users to create index cards, drop them on tables and move them, and conduct a distributed planning game collaboratively in real time.“

How to Create a Frames Layout with CSS – WebReference.com
“By far the most sought after use of CSS is to emulate the dated html ‘frame’ layout, whereby the header, navigation and footer stay on screen at all times and the content area will scroll. Since the adoption of the fixed position style by the latest browsers this is quite an easy task for CSS. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer hasn’t introduced this style into it’s repertoire (perhaps IE7 will correct this deficiency when it’s released later this year).

Fortunately, there are ways around this and it’s possible to make Internet Explorer versions IE5.01, 5.5 and 6 fall into line with the rest.”