Firewalls: Cisco Pix 501 I bought this device because so many people said how great it is. I have to say, I HATE this thing. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) is horrible. It doesn’t work right at all. The command line is cryptic. It seems that either you know Cisco’s…
Is John Kerry really Lurch from the Addams family? Look for yourself UPDATE: I took it down. It was mean. 🙁 Maybe I should put it back up.
This is my first blog. At first I tried to set this thing up with SFTP which is a secure form of FTP. I could not get it to work. I tried the filezilla SFTP server. I dont want to use straight FTP because its inherently insecure. I wish Microsoft…
From June 7, 1997: (http://web.archive.org/web/19970618002600/www.commadot.com/beta/html/june5-97.htm) Someone told me after the lost-world hoax debacle, “Who the hell are you? To be calling Bullshit on Universal and CNN?”This raises two important lessons. The first is regarding he power of the “published” word. The second is the power of the Internet to publish.…
From May 30, 1997 (http://web.archive.org/web/19970618002257/www.commadot.com/beta/html/archive.htm) The lost-world column stirred some emotions. So in all fairness, I will re-visit the idea of PR hacks. Early in my internet career I knew some hackers. They broke into remote systems for fun or for agenda. Some of these hackers were immature and sexually…
From May 29, 1997 (http://web.archive.org/web/19970618002257/www.commadot.com/beta/html/archive.htm) The lost-world was “hacked” yesterday. (May 28, 1997) Someone replaced the opening image on the lost-world website yesterday. The new image transformed the scary dinosaur skeleton into a rubber duck. The caption: The duck-world. Beneath the caption was a very small tagline stating, hackers. Every…
Definition: A component of the Internet Information Server (IIS) 3.0 from Microsoft, which parses scripting languages on the server. The structure of the technology lets you create HTML pages which include scripts (right in the HTML which can talk freely to a database and other OLE resources easily and quickly.)…
I am in a rush, so here is the quickie prediction of the day: The internet has alot of good stuff. The Web and Email are the biggies. Expect WebTV and others like it to break through the wall into mainstream America. Why? Because most of America doesn’t need a…
Should Eliison Buy Apple? Background: Apple is in loads of trouble. They just fired 2700 employees and bought an operating system with no acceptance. Oracle CEO, Larry Elison, (One of the Top Ten Richest Men in America) is feeling the waters to see if buying the ailing Apple for a…
39 People Dead on the Internet This is the headline everyone is seeing now. I find that the “Legitimate” news industry paints a fairly grim view of the Internet. Scare tactics, fear mongering, and downright lies have blemished the infancy of a new medium. Next time you see a news…
I’ve been busy, OK? Kokopelli New Media has taken a strong upswing, and kept my dumb ass busy for months. Now, things have progressed into something a little more structured and I have set aside time to write about the latest and greatest on the web. So lets get right…
I hear the wackiest things when it comes to the Network Computer and what the world and computing will be like in the coming years and months. I will not claim that I know exactly what will succeed and what is just moonshine, but I will lay out the possibilities…
Six months ago many industry analysts predicted the demise of Apple after they posted a 700 million dollar loss. Many thought that they were ripe for a hostile takeover. Recent events have saved Apple from the brink of destruction and set them on the road to a fabulous comeback. After…
Lately the research I’ve been doing has to do with Visual Basic and its Web potential as opposed to Perl or C. Visual basic is much easier to learn and it seems that most programmers have frowned upon it for no other reason than its lack of complexity. I have…