Information on News and Media from the Linux category

'Spam' Costs Internet Users EUR 10 Billion a Year - Study - Internet subscribers across the world are unwittingly paying an estimated EUR 10 billion a year in connection costs just to receive junk e-mails or 'spam'

.NET & Scripting Blog (Holger Schwichtenberg) - News about .NET

.netWire - .NET news aggregator.

1 - "She uses off-the-shelf commodity hardware running virtually any Linux distribution." Press release on Mission Critical's Kimberlite.

10738 - Selling Linux on its merits.

10801 - In the past year

10801 - Spam reports from America Online members dropped from a daily average of almost 11 million in November 2003 to a daily average of about 2.2 million last month

10801 - Microsoft is accusing the defendants of violating a new antispam law by spoofing their domains

10801 - An industry organization representing heavyweight e-mail providers Yahoo Inc.

10801 - The lawsuits are among the first filed under a new U.S. law called CAN-SPAM

10801 - Here's a look at different technologies companies such as Wyndham International have used to solve their spam problems.

10801 - The goal is to use technology to make it expensive for spammers who send out millions of unwanted e-mail messages

10801 - Shifting from daily nuisance to serious IT and business concern

10801 - A new report analyzing e-mail messages sent last month found that the problem of viruses and unsolicited e-mail continued to grow

10801 - Classifying e-mail as "good" or "junk" before it's sent to be scanned by spam filters could speed up the delivery of legitimate e-mail

10801 - The owner of a Detroit-based commercial e-mail company has agreed to a permanent injunction barring him from sending spam to customers of Verizon Online

10801 - Virginia authorities said yesterday that they had arrested and charged a North Carolina man for sending spam in the first use of a new state law that could bring penalties of up to 20 years in prison.

10801 - A new e-mail virus capable of turning infected PCs into "spamming machines" emerged today

10801 - Two scourges -- viruses and spam -- are the most vexing e-mail issues for CIOs

10801 - Microsoft

10801 - America Online Inc. has decided not to fully support Microsoft's Sender ID spam-fighting plan citing intellectual property concerns from the Internet Engineering Task Force and the open-source community.

10801 - America Online and Yahoo plan to begin using technology to verify the source of e-mail messages in coming months as both companies work to stop spam e-mail.

10801 - While IP addresses in the U.S. made up just 28% of the spam-sending addresses in a survey by CipherTrust Inc.

10801 - Savvis Communications

10801 - At a Global Internet Project conference today

10801 - The technology hasn't been widely adopted

10801 - U.S. District Court Judge Charles Wolle awarded what is believed to be the largest spam judgment ever to Robert Kramer

10911 - Latest Linux news

11280 - Interview with David Kramer

1213 - A U.S. District Court judge turned down a request by Harris Interactive for a temporary restraining order that would have required the company to be removed from a list of e-mail spammers while a suit it filed is heard. [Computerworld]

1272 - Nearly 6 million people in 24 states have registered to have telemarketing calls blocked under new do-not-call laws. But that doesn't mean similar laws for spam could ever pass ... or be effective

1282 - Is your spouse dissatisfied with the size of your spam? A brand-new website has made several hundred thousand pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail available for you to download today.

1282 - A new breed of pop-up ads is appearing on Microsoft Windows users' computers. The so-called "Messenger spams" have security experts and system administrators scratching their heads and recipients fuming.

1282 - On Monday

1283 - The FTC now has the most complete spam database in the world

1283 - A supposedly Internet-savvy Republican candidate for governor of California

1283 - Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi remains barred from targeting Intel employees with bulk e-mail.

1283 - A new great wall is being built

1283 - As the tightest presidential campaign in 40 years enters its final weeks

1283 - A group of large email marketing companies proposed a detailed set of privacy standards Monday

1283 - Hundreds of unsuspecting AT&T wireless subscribers in April protested when spam trickled from their PCs to cellular phones. [Wired]

1283 - A dispute between a domain name registrar and a Web hosting company could set legal limits on accessing and using personal information on Internet whois databases. [Wired]

1283 - A domain name registrar has filed suit against a firm it claims illegally used its customer contact information in an aggressive marketing campaign of unsolicited email and phone calls. [Wired]

1283 - H.R. 3113

1283 - Last week

1283 - A Colorado legislative committee has passed a bill that would require spammers to tag unsolicited email with a special subject line. [Wired]

1284 - Carl Toups usually doesn't blink at unsolicited junk mail in his Hotmail account

1284 - The Chickenboners and the Lumber Cartel are waging a war over your email box. [Wired]

1284 - Jesus preached the gospel of turning the other cheek

1284 - In what some see as a perfect example of the evidence of cosmic retribution

1284 - An analysis of data from an e-mail filtering firm shows that more inboxes are being targeted with more junk than ever before. [Wired]

1284 - Strange things are afoot in blogland. Owners of weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam.

1367 - ReverseAuction has agreed to pay $1.2 million and to quit harvesting emails from eBay's site as part of a settlement agreement. [Wired]

1367 - Delegates at the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress roundly criticized Western systems administrators that are blocking all e-mail from China as a means to stop spam

1367 - The small city of Battle Creek

1367 - Spam and Internet fraud -- the twin plagues of the information age -- are getting stepped-up attention from federal and state agencies that say more joint effort from law enforcement groups is needed to curb the scourge that is online swindling.

1367 - Thirty-one percent of Americans change e-mail addresses each year

1367 - Before the rubble had even stopped smoking from Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C.

1367 - A small claims court judge in Bellevue

1367 - Attention

1367 - Auction site eBay has apparently decided that users of its service who said no really meant yes. So

1367 - EBay is either a scheming marketing company or an innocent victim of mass paranoia launched by a well-intentioned e-mail it sent to its users. [Wired]

1367 - When Ken Pugh sued the Elizabeth Dole for Senate campaign last month for sending him spam

1367 - ISPs are battling rogue spammers lurking in the back alleys and hidden corners of their networks. As the fighting heats up

1367 - Ask Hotmail users about their email accounts and most likely they will gripe how impossible it is to eliminate spam. [Wired]

1367 - A lawsuit charging Sprint with sending illegal

1377 - Hackers from around the world will converge on MIT on Friday to swap intelligence and marshal their collective brainpower for the fight against a seemingly indomitable opponent. This time it's not Microsoft

1377 - The Internet Research Task Force

1377 - The human gene pool should be incapable of producing enough idiots to financially support the vast number of spammers whose scat litters so many inboxes. Turns out

1382 - As if you weren't getting enough spam in your inbox -- now

14175 - In which users where asked "What do you use when failure is not an option?". Linux was choosen by 80 percent of respondance.

14175 - Article about Linux improvements now that Netscape Communications is playing the role of backer

14177 - Ziff-Davis enters the Linux news arena in a more focused way. Enhanced

14179 - Boscov's Department Stores make the move to Linux.

14179 - IBM ships a Linux only mainframe.

14179 - Article discussing what various types of organizations are currently doing and can be doing to curb spam.

14179 - Discusses advantages and disadvantages of Caldera OpenLinux eServer 2.3

14179 - Love it or hate

14179 - Linux is destined for more than servers

14179 - Dell moves to answer increased interest in Linux.

14622 - Special report

1510 - A group of 15 companies has announced that they will form a coalition to design e-mail standards to limit spam. Among the companies involved in the Responsible Electronic Communication. [PC World]

2000024981 - The federal government has issued its strongest indication yet it is unlikely to undertake decisive measures to combat the welter of spam plaguing Australia's e-mail inboxes.

2000024981 - In the days before Christmas the amount of spam e-mail being sent and received looks set to soar as marketing machines and e-greetings firms go into seasonal overdrive.

2000024993 - An alleged Australian spammer is suing an anti-spam advocate after being blacklisted by a spam prevention Web site

2000025001 - Migration from 96 servers running other solutions to 55 Linux machines

207/ - Linux clustering solutions will move from scientific applications into the boardroom and business arena

24/7 Media Snags Restraining Order Against MAPS - Ad server and technology company 24/7 Media succeeded in getting a temporary restraining order against anti-spam non-profit Mail Abuse Prevention System

289142 - "As long as people buy the products

2933 - E-mail users seeking relief from spam - unsolicited ads

3604 - The government is planning a clampdown on e-mail spam

3959 - Enterprises are looking again at Linux as a Windows alternative.

3959 - Price no longer the best reason to try OSS?

3973 - Thinking of switching to Linux? Get the details you need to make the transition painless.

4 - Network Solutions threatens to sue an antispam group if it adds them to a spam blacklist. [CNET]

4 - Yahoo blocks access to sites advertised in spam sent to its users. [CNET]

4096 - Overview of XML programming techniques

4273 - The British marketing industry has begun the fight back against European Union proposals to ban all unsolicited emails. [Guardian Unlimited]

4413 - PC Magazine article by Neil Randall who claims that XML is about to get better with the addition of a style mechanism: Extensible Style Language.

4586 - New technology nudges out Windows startup -- lets companies pitch services to new PC users.

4586 - Polling giant claims ISPs have been duped into blocking millions of its e-mails in an anti-spam scam cooked up by a rival. [ZDNet]

4586 - Study shows more users than expected blame their ISPs for spam. [ZDNet]

4586 - ORBS' proactive approach to fighting bulk e-mail may actually help spammers. But the group's chief critic is under the gun

4923 - Contains past press releases and a link to a corporation overview.

7204 - The direct marketing firm suing a Perth man for speaking out against spam has lost its internet access.

7204 - The Perth man at the centre of a legal dispute over anti-spam block-lists has claimed his innocence and asked for the case against him to be thrown out of court.

7204 - A Christian organisation has accused the company behind an anti-spam lawsuit of using its IP addresses without permission.

7204 - Microft loses several members of corporate Australia to Linux based solutions

7204 - Perth-based direct marketing firm T3 Direct is suing a man for allegedly getting the company on a black-list run by the SPEWS.org website.

7204 - Telstra has hit back at anti-spam groups for abusing their power to block IP ranges.

7204 - The anti-spam community has set up a fund to raise money for a legal battle with a Perth-based direct marketing company.

7204 - The Brumbies rugby union team has scored a try against Telstra after the telco sold them IP addresses discarded by a spammer and blocked by network administrators worldwide.

7496 - Internet service providers and permission-based marketing agencies are up in arms about the government's decision not to regulate against unsolicited commercial email or spam

90% Windows - Register article by a Newsforge regular about the "market share" of popular Operating Systems.

A Graphical User Interface for Erlang - Anders Frank and Ola Samuelsson. UU/CSD. (ps.gz)

A Brief History of the Green Project - Gosling's look back at the very beginning of Java.

A Closer Look - Looksmart's quarterly newsletter on how to use LookSmart's submission and advertising products. Includes information on strategies

A General Protocol Stack Interface in Erlang - Peter Andersson and Markus Kvisth. UU/CSD. (pdf)

A List Apart: Rated XHTML - Article by Peter-Paul Koch: "XHTML isn't about the present

A New Hope for Open Source and Java - Article by James Davidson.

A Practial Crash Course in Java 1.1 - Part One - Latest information and help from ACM Crossroads on JDK 1.1.3. Part One of a Two Part Article

A Practial Crash Course in Java 1.1 - Part Two - Latest information and help from ACM Crossroads on JDK 1.1.3. Part Two of a Two Part Article

A pragmatic approach to compilation of Erlang - Erik Johansson

A Programming Style for Java - A large number of heuristic guidelines for writing well-structured

A Quality Monitoring Framework - Geoff Wong

A staged tag scheme for Erlang - Mikael Pettersson. Department of Information Technology

A Study of Extensible Markup Language - Describes the XML effort

A Third of Work E-Mail Wastes Time - A new study finds at least 34 percent of e-mail messages at work contain irrelevant information. [ABCNEWS.com]

Abakus Search Engine Marketing News - Provides industry news

ABCNEWS.com: New Ways to Can Spam E-mail - New spam filter uses peer-to-peer networking tricks.

About - What is XHTML? - An article explaining XHTML in relation to XML and HTML.

About.com Visual Basic - Comprehensive collection of weekly features

AboveTheFold - Articles written about search engine news and the search engine marketing industry.

Absolute Java FAQ's Daily Tips - Publishes daily Java tips on the site and in newsletter (twice a week). The number of published tips exceeds 900.

Accenture's Digital Forum - Discussion of the Curl technology.

Accounting software company sees Linux demand from clients wary of Microsoft - Accounting company sees future for Linux desktops in companies.

ACM Crossroads: Extending Java to Support Shared Resource Protection and Deadlock Detection in Threads Programming - "Java threads enable programmers to write parallel programs very easily and conveniently. However

ACM Crossroads: Protecting Java Code via Code Obfuscation - "The Java language is compiled into a platform independent bytecode format. Much of the information contained in the original source code remains in the bytecode

ACM Crossroads: The Use of Java as an Introductory Programming Language - "During the fall of 1996

Active Server Pages For Dummies - Takes a humorous approach to teaching ASP programming covering the basics of scripting

Adrian Janson Publishing - Publishes educational programming texts for secondary students

Advanced Visual Basic 6 - Book by Kip Irvine and Kaiyang Liang. Useful files

aid - Web-hosting company won its battle against an antispam activist

aid - The problem of spam--how to get rid of it

aid - Opt-In Marketing Services challenges antispam efforts

aid - Can the alternative OS compete in a market already dominated by Palm and Microsoft?

All About Search Engines - Provides articles on search engine optimization techniques

AltaVista - Press Room - Recent press releases for AltaVista.

An Appreciation of Linux - Reviews of some Linux distributions.

An Integrated Approach to System Implementation - Martin Sandberg Linkoping University

Ananova: Study charts rising spam problem - Research suggests one in fourteen emails received in the UK so far this year has been spam.

andersja: Spam - An article about hyped mail-filtering products versus freely available SpamAssassin.

Another year - another Erlang Conference

Anti-Spam Bill Clears Key Hurdle - An anti-spam bill that could have a wide-reaching effect on online marketing is one step closer to becoming law following the U.S. House Commerce Committee's vote Wednesday. [E-Commerce Times]

Anti-spam group makes up with pollster - A controversial anti-spam group agrees to remove a polling and market research firm from its database of suspected junk e-mailers. [C|Net]

Anti-spam groups slam RECA proposal - Privacy and anti-spam activists have given two thumbs down to the latest attempt at self-regulation by the online marketing industry. [ZDNet]

Anti-Spammers Opt for Opt-In - A freshly launched company called Whitehat.com sets out to lead companies into marketing by email in a nice

Antislamming act draws fire - A House Commerce subcommittee today approved by voice vote the Consumer Antislamming Act

AOL set to deploy Linux - Media giant looks to cut costs with open source.

AOL spammer pleads guilty to forgery - A man who spammed millions of AOL subscribers with pornography and get-rich-quick schemes has pleaded guilty to second-degree forgery in a US District court. [The Register]

Apocryphal E-Mail Bedevils Va. Sender - She meant well. That's what Rose Lambert tells herself every morning when her e-mail folder begins to bulge with missives from around the globe

Articles and Papers From Erlang Training and Consulting Ltd. - Erlang/OTP Thesis

Articles on XML by Norman Walsh - Numerous articles about XML

ASD.com First Company in Tennessee to Win Anti-Spamming Case; First Judgment and Award Under the Anti-Spamming Statute in Tennessee - A Tennessee company wins a lawsuit under new state anti-spam legislation.

ASP Today - Collection of ASP articles from topics such as ASP+

ASP Wire - General news and articles.

AT&T admits spam offense after contract exposed - AT&T acknowledged Thursday that it had violated its own spam policy by providing Web-hosting services to a purported sender of unsolicited commercial email. [CNET.com]

AT&T spams Webmasters - AT&T spamed 1

atnewyork.com: Spam Expected to Outnumber Non-Spam - More than 30 percent of all e-mail is unsolicited and MessageLabs predicts that spam will continue its exponential growth into 2003

Axandra Weekly Search Engine Facts - Weekly newsletter covering search engine optimization techniques and search engine industry news.

Backlash for the blacklist - Skinny DuBaud's take on the demise of former spam relay blacklister ORBS. [C-NET]

Bank's faith in Linux pays dividends - Credit Suisse replaces Unix with Linux on mission-critical financial system.

Bazac - Search engines and search engine marketing news and articles.

BBC News: Spam 'turning people off e-mail' - People are starting to use e-mail less because of spam

BBC News: EU laws target junk mail spam - Consumers across Europe who have been plagued by junk e-mails and phone messages are being told that new laws are on the way to control them.

BBC News: Getting Tough On Spam - Unsolicited e-mail is becoming a problem for users and internet service providers.

BBC News: Hotmail puts squeeze on spam - Microsoft is taking action to cut down on the amount of spam reaching anyone with a Hotmail e-mail address.

BBC News: New York takes on 'spam' e-mail - Fresh from his victory over Merrill Lynch

BBC News: Nigeria grapples with e-mail scams - The Nigerian authorities declare war on the growing of number of fraudsters who use cyber cafes to send out phoney e-mails.

BBC News: The most annoying spam of 2002 - The most annoying spam purported to pass on to people free passwords for sex sites that usually levy a charge to look beyond the front page.

BBC News: The web bites back - Protesters are turning the tables on government officials and businessmen who they say are making the web less pleasant to use.

BBC News: US workers spared junk e-mails - Spam is not overwhelming the inboxes of US workers

BBC News: Using the net to catch junk mail - A Napster-like network might be able to stem the tide of spam mail messages flooding the internet.

BBC News: Why one spam could cost $50 - A US law firm has become the hero of the common people for its decision to take on the spam merchants who wage guerrilla warfare on our e-mail inboxes

BBC: E-mail makes surfers emotional - According to US-based net think-tank the Nielsen Norman Group

BBC: Spam poses threat to privacy - Workplace privacy will be casualty in war on spam.

Best Technical Support Award - InfoWorld declares the Linux user community to have the best technical support. Compares help Linux users give to each other as opposed to the amount of tech support offered by major corporations.

Beyond SEO - Offers free newsletter providing articles on search engine marketing methods with a section dedicated to answering questions.

Big Blue slips Linux into the oil industry - Three year deal moves oil companies to the penguin.

Bill aims to block wireless junk email - In our wireless world

Bitter Java - By Bruce Tate; includes forums

Bleeding At the Keyboard - Gregory Rawlins text of step by step guide on learning Java.

Boston.com: Spammers' scavenging e-mail virus surfaces on Net - A new computer virus capable of harvesting millions of e-mail addresses from infected PCs was rapidly spreading across the Internet Monday

Brightmail Debuts Wireless Anti-Spam 'Mailwall' - Seeking to protect wireless e-mail users from spam and viruses

Bugzilla - Open-source bug tracking software

Builder.com - Java - Java-related articles within CNET Networks.

Building Imaging Applications with Java Technology: Using AWT Imaging - Java 2D

Burlington Coat Factory gets deeper into Linux - Out with the old Sequent servers

C/C++ Users Journal - Java Solutions supplement - Bi-monthly supplement provides working solutions for advanced Java programmers.

Cafe au Lait Java - FAQ

Can Mandrake raise money by being your team? - Newsforge article says Mandrake soft is considering an IPO.

Can Spam Ever Be Stopped? - Activists decry a loophole in proposed U.S. anti-spam laws that would allow each spammer to send one unsolicited e-mail before an ISP could take action against the spammer. [E-Commerce Times]

Can you install Linux? I think I can - Linux may be leading the open-source movement but is it the software for the people? It depends. Would you recognize a video card if it jumped off a motherboard? [CNN]

Card Access and Security System - Entry-Master product line of Access Control

cat - News related to major search engines.

Catching the Curl - Article by Erika Jonietz in Technology Review.

CBC News: Anti-spam laws needed in Canada: telemarketing org. - The head of the Canadian Marketing Association (CMA) is calling for legislation to protect consumers from unsolicited e-mail

CBS News: Internet experts battle spam - Hundreds of computer programmers gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently

CF Advisor - Subscription based ColdFusion magazine. Includes full text of news

CFMCentral - Book reviews

Changing Networks Need Functional Languages - Article at Embedded.com.

Charles F. Goldfarb's XMLbooks.com - A comprehensive listing of all books related to XML by one of the inventors of SGML

Chicago Tribune: Resume vaults local techie into spam battlefield - Think twice before sending a tartly worded e-mail or prepare for a battle of near-biblical proportions like the one being waged on Chicago computer consultant Bernard Shifman. [Requires free chicagotribune.com registration to view.]

ChiMu OO and Java Development: Guidelines and Resources - Detailed tutorial by Mark Fussel on coding including concepts of object-oriented programming and coding style.

Chinese search engine - Chinese search engine news and top stories

Christian Science Monitor: 'White lists' emerge as a tool for consumers in fight against spam - Americans are discovering that the broad effort to fight spam can backfire.

Christian Science Monitor: War on e-mail spam ratchets up in courts - A lawsuit against spam on the Internet is part of a larger effort to control the proliferation of unsolicited e-mail.

Cisco iQ: The Charlie Rose Interview: Linus Torvalds - Open source instigator Linus Torvalds speaks with Charlie Rose about the past

City sees the appeal of Linux - London follows New York's open source adoption.

CNET- Server sellers bang Linux drum - With the exception of Microsoft

CNET.com: Anti-spam Group Bocks Yahoo Stores - An anti-spam group has put Yahoo's storefronts on its list of suspected junk e-mailers

CNET.com: Anti-spam service battles bugs - A new anti-spam service launched with much fanfare this week is facing some technical hurdles out of the gate and frustration from the community it relies on to fight junk mail.

CNET.com: Antivirus firm takes on junk e-mail - Antivirus company Trend Micro is jumping into the antispam fray

CNET.com: AOL awarded millions in spam case - A Virginia federal court awarded America Online nearly $7 million in damages as part of the Internet service providers' legal victory over a junk e-mail operation

CNET.com: AT&T admits spam offense after contract exposed - AT&T acknowledged Thursday that it had violated its own spam policy by providing Web-hosting services to a purported sender of unsolicited commercial email.

CNET.com: AT&T spam filter loses valid e-mail - AT&T WorldNet this week activated a risky spam-filtering technique that it shortly had to defuse after subscribers discovered they were losing legitimate e-mail.

CNET.com: Congress - Spam may be an unwanted staple in your in-box

CNET.com: Consumer groups fight spam epidemic - A coalition of consumer groups plans to ask the federal government to rescue people from the deluge of unwanted commercial mail that clogs their inboxes and sucks up their time.

CNET.com: EU body pushes spam guidelines - The European Parliament has signed off on sweeping guidelines for Internet regulation

CNET.com: Free speech or campaign spam? - California gubernatorial candidate Bill Jones is back online after his Web-hosting service shut down his campaign Internet site in protest over a mass e-mail that some outraged recipients compared to spam.

CNET.com: Group to field spam-filter complaints - A group of e-mail marketers on Tuesday set up an Internet forum for people to air grievances about spam filters--which can swallow legitimate messages along with the targeted commercial come-ons.

CNET.com: Groups seek federal action on spam - Spam has become such a menace to the Internet that the Federal Trade Commission should take swift steps to stanch the flow of bulk e-mail

CNET.com: If it's spam - When Emily Sachar got back from vacation recently

CNET.com: Inside the spammer's world - Recent court decisions upholding laws against unsolicited e-mails will increasingly focus attention on a few individuals who send out the majority of such unwanted advertising messages.

CNET.com: Is your e-mail watching you? - Watch out--the spam choking your e-mail in-box may be loaded with software that lets marketers track your moves online

CNET.com: Marketing group scrapes off spam label - The Direct Marketing Association has created mandatory ground rules for members sending sales pitches via e-mail

CNET.com: Microsoft going after Hotmail spammers - Microsoft is turning up the heat on spam

CNET.com: MSN blocks e-mail from rival ISPs - Microsoft's MSN said its e-mail services had blocked some incoming messages from rival Internet service providers earlier this week

CNET.com: Porn spam--legal minefield for employers - Lewd e-mail promoting pornography may soon pose more than just a technical challenge in the ongoing fight against spam--experts say it's set to become an acute legal problem

CNET.com: Public access to FTC hurt by spam lists - When Josh Tinnin tried to send e-mail to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this month

CNET.com: Spam blocker charges for e-mail - An Australian entrepreneur has created what may be the first antispam service that lets its users charge for the privilege of sending them e-mail.

CNET.com: Spam filter a career killer? - A meeting reminder from the boss

CNET.com: Spam suit rings on Sprint - Sprint Communications is facing a lawsuit in Utah alleging that it sent unsolicited commercial messages

CNET.com: Spam suits seek poetic justice - Antispam company Habeas is suing bulk e-mailers

CNET.com: Standards group takes aim at spam - An influential Internet standards-setting body has begun a close scrutiny of the mounting problem of e-mail spam

CNET.com: Start-up wants your help to fight spam - Ordinary Web surfers could play a major role in stemming the rising tide of junk e-mail crippling the Net

CNET.com: Surviving in spam's shadow - For Janine Popick

CNET.com: The DMA's doublespeak on spam - Robert Wientzen

CNET.com: Yahoo users fume over "spam" switch - Some Yahoo members on Friday reacted angrily to changes in the Web portal's e-mail marketing practices

CNET.com: You've got spam - Corporate networks are becoming increasingly clogged by e-mail pitches for pornography

CNET: Fat times for spam - In September

CNET: Spam doesn't kill appetite for e-mail - Spam hasn't killed enthusiasm for e-mail among U.S. workers

CNET: Spam: It's more than bulk e-mail - Consumers are increasingly applying the stigma of spam to marketing messages of all stripes

CNET: Spammers slipping ads through Windows - Spammers have co-opted an administration feature in Microsoft's Windows operating systems and are using it to bring up intrusive advertisements on Internet-connected computers.

CNN.com - Is Linux poised to topple Microsoft? - A combination of Microsoft dislike and "no secrets" open source threatens the monopoly.

CNN: Euro ministers agree on spam 'n' cookies - European telecommunication ministers have agreed that unsolicited e-mail and wireless text messages should be prohibited under a new data protection law.

CNN: Java kept alive by big money - Big business provides most of the market for Java.

Code Compilation for Erlang - Erik Johansson and Christer Jonsson. UU/CSD. (ps.gz)

Code Mobility - demonstrated in a GSM mobile phone - A thesis looking at general purpose GSM phones which can be updated on the fly. Jon Larsson

Cold Fusion 4.5 for Linux: A Review - Addressing the Enterprise - With the release of Cold Fusion Server 4.5 for Linux

ColdFusion Developer's Journal - Features articles

ColdFusion Pro News - Offers expert advice on both the basic and the advanced features of ColdFusion

Comparison of SGML and XML - This W3C discussion paper outlines the differences between SGML and XML.

Compiling Erlang via C - Geoff Wong

Complete Results Marketing Newsletter - Weekly updated news about Internet marketing

ComputerUser - Linux - Articles and Linux news

Computerworld: Emerging Companies 2002 - List of Computerworld's top companies to watch in the year 2002.

Concurrent Functional Programming with Erlang and OTP (Open Telecom Platform) - Bjarne Däcker. Real-Time in Sweden

Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns - Excellent Java threads tutorial book from The Java Series by Doug Lea (Addison-Wesley). Covers programming with Java threads in detail

Congress Takes On Spam - The e-attention of Washington lawmakers is turning to the scourge of unsolicited email. Will this result in useful legislation

Consumer watchdogs fail the Spam Test - Report on European consumer watchdog groups with no spam policies. [The Register]

Core Erlang - An intermediate representation of Erlang

Core Java Media Framework - by Linden deCarmo. Book home page with table of contents

Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages - Includes complete PDF version of Sun Microsystems Press servlet/JSP text. Coverage of servlets 2.2 and JSP 1.1. Also includes source code from book

Core Web Programming - In-depth Java 1.1

Core Web Programming 2nd Edition - by Marty Hall and Larry Brown. Book home page with sample content and complete archive of Java source code.

Could You Get Fired for Choosing Linux? - Article with numerous follow up posts. Covers the usual arguaments for/against Linux.

Create a Linux based Network for peanuts - A functioning workstation for little or no money on older hardware? It can be done

Creating a 3D Universe with Java3D - "Java3D is part of the Java Media APIs and enables Java programmers to develop large interactive 3D universes... The APIs also include support for 3D sound functionality." Published in Crossroads

Creating a Simple - Multithreaded Chat System with Java

CRN: Constructing a Windowless Office - Matches and compares Linux options to what were once considered Windows tasks.

Crossroads 2002 A-List Award - The Crossroads 2002 A-List Awards signal technologies that have achieved results from early adopters and are ready for consideration by mainstream users.

Crossroads 6 - 1 - This is the Fall 1999 issue of Crossroads

ctnow.com: Spam King Living High In The Bayou - Lunchtime finds the 29-year-old Scelson sitting cross-legged on the floor of his storefront TV repair shop while he munches on a takeout meal of boiled crawfish and spiced shrimp.

Curl shows way to better GUIs - Review about Curl Corporation and their market position

Curl Takes Web Apps to Clients - EWeek magazine

Cyberstalking and Internet Safety FAQ - A short list of questions and answers written by Rachel R. Hartman. Includes some links to other resources.

Data protection: "Junk" e-mail costs internet users 10 billion a year worldwide - Internet subscribers world-wide are unwittingly paying an estimated &

Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Java - Book by Bruno R. Preiss. Online version

Dbasupport.com Online - Caters to Oracle Database Administrators by providing on-line content related to database administration

DBMS Magazine - Full text of the leading magazine for planners and builders of data-centric applications. Read about application development tools

DebianPlanet - The latest Debian GNU/Linux and Hurd related news

Definitive Guide to Swing for Java 2 - By John Zukowski (Apress).

Definitive Guide to Swing for Java 2 (review) - DevX review of book from Claude Duguay.

Definitive XML Schema - Author's Site - Information about the book Definitive XML Schema by Priscilla Walmsley. Includes errata and downloadable schema examples.

Definitive XML Schema: Author's Site - Information about the book Definitive XML Schema by Priscilla Walmsley. Includes errata and downloadable schema examples.

Defusion - News

Dept. of Homeland Security site switches to Linux from Windows 2000 - Dumping Windows for Linux over security concerns?

Design for Open Systems in Java - Seminal paper on the demise of "absolute" encapsulation and transparency as an ideal.

Design Issues for a High Reliability Environment for Erlang - Maurice Castro

Design patterns for simulations in Erlang/OTP - Ulf Ekström. CSD/UU. (pdf)

Design Principles for XML - Ten key points explaining the rationale of the language.

Designing XML Internet Applications - Introduces the language as an alternative to HTML. Explains how to think about structured information within the system

Desktop Dreams - Linux on the desktop in the Wake of MandrakeSoft's Bankruptcy.

Despite Foes - Even though there are now some state laws closely regulating spamming

Detroit Free Press: Behind the scenes - Bloomfield Township spam artist Alan Ralsky is in the midst of yet another controversy

Detroit Free Press: Internet spammer can't take what he dishes out - West Bloomfield bulk e-mailer Alan Ralsky

Developing Java Servlets (review) - Java Coffee Break review of "Developing Java Servlets" by James Goodwill

DevX Java Zone - A variety of EJB java articles and resources

Direct mail double cross? - A 'Spam Summit' highlights the differences between the actions of the Direct Marketers' Association and the desires of the anti-spam community. [Salon Technology}

Distributed Computation with Java Remote Method Invocation - An introduction of distributed computing with Java Remote Method Invocation

Distribution news: Debian Weekly News - Debian specific news and links. Updates weekly.

Distribution news: Stampede Linux - Stampede specific news. Updates monthly/event-driven.

Do women need an OS of their own? - LinuxChix debate the merits of a female-orientated operating system. [ZDNN]

DocBook: The Definitive Guide - Online companion site of this O'Reilly publication and partial mirror site of OASIS site for DocBook.

donga.com: 4 Million Won Penalty to 5 Companies Distributed `Spam mails` Indiscrimately. - 5 companies including adult broadcasting companies and shopping malls that have sent `Spam mails` ignoring the rejection of the receivers were imposed to correctional fines.

donga.com: Compulsory Notice of `Adult Advertisement` for Sexual Spam Mails - The advertising mails containing bad things for juveniles like sexual and violent contents should attach the notice of `Ads for Adults` to the title from July.

donga.com: Spam Mail with False Title to be Punished - The person who sends e-mails without an indication of advertisement or containing false exaggerated ads will be punished of suspension of business license or criminal punishment from May.

Dr Dobb's Journal: Java Coverage - Features articles from print edition of publication.

Dr. Dobb's Journal: Inside the REBOL Scripting Language - From the Distributed Computing issue

E-Commerce News: FTC Shuts Down 9-11 Spam Scam - The U.S. District Court ordered the immediate shutdown of a Web site owned by a European spam outfit for bilking more than $1 million from customers

E-Mail Delays Plague Verizon Users - Company Blames Network Troubles on a Flood of 'Spam' [Washington Post]

E-mail overload drives many users bananas - Try to imagine your e-mail in-box accumulating 300 to 600 messages - not while you are away on vacation

E-mails laden with real news -- and rumors - The stock market was plummeting Monday. Everything was crazy. And as if that weren't enough

Easier install makes Red Hat 5.1 even more appealing - An InfoWorld review of the Red Hat distribution version 5.1.

EBay investigating spam scam - Picture this: Luxury accommodations on a world-class cruise ship. Free dinner for two. Free drinks. Las Vegas-style entertainment and dancing. Sound too good to be true? You bet it is. [CBS.MarketWatch.com]

eBay sellers say new anti-spam system is backfiring - The auction giant's new system that was designed to limit spam is forcing some sellers to weed through even more junk mail to find legitimate messages from bidders. [c|net]

eBay To Get $1.2M in Spam Settlement - eBay

EC: An Erlang Compiler - The EC compiler generates native machine code for Erlang programs. Maurice Castro

Economist.com- Linux gets a break - For the first time in years

Email Spam News - Topix.net - News on spam collected from diverse sources on the web.

Ericsson Open Source Announcement - Notice that appeared in Erlang online news.

Erlang - An Open Source Language for Robust Distributed Applications - article by Dr Lawrie Brown.

Erlang - OTP Life Cycle Costs - Research project with the University of Technology

Erlang and OTP - Ericsson's pathway into open systems - Article in Contact Magazine.

Erlang and the Great Computer Language Shootout - Notes by James Hague on optimizing the Erlang benchmarks.

Erlang becomes Open Source - article at Slashdot.

Erlang Cookbook - Following the Perl Cookbook

Erlang for Soft Real Time Distributed Systems involving Different Network Nodes - Helen Airiyan

Erlang On Line Book - Volunteers are needed to help write a new Erlang book. Proposal of its contents and discussions are available at this site.

Erlang Projects: SERC - Technical Reports on Erlang from SERC in Melbourne

Erlang/OTP Publications - This page managed by Ericsson contains articles

Erlang/OTP släpps fritt - Article in Ericsson's Kontakten

Essential Java Style : Patterns for Implementation - Learn about design patterns

EU Says 'No To Spam - In an attempt to foster e-commerce

Euro spam vote in limbo - The European parliament has bungled its latest attempt to outlaw spam. [The Register]

Europe bottles spam ban - A European committee has blocked plans to outlaw unsolicited commercial email dealing a major blow to anti-spam supporters. [The Register]

Europe to ban spam? - An influential body of data protection experts could be about to recommend that Europe bans spam. [The Register]

Europe warms to spam ban - Lobbyists for the European Internet industry believe their campaign for a ban on spam is gaining momentum. [The Register]

Evaluation of HiPE - an Erlang Native Code Compiler

Evil spammers jailed for two years - Two Los Angeles men are to go to jail for their part in a bulk email scam which duped 12

eWeek: Linux - Linux and open source articles and reviews

Exchange & Outlook Administrator Newsletter - Discussion groups

Exokernels - Protocol Implementation and Erlang

Extending Erlang with structured module packages - Richard Carlsson. Department of Information Technology

Extension of Erlang with Finite Domain Constraints - Greger Ottosson. UU/CSD. (ps.gz)

fantomNews(tm) - Features articles and serialized tutorials on cloaking and web site optimization. Industry news

Fast Search & Transfer - Press releases for FAST.

Feds Can no Longer Ignore Linux - There may come a day when government IT managers realize the cost savings of not having to pay for an OS license for every desktop and server. [CNN]

Focus on Java Programming - Online introductory Java textbook complete with Java source code. By William Wagers and David J. Eck.

Framework for SNMPv2 in Erlang - Martin Björklund and Klas Eriksson. KTH/NADA. (ps.gz)

FreeTechBooks: Java Programming Language - Annotated list of free online programming books. Topics range from beginner to advanced. Descriptions

French Articles - Erlang articles in French at the erlang-fr.org site

FreshMeat - Unix news site that keeps up with latest application releases. Slick customizable interface. Local mirrors of major packages. Past news indexed

FTC slams 'spam' - FTC study details the burden of junk e-mail. Report recommends spammers not be permitted to disguise their addresses. [CNN]

Functional Programming Comes of Age - Article in Byte Magazine

Fusion Authority - A "clearing house" for ideas and information of interest to the Cold Fusion and general Internet community. You may also subscribe to their Weekly News Alert email newsletter.

Fuzzy 'censorship' gripes make real thing possible - An article about what free speech is.

Gamelan.com Java Journal - Features tutorials and articles from Java developers.

Garbage collection in Java - Artciel by Vladimir Pavlovic. Garbage collection agorithms: stop and copy

GCA Bookstore - Information

Geek Portal - News portal for up-to-date news of interest to geeks.

German city drops Windows for Linux - A community of 36

Germany likes Linux - The Linux operating system is making significant inroads into Germany

globetechnology.com: Spam slammed in survey - People who get hysterical over the spam they find in their inboxes have good reason to be upset

GNU What's New - Updates daily/weekly; and GNU's newsletter 2x/year.

gnu-linux.net - Weekly Linux News Updates and Linux Links

Google Press Releases - Contains contact information

Governments push open-source software - Concerned with costs and dependency

Govt move on to let in Linux - The Economic Times - India ushers in a Linux wave.

GPRS Support Nodes - Lars Ekeroth

Grassroots Linux grows (InfoWorld) - An article that contains stories of different companies that have started using Linux. Also contains a section on "How to pick your Linux" which states the advantages of different distributions and links to their homepages.

GUI Builder for Erlang/GS - Peter Molin and Fredrik Ström. UU/CSD. (ps.gz)

HACK.gr Linux Corner - Auto-magically updated hourly

Hackers - Theoretically

Harris Interactive Files Suit Against AOL - Mainly an attack on MAPS

Hotmail spam filters block outgoing e-mail - Ben Johnson has been sending e-mail for months from his Hotmail account

House approves anti-spam legislation - The House of Representatives today passed the first bill that will hold email marketers accountable for the influx of bulk unsolicited email

Houston Chronicle: Europe outlaws spam - Like most people

Houston Chronicle: Legislating against spam proves a rocky road - The European Union has a law banning unsolicited junk e-mail. Japan has one restricting pitches sent to wireless devices. And the United States?

Houston Chronicle: Spammed! Part II: Despite vigilantes - More than pop-up ads or in-your-face Web graphics

HoustonChronicle.com - Spam - Three-part article about the problem

How to Find the Best XML Server - What to look for when choosing methodologies and software.

How to improve the performance of YECC generated Erlang (JAM) parsers - Torbjorn Tornkvist

How to Measure Reliability in an Erlang System - Hans Danielsson

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Java Version - Open Book Project links to many versions

How valid is the IDC data? - Should the Microsoft TCO information be trusted?

How XML is Changing the Future of Business - This easy to understand article provides an overview of XML.

HP-Compaq's Great Software Challenge - What will CEO Carly Fiorina do about its gaggle of operating systems? The decision could confirm her vision and make Linux a huge winner. Business Week Online.

I Don't Like Spam - by Jeff Johnson [CPSR]

IBM and Linux: the dinosaurs and the penguin - How IBM is making a comeback with Linux. The Register.

IBM Mulls Linux For Its PCs - IBM may soon start packing its PCs with the open-source Linux operating system. IBM's Linux initiative has so far been limited to its servers and workstations.

ICE-News: Java - Index to currently running Java news on the Web.

ICFP 2001 Contest Results - Article at Slashdot. Erlang Hackers win the Judge's prize for an Erlang program.

Ideas2work - Articles and pattern implemenations in Java.

IDGNet New Zealand: ING reaches out from beyond the grave - Internet Name Group

IE5 Dynamic HTML Programmer's Reference - Combination primer and reference manual specific to Microsoft Internet Explorer 5's implementation of DHTML. [Amazon.com]

IKEA enlists friends for email publicity - Home furnishing retailer IKEA has a new spin on spam

Implementing CDF Channels - Channel Definition Format is a protocol for updating information on the Web. Aimed at the web programmer

In Defense of Spam - No one will admit to liking spam -- the canned pseudo-meat or the unsolicited e-mail that bears its name. But despite the current efforts of governments in North America and Europe to get it back into the can

In search of the best Java book for beginners - A JavaWorld comparative review of 7 intro-programming language books.

IndexOS - Linux and alternative OS web portal for organizations to publish press releases to the vast market that is the alternative OS community.

Industry group cooks up rules for spam - Complaints about unsolicited commercial email have prompted an industry coalition to come up with standards designed to quell consumer concerns and keep regulators at bay. [CNET.com]

InfoWorld Interview with Linus Torvalds - Linus Torvalds talks economics and operating systems in this interview with Mike Vizard of InfoWorld. Focuses mainly on how Linux is affecting the way people look at the future of operating systems and economics models that drive the industry.

InfoWorld's OS of the Year - The Red Hat Linux distribution wins InfoWorld's OS of the Year for 1997. Contains a small synopsis of the distributions strengths.

Inktomi Press Releases - Press releases for Inktomi

Integrators Upbeat About New E-Commerce Application - Web integrators

Interfacing Java with Native Code - An investigation of the efficiency of different techniques for moving data across the Java native interface. Includes a suggestion for extending JNI for efficient lightweight calls.

Internet Search Engine Database - Search engine news and articles dealing with search engine marketing and optimization.

Internet Search Engine Database Newsletter - Weekly newsletter delivers listings of new search engines included in the database

internetnews.com: DMA Releases International Anti-Spam Law Summary - The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) released a summary of the spam laws in 41 countries and the European Union.

internetnews.com: DMA Urges Schumer to Drop Do-Not-E-mail List Clause - The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) yesterday urged its members to ask New York Sen. Charles Schumer to drop his proposal for a do-not-e-mail registry.

Internetnews: FTC Plans Crackdown on 9-11 Spam - Spam is one of the Internet's dirty little secrets

Internetnews: FTC to Pursue Deceptive E-mail Advertisers - The Federal Trade Commission is planning to announce a series of actions against suspected spammers in coming weeks.

Internetnews: It's All Perfectly Illegal - The seven werpetrators agreed to settle charges that they were spamming consumers with deceptive chain letters. Financial terms of the settlements were not disclosed.

Interview: Carl Sassenrath on REBOL - Its creator talks about it

Introducing SERC's safer Erlang - Article by L. Brown

Introduction to Erlang - Pesentation by Dimitri Fontaine at the Libro Software Meeting

Introduction to XML For Web Developers - Making a well-formed XML document valid by using a DTD. (Selena Sol)

IOS - Another REBOLution

IP Delivery - Search engine personalization software designed to prevent web pages from being copied by cloaking actual source code.

IRT Java Articles - Mainly covering applets.

ISPs and Spam Enforcement... - Where CAN you go next if your ISP refuses to do something about the growing amount of SPAM in your inbox? [Slashdot]

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that Swing: A comparative - Find out on a JavaWorld review which -- if any -- of four Swing books delivers the goods on this complex and integral part of the JDK.

IT World: XML in Practice - Online newsletter containing the latest industry news on XML.

J2EE and JAX: Developing Web Applications and Web Services - Includes updates and supplemental material

J2EE Blueprints - Online version of book from Sun that covers "best practices" for developing and deploying enterprise applications using enterprise Java technologies including servlets

J2EE Project Dangers - Analyzes the top 10 dangers that threaten the success of all enterprise Java projects and outlines some ways to avoid them. By Humphrey Sheil

J2EE Security for Servlets - EJBs and Web Services

Java - ACM Crossroads Java feature articles

Java 2 Version 1.4 SDK Documentation - Specification and documentation for JavaTM 2 SDK

Java as a First Language - Offers text to Java an Object First Approach and A Java GUI Programmer's Primer

Java AWT Layout Management - Abstract Window Toolkit - Instruction on the use of the AWT with sections on Frames

Java Book Reviews - from the "Java Coffee Break"

Java Boutique Presents: Java News - Features some limited Java news

Java Coffee Break - A free guide to the world of Java programming

Java Coffee Break Articles - Features free articles

Java Collections - By John Zukowski (Apress).

Java Developer's Journal - Features a small selection of online articles from their print magazine

Java Developers Almanac 1.4 - Includes code examples from book organized by package.

Java for beginners - Book by Johan Mossberg. Learn to write programs using the java programming language easy and efficient with this book. Chapter 1-8 in PDF file. Example sources.

Java in a Nutshell - Comprehensive API and language reference for the full Java 2 Platform. From O'Reilly.

Java in a Nutshell - Popular fast-moving tutorial from O'Reilly

Java Network Programming - 2nd edition

Java network programming books: A comparative review - JavaWorld review of 5 Java network programming books.

Java News Center - Collects headlines from different Java sites around the net. It's possible to get the latest news or to search for a specific topic.

Java Newsletter Back Issues - Back issues of Glen McCluskey's Java newsletters

Java on Slashdot - News and discussion forums about Java.

Java Power Source - Tutorial and reference book by Charles Buhrmann and Luis Gonzalez. Excerpts

Java Precisely - A concise quick reference to the Java 2 Platform

Java Precisely - Homepage of book. The book gives a concise description of the Java programming language. Examples sources. Old versions of book online in PDF and Postcript formats.

Java Pro Magazine - Includes articles from print magazine

Java Programming: From the Beginning - By K. N. King. Assumes no previous programming experience. Includes over 700 review questions

Java Review - A review of the Java platform including J2EE and web services sections. Includes sample programs and screenshots.

Java Security - 2nd edition

Java Security: Hostile Applets - Holes

Java server performance: A case study of building efficient - scalable Jvms

Java Servlet Programming - 2nd Edition

Java Servlet Technology - Chapter from J2EE tutorial book on the 2.3 API.

Java Servlets by Example - Table of contents and publisher information.

Java Skyline - An online magazine for Java Server Developers.

Java Skyline: News - News and links to news sources on software design

Java Swing - By Robert Eckstein

Java Thread Programming - Covers aspects of multithreaded programming in Java. Teaches readers how to effectively and safely build multithreaded applications. Written for Java 2

JavaBeans Book Review - JavaWorld review of 3 JavaBeans books.

Javable Daily Java News - Everyday news items on Java

JavaGently - Third Edition - Homepage of book by Judith Bishop. Discussion board and FAQ. Examples and downloads.

JavaPlease! - Support site for Java workbook in MS PowerPoint format. Example slides. Ordering information.

JavaRanch Campfire Stories - Stories include "Getting in Touch with Your Inner Class" and "How my Dog learned Polymorphism".

JavaWorld - Hands-on

JavaWorld Java book reviews - A collection of all of the book reviews by the editors and writers of JavaWorld

JDBC - Java Database Connectivity - Using the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) interface to connect to and utilise a database from within Java

JDBC and Java database programming books: A comparative review - Review of 7 JDBC books by JavaWorld.

JDBC Database Access With Java: A Tutorial and Annotated Reference - Title from The Java Series by Graham Hamilton

JMX: Managing J2EE with Java Management Extensions - By Marc Fleury and Juha Lindfors; includes table of contents and book source.

Joe's Advice - In his presentation

JoongAng Daily: Nearly 1 - Internet shopping malls were the biggest culprits in sending unwanted commercial mail or infringing on privacy last year

JSP versus ASP - A short comparison of Active Server Pages and JavaServer Pages from a web developer's point of view.

Junk e-mail eradicated? - Online marketing - sometimes called spamming - is trying to clean up its act - so don't mention the S word. [BBC News]

Just XML - Feeling threatened by XML's "new view" of the Web? Don't be. Table of Contents

Keyword Hawk - Bimonthly focused on PPC and keyword marketing techniques. Accompanied by search engine industry news.

Lab to offer open-source Java-based FPGA tool - By Richard Goering. A new approach to FPGA design is unfolding at the Configurable Computing Laboratory at Brigham Young University (BYU)

Learn Java by Association with C - Cobol

LearningOracle.com - Selection of Oracle books for beginning and advanced application developers

Leverage legacy systems with a blend of XML - XSL

Li'l Engine - Offers optimization strategies

Librenix - Linux news and information.

Linear Scan Register Allocation in the HiPE compiler. - Erik Johansson and Konstantinos Sagonas. Presented at the International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP 2001)

Linux Answers Magazine - A British Linux magazine (hardcopy and online). Contains online tutorials

Linux Applications and Utilities Page - A large indexed collection of pointers to Linux applications

Linux Bin Dot Com - Latest news

Linux Broker - Linux newsgroups can be browsed online

Linux code co-op - IBM

Linux comes of age - Low cost and stability make open-source system an attractive choice.

Linux Community's LiveJournal - A LiveJournal community: group of users and developers that share advice

Linux Daily News - Linux Weekly News' daily update.

Linux daily news and research centre - Kieser.net sponsors this site dedicated to Linux news

Linux Focus - News

Linux future scales out - As software companies continue to pour millions into scaling Linux for the enterprise

Linux Gazette - Non-commercial online web publication dedicated to two simple ideas: Making Linux just a little more fun

Linux Gears up to Challenge Windows on Desktop - With more stability

Linux Home Page - News links of interest to Linux enthusiasts and advocates

Linux in the spotlight - Review of the Taos Tech Talk with Linus by EETimes.

Linux in the UK - Alan Cox's

Linux Journal - The monthly magazine of the Linux community

Linux lands big bank account - European IT operations ditch Windows to cut costs.

Linux Lords - Linux news

Linux loves the slow economy - Explains the benefits of a soft economy to the adoption of free software and to Linux in particular.

Linux Magazine: Chronicle of the Revolution - Monthly Linux print magazine striving to inform all levels of users: many tips for newcomers

Linux makes strides in enterprise market - In an environment of budget pressures

Linux manufacturing a lead in Asia - Linux is becoming the dominant platform in Asian heavy industry.

Linux Med News - Event calendar and news about open source medical software.

Linux NetMag - English/German free e-zine: articles on software

Linux News - Topix.net - News on Linux collected from diverse sources on the web.

Linux news powered by Mandrake - News portal working for keeping the world informed on Linux.

Linux News WebSite - This Linux NewsWebSite is very often updated and it informs about almost all Linux News. It also includes a LinuxSearchEngine.

Linux picking up database steam - Computer Associates and possibly Informix will make databases for Linux.

Linux PR - Press Release and Public Relations resource for the Linux community.

Linux Resources - Run by Linux Journal: news items

Linux Still on the Rise - Microsofts heavy handed tactics push Linux adoption.

Linux switch saves Amazon megabucks - Amazon.com changes to Linux and reaps savings.

Linux throws down gauntlet to Windows - smh.com.au - The Linux operating system has made impressive gains on corporate servers

Linux Today - News

Linux Weekly News - Comprehensive 5-part layout. Updates weekly.

Linux Weekly News - Articles about security

Linux Winning The War of Perception - As far as IBM is concerned Linux has become mainstream and it is doing mainstream business.

Linux.com - A Linux Success Story - Detailed account of how one dot.com business leveraged the flexibility and freedom of Linux to pursue a non-proprietary company solution.

Linux.org: Linux in the news - Another listing of press articles. Updates every few days.

Linux: Penguin suitability - Open operating system Linux would love to bolster its success in big back-end servers with a slice of the lucrative desktop market. Windows' licensing pitch may be the penguin's invitation to the party.

LinuxAtHome - Linux news and help for broadband internet users.

LinuxDailyNews.com - Aggregated headlines from the Independent Linux and Open Source Network.

LinuxDig.com - Linux News and Resource site.

LinuxGram - Industry news

LinuxIsle - Beginners and experts alike come together to share knowledge and experiences.

LinuxNews.com - The site for Linux News

Linuxpower - Collection of articles

LinuxUser - UK magazine written for key IT decision makers and professionals within organisations which use Linux

LinuxWebDevNews.com - Daily Web development news for Linux users.

LinuxWorld - News and editorial content for IS professionals. Updated often

LinuxWorld.com interview with Linus Torvalds - Joe Barr asks Linus about 2.4

LinuxWorld.com.au - Australia's source for Linux news

LinuxWorld: A REBOL incursion - Article based on Carl Sassenrath phone interview.

LinuxZone.Org- Your Linux Portal - Linux portal with Linux News

List of Master's Theses at Uppsala University - Uppsala University has had many theses written on Erlang.

LookSmart Press Room - Contains the latest news about LookSmart's business developments

Louis Jean-Richard: Case Studies and Reports - Case Studies & Reports within Information Technologies section article "First steps with XML: extending HTML via XSLT"

Lykkenborg eZine - Java articles

Maccentral: Buffalo spammer gets 3.5 to 7 years - A New York man convicted of using the network of Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. to send out hundreds of millions of unsolicited commercial (spam) e-mail was sentenced to between three-and-a-half and seven years in prison Thursday

Mail Abuse Prevention Organization Stands Up to Giant Harris Interactive - MAPS

Major ISPs Boot Spammers - As a result of intense pressure from anti-spam activists

Making Linux Work in the Workplace: Installing Linux Mandrake - Compares to Windows NT Server 4.0 installation including user comments.

MAPS vs Exactis - Mail Abuse Prevention System lists Exactis mail servers in Realtime Blackhole List (RBL); Exactis files lawsuit. [MAPS press release]

MAPS Wins First-Round in Spam Case - A judge Tuesday denied Harris Interactive's request for a temporary restraining order that would have forced anti-spam organization Mail Abuse Prevention System to remove the online researcher from its "Realtime Blackhole List." [InternetNews]

Mastering EJB - Second Edition

MaxFusion - ColdFusion Geeks - A Geek-Driven ColdFusion Resource Site based in the UK. Resources include Custom Tags

Media3 Loses Bid for Injunction Against RBL Listing - MAPS will continue to list IP addresses held by Media3 Technologies in MAPS' Realtime Blackhole List (RBL). The Federal District Court in Boston turned down Media3's request. [MAPS Press Release]

Mega-ISPs And Spam Support - Discussion about pink contracts. [Slashdot]

Mercury News: E-mail Users Plagued by a Rising Tide of Junk as Senders Grow Bolder - Susan Guberman-Garcia dreads retrieving her e-mail. Every day

Mercury News: Good laws would limit junk - Spam

Mercury News: The ethics of spam: `There's lots of money in it' - A profilic spammer tells why he does it.

Mercury News: Weak anti-spam laws make fighting back hard - Everyone says they're getting more spam. But weak anti-spam laws and determined e-mailers make it hard to fight back on legal grounds.

Microsoft to rewrite marketing labeled as spam - Microsoft today said it plans to revise a notification message accompanying a test version of its new MSN Explorer software

Mission Critical powers Linux Clusters - Mission Critical Linux launches server-clustering software for enterprise environments.

More accountability for spammers? - New e-mail marketing standards promise to balance privacy and personalization. Can the industry police itself? Will it? [ZDNet]

More Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) - Covers servlets 2.3

Mozilla Foundation Announcement - Press release covering the launch of the Mozilla Foundation

MozillaNews - News site dedicated to presenting accurate information

MSDN: The XML Files: Understanding XML Namespaces - Online article that reviews XML namespaces and sorts out the confusion. By Aaron Skonnard.

MSN blacklisted for harbouring spammers - Microsoft's vastly interconnected ISP and portal

MSN Criticized For Open Spam Relays - Responding to complaints that the Microsoft Network is allowing spammers to relay junk e-mail through MSN servers

MSN opts for Brightmail anti-spam defence - MSN has signed up with Brightmail to stop its email users getting spammed. The ISP will offer its five million email users in the US the option of Brightmail's Anti-Spam Solution. [The Register]

MSN turns users into spammers - A change of address notification for new users generates MSN Explorer endorsements to colleagues and friends. Make that former friends. [ZDNet]

MSNBC: Has the spam dam really burst? - Spam

MSNBC: In the trenches of the 'spam wars' - For those serving on the front lines of the bruising battle over junk e-mail spam is also is the root of the hardball legal tactics

MSNBC: Spam crackdown urged - Three consumer groups petitioned the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday to enact tougher rules regarding the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail

MSNBC: World's Top 10 Spammers - A list of names of and bios of the top ten spammers as of summer 2003.

MSNBC: Yahoo! sneaks in yet more spam - When Yahoo's instituted a privacy policy change this week

MSWin Programming Strategies - Overview of strategies for Visual Basic and Visual Basic/COM. Published in ACM Crossroads Magazine.

Murach's Beginning Java 2 - Includes sample chapters and book summary for Andrea Steelman title.

Murach's Beginning Java 2 - JDK 5

Murach's Visual Basic 6 - This book specific site offers a review of the first chapter and contains downloadable source code for all of the applications used in the book.

NBCi Press Releases - Press Releases for the search engine formerly known as Snap.

NET Visibility Search Engine News - Presents news articles concerning the search engine industry and tips for better web positioning and ranking.

Netcom Escapes Anti-Spam Blackhole - Until last week

Network World: REBOL with a context - Gearhead review.

New Architect: A Tidal Wave Of Spam - Editorial. One man decides to give up on spam filtering.

New Architect: Yet Another Programming Language? - by Kurt Cagle

New Architect:: Blind Vigilantes - Blackhole lists offer dark prospects.

New Battle Strategies Heat Up War On Spam - Some say the only way to stop the spread of e-mail Spam is to charge e-mail users a fee -- but the strategy has failed to stem the tide of regular junk mail. [NewsFactor]

New Data Transfer Capabilities - By John Zukowski. New capabilities now available is improved data transfer support within and between applications. Data transfer includes two tasks: cut

New MSN feature encourages spamming friends - The latest test version of Microsoft's MSN Explorer is setting off sparks over a feature that converts MSN email accounts to Hotmail

New real-time collaborative solution is Mac compatible - Article by Dennis Sellers in MacCentral.

New Zealand News -Cheesemaker finds Linux hard to beat - After finding Microsoft couldn't grow with the company

News Site - A utility for news sites. News-site.cgi is a CGI executable script which converts new mail in a POP e-mail account into news articles.

News: Japan mulls Windows replacement - Microsofts bugs push Japan to look at Open Source.

News: Spammers Hijack ISPs To Send Bogus Campaign Ads - ClickAction Inc. is working with the FBI and several ISPs to find the source of a series of 'spam' attacks that sent bogus political campaign e-mail messages via hijacked third party servers. [Computer User]

Newsbyte: Peacefire.org Wins Spam Suits - Bennett Haselton

Newsbytes: Anti-Spam Advocate Wins Big In Small-Claims Court - A small-claims court in Washington state has ordered three direct marketers to pay $1

Newsbytes: AOL Says Spam Case Victory Sets 'Landmark' Precedent - Officials at America Online believe the Internet giant's legal victory over a large "spam" distributor lays the groundwork for other Internet providers to more effectively combat unsolicited e-mail on their own networks

Newsbytes: California Law Firm Tests State Spam Law Limits - California's largest law firm is suing e-mail marketer Etracks.com in a case experts say could test the limits of the state's laws designed to curb junk e-mail.

Newsbytes: Chain-Letter Busts Kick Off FTC Crackdown On Spam - The Federal Trade Commission today launched an unprecedented crackdown against deceptive junk e-mail - or "spam.? The nascent campaign seeks to marry individual enforcement actions against spammers with a consumer outreach and education program invol

Newsbytes: DMA To Adopt New Rules On 'Spam - The Direct Marketing Association next week is expected to announce sweeping changes to its policy on unsolicited bulk e-mail ? or "spam

Newsbytes: E-Mail Marketing Will Fade Away Without Consent - Report - E-mail marketing - usually thought of as unwanted or spam messages crammed into e-mailboxes - must evolve if it is to continue in the years ahead

Newsbytes: EC Lightens Spam Ban - European Internet marketing companies and e-tailers will be breathing a sigh of relief this morning

Newsbytes: U.S. Supreme Court Won't Strike Down Washington Spam Law - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal challenging Washington state's law against unsolicited commercial e-mail

Newsfactor: Fighting Spam: Legislation Won't Work - Passing anti-spam legislation

Newsfactor: How To Shut Down Spam - Don't ever click on a remove link to remove your e-mail address from a list.

Newsfactor: Malware and Spam in the New Year - Against both spam and viruses

NewsFactor: Spam Versus Technology: The Battle Rages On - One difficulty in stopping spammers is that some of their ploys work. If no one believed the story of the deposed

Newsfactor: The Unstoppable Flood of Spam - After remaining neutral for some time

NewsForge: Enterprise customers now ask for Linux by name - Pitching Linux isn't a tough sell for these companies.

NewsForge: Improving the Linux vs. Microsoft debate - Total cost of ownership improves the quality of the operating systems debate.

NewsForge: Largo loves Linux more than ever - One year later with the Linux adoption city in Florida

NewsForge: Linux comes through for New York company after 9/11 - The biggest ISO 9001 certified configuration and customization facility in New York City

NewsForge: Linux.com matches Microsoft software donation offers! - Get Linux free while supplies last. Hurry this offer only good as long as the internet lasts.

Newsforge: Wal-Mart shipping PCs with Lindows preinstalled - When the hardware costs less than the Windows licence

NewsNow - A 24-hour Java-specific newsfeed aggregating breaking news headlines from more than 20 of the Web's most prestigious web sites. Sources include CNET

NewsNow - 24-hour newsfeed aggregating breaking Linux and Open Source headlines from more than 20 of the Web's most prestigious web sites. Sources: CNET

NewsNow NewsLink - Dynamically updated page of links to articles relevant to XML from leading news sources. The site states that the page is updated every five minutes.

Northern Light in the News - Provides links to current news articles.

NPR - All Things Considered - Spam - A radio segment on "spam" with Jason Catlett

NPR : The Search Engine Wars - In a five-part series

NPR Science Friday : The ABCs of Linux - A discussion of the basics of Linux. Guests: Bill McCarty

O'Reilly Java Center - Online ordering of O'Reilly Java books and general Java news.

O'Reilly Oracle Center - O'Reilly resource center for Oracle.

Objective Viewpoint - Regular column in ACM Crossroads magazine

Objective Viewpoint: Java I/O and Compression - The basics of input and output (I/O) in the Java Environment

Objective Viewpoint: Make Your GUI Swing - Using the swing library to improve interfaces in java - ACM Crossroads 6-4

Objects and Java - A next book project of Bill Venners.

Official Press Releases Page - List of press releases relevant to Curl Corporation and the Curl Content Language.

Official: Spam costs E10 billion - Spam costs Net users a whopping E10 billion ($9.33 billion) a year

OK - David C. Hay's discusses HTML and its counterpart

On the beat with the Internet spam cops - [CNN]

Online Help-Desk - Information related to: Linux

Online Marketers Propose Spam Controls - In a bid to ward off U.S. government regulation

Online petition against Spam - Online petition by EU web users against spam. Site is German but text is English.

Open Source alive and well at Navy office - Data collection survey ships run Linux

Open source wins Java rights - By James Middleton. The open source community won the rights to free implementation of the Java platform last week

Open Source's First Six Months - Eric Raymond talks about the 6 months after Netscape announced its commitment to open source.

Open Telecom Platform - Article by Seved Torstendahl in Ericsson Review. (PDF file)

Oracle Magazine - On-line version of Oracle Magazine.

OraPub - A collection of papers in Adobe Acrobat format on administration issues.

OrbitStar-Linux - Comparative reviews of Linux distributions and links to news.

ORBS antispam site shut down - The war on unsolicited email suffered a setback this week as a spam-blocking site was bounced off the Web. [News.com]

OS News - News of many OSs

OS/2 e-Zine - Monthly magazine with reviews

OutlookPower Magazine - A weekly magazine dedicated to Outlook and Exchange users and administrators.

OVP: A Simple SMTP Framework for Java - "In this installation of Objective Viewpoint

Pandia Search World - News

Parallel and Multi-threaded Erlang Implementation - Pekka Hedqvist. UU/CSD. (pdf)

Parameterized Types for Java - Technical paper reviewing PolyJ

PASX Properties - Article by Andrew Newton. Have you ever used properties files

PC Quest Linux Resource Centre - Articles from LDAP to Tomcat customization

PCLinuxOnline - Linux news and information

Performance Measurements of Threads in Java and Processes in Erlang - A study on Erlang's vs. Java's concurrency systems. J Halén

Perspectives on Erlang and TINA - This paper assesses the viability of using Erlang to implement TINA blocks. Maurice Castro

Pike Manuals - Manuals for Pike built from the sources.

Plan95: A Distributed Planning System - Uppsala University technical report on a student project involving Erlang simulations.

Political Spamming - In a pioneering move that may herald the dawn of the cyber-campaign

Practical Guide to SGML and XML Filters - by Norman E. Smith. Divided into three sections: background material on writing SGML/HTML file filters

PREBOL - REBOL Language Preprocessor - This tool allows you to combine multiple source or data files into a single REBOL output file.

Privacy advocates say amended spam bill lacks teeth - When rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) introduced legislation in February to prevent or greatly reduce unsolicited commercial e-mail

Pro-spam Hacker Reported - A mysterious hacker has come to the defense of much-hated junk emailers

Probing the mind of an Ericsson engineer - Article on Joe Armstrong

Programmering med mindre kod - Article by Suzette Wagner in the Danish version of PC world.

Programming Spiders - Bots and Aggregators in Java

Prototype of a Soft Type System for Erlang - Anders Lindgren. UU/CSD. (ps.gz)

PSINet assailed as spam contract surfaces - Troubled Internet service provider PSINet acknowledged providing access to a sender of bulk unsolicited commercial email

PSINet cans spammer - Attempting to distance itself from a spam controversy

PSINet caught red-handed with spam contract - Stumbling ISP PSINet has owned up to a contract with a sender of bulk unsolicited commercial email - known to you and me as spam. It has long been a suspicion that some ISPs have had illicit contracts with spammers

Rapid move from idea to product - Article on developing Eddie

Readers bullish on security - Investing in Linux and security.

RealPix: The SMIL Graphics Format - Graphics format developed by Real Networks. It allows graphics to be streamed over web as part of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL).

Rebol - A Messaging Language - Message by Kieron Lawson from FoRK maillist.

Rebol and Xanadu - Could REBOL be the way to finally implement Xanadu?

REBOL Essentials - Creating lightweight cross-platform applications by Viktor Pavlu (PDF file)

REBOL for Dummies - Maintained by author Ralph Roberts.

REBOL Language Documentation - All the official documentation from REBOL Technologies.

REBOL Press - Official site for REBOL publications. Includes sample chapters for several of their books.

REBOL: The Official Guide - "REBOL reminds me of the little engine that could. It's ridiculously small

Recommended Java and Web-Programming Books - A large number of personal recommendations for the best Java and WWW programming books

Red Hat 8 or SuSE 8.1 for the desktop user? - Install

Rediff On The Net: Carl Sassenrath interview - Moderately long

Regular Expressions: Erlang Is Worth a Look - Article in Unix Review.

Report: E-Mail Marketing To Reach $7.3B by 2005 - Jupiter Communications released a report on Monday predicting that worldwide direct e-mail marketing will balloon from $164 million (US$) in 1999 to $7.3 billion in 2005. [E-Commerce Times]

Report: E-Mail Taking Hold as E-Commerce Tool - A survey released this week by Forrester Research

Rethinking Computer Science 101 (with Java) - Project at MIT on "innovations in introductory computer programming".

Reusable UI Components for HTML - Add a Swing-style architecture to your servlet-powered apps

Reward offered to find spammer - Wanted: One spammer. Reward offered. A San Diego software engineer who's had it with people using his domain name "live.net" to send out spam is offering a $100 reward to anyone who can deliver the offending parties--or at least their names-

Rich Clients - Slides of a talk about rich clients that presents Curl in a bigger context.

RMS: Roxen Module Source - The place to go when you need a Roxen module of any kind. Features discussion

Robot Modifications - Erlang running on a full-blown 386 motherboard controlling a robot was part of Andy Allen's Master's Thesis.

Safe Erlang - Gustaf NaeserUU/CSD. (ps.gz)

Salon.com Technology : Linux goes to the movies - Visual effects giants Dreamworks

San Francisco Chronicle: Court upholds anti-spam law / Unsolicited e-mail not protected - In a victory to thrill anyone annoyed by the "spam" that clogs e-mail accounts

San Francisco Chronicle: Spam going mobile - Fight is on to keep unwanted text ads off cell phones.

San Francisco Chronicle: Spam stampede clogs Internet - Amid all the unwanted e-mail pitches for Viagra

Scientific American: XML and the Second-Generation Web - Article for executives and those needing the big view.

SD Times: Curl adds muscle to the web - Article on the Curl technology.

SD Times: Curling Up With a Good Web - Article on the Curl technology.

SD Times: Curling Up With Web Applications - Article on the Curl technology.

se-secrets.com - Learn the secrets to achieving top rankings in search engines through a book and newsletter on optimization and promotion techniques.

Search Engine Blog Weekly Mailing List - Weekly mailing list for a search engine marketing news blog. The mailing provides a copy of the week's daily blog entries

Search Engine Guide - Daily search engine news

Search Engine Guide - Search engine news updated daily and three years of archived news.

Search Engine Optimization News - Round-up of search engine news from around the Web. Archive dating back to January 2001.

Search Engine Optimization News - Newsletter containing articles and commentary concerning industry news and optimization techniques.

Search Engine Optimization Strategies - Free weekly email newsletter offering search engine optimization tips

Search Engine Report - A free

Search Engine Watch - Frequently updated news and headlines.

Search Engine World Quarterly - Quartly newsletter on search engine optimization and promotion. Includes articles on the industry itself

Search Visibility Report - Provides extensive commentaries plus search engine marketing news

SearchDatabase.com - News

SearchDay - A free newsletter from Search Engine Watch featuring Web search news

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Deceptive chain e-mails targeted - FTC goes after spam purveyors who peddle dubious schemes.

seattlep-i.com: 'Spam' bill would require senders to include personal info - Unsolicited e-mail

seattlepi.com: Microsoft-backed bill would dilute spam law - The state Attorney General's Office has convinced lawmakers that a proposal being pushed by Microsoft Corp. would weaken Washington's landmark law against unwanted and misleading e-mail.

Secretaries use Linux - Story of Florida towns that uses open source to save taxpayers money

Secure Distributed Communication in SafeErlang - Bertil Karlsson. KTH (pdf)

Securing Java: Getting Down to Business with Mobile Code - The online version of the print book

SEO Journal News - Provides articles contributed by SEOs and webmasters

SEO Newsnet - Information resources for topics including website optimization

Settlement in first antispam law - Stan Smith of Salem

Settlement In First Antispam Law - A spammer settles out of court to avoid prosecution under state anti-spam laws. [CNET.com]

SF Gate: Spam attacks growing - According to the latest monthly data from Brightmail the rate of unique spam attacks measured by the company's network of decoy addresses has increased more than five-fold during the past year -- from less than a million in June 2001 to more than 4.8 mill

SF Gate: Spam indigestion worsens - So I get back after taking a week off and find my office e-mail basket spilling over with more than 700 messages. Several dozen were legitimate missives from readers and whatnot

SFGate.com: But we don't like spam - Junk e-mail detested - Nearly 9 out of 10 Americans who use e-mail at work support legislation that would require warning labels on sexually explicit or pornographic spam and establish criminal penalties for spam that contains misleading information about the identity of the se

SFGate: Bill seeks to stem spam - Could California lead the nation into a spam-free future? Or at least one where appreciably fewer unwanted pitches for porn

SGML and XML News - Short articles on new projects and current issues with relevant links to the originating sites. [Oasis]

She-geeks confess love for Linux - Sick of sexist attitudes

Slashdot - Linux and other technology news for nerds.

SlashDot - "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." News site dedicated to Linux

Slashdot: As the Spam Turns - The SBL has added Verio's corporate mail servers to its blocklist which protects nearly 100 million mailboxes

Slashdot: Australian Spammer Sues Back - We've all heard the one about the spammers begin sued. Now

Smallest AXE in the world - Powered By Erlang! Article in Contact.

Smashing the SSL Speed Trap - Article in Network Computing on Nortel's SSL accelerator. Lorie McVittie

smh.com.au: Sun goes down on man of words - Green describes these electronic messages as "a little ray of sunshine". It irritates him that some of the recipients can't see the light. They regard Green's sunshine as spam

Spam bombers - Tired of receiving dozens of get-rich-quick offers and promos for "bulk mailers" in your e-mail? Meet the software designers who have made it all possible. [Salon 21st]

Spam filters may feed Web marketing - Some popular free Web services are playing both sides of the fence when it comes to protecting consumers from pesky marketers

Spam Me - Editorial with tips to fight spam. [Washington Post]

Spam Report: U.S. Regulators Ignore Most Junk E-Mail - To date

Spam scam slams a chain of fools - Article about pyramid schemes. Includes contact information to find out more about fraud. [USA Today]

Spam Strikes Back - Do marketers have the right to flood the e-mail boxes of unsuspecting Internet users with unwanted e-mail

Spam Warfare - Blacklists

Spam Wars Escalate in Round Two - Attorney Pete Wellborn obtains Global Restraining Order against spammer Benchmark Print Supply

Spammer Gets Spammed - [Slashdot]

Spammer wrecks UUNet email service - UUNet customers have been left stranded without access to their email for the last 36 hours after the outfit took a "very big hit" from spammers earlier this week. [The Register]

Spammers jump gun on legislation - Spammers claim legitimacy with disclaimers that imply their mass emailings comply with the Consumer Antislamming Act. [CNET]

Spamming from the book is still junk - Describes "dictionary spamming" method by which spammers can guess email addresses of users on certain email providers. [USA Today]

SQL Compiler For the Mnesia DBMS - Ronny Andersson. CTH (pdf)

SSErl - Prototype of a Safer Erlang - article by Dr Lawrie Brown.

Structuring XML Documents - This book concentrates on the DTD as the center of XML. Not recommended for beginners. [Amazon.com]

Study finds filters catch only a fraction of spam - Spam filters used by some popular Internet email providers weed out only a fraction of the junk they're supposed to but almost never bounce legitimate messages

Sun opens Java to Open Source community - Future versions of Java for servers

Sun's Java Tutorial - On-line version of book from Addison-Wesley.

SuSE 7.3 - Which OS is better for "Harry Homeowner" to install and use?

Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days - Tutorial that breaks down the task of learning into 21 focused lessons with explanations of concepts

TechBookReport - Java - Independent book reviews of Java and Java-related titles. Also includes reviews of Java related software and utilities.

TechBooksForFree - Java - A collection of Java programming books available on the Web free of charge.

TechNews.com: AOL Joins Microsoft In a Reply to Spam - These arch rivals

TechWeb: IBM Eggheads: Web Trumps Windows - Web technologies

Tek-Tips: Microsoft: Exchange Forum - Exchange technical support forums and mutual help system for computer professionals. Selling and recruiting forbidden. By Tecumseh Group

TelecomWeb: Congress Approves National Anti-Spam Bill - Congress has given the final approval on the "Can-Spam" bill

Telepolis: European Parliament to come to crucial vote on spam - "Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights

Teoma Press Releases - Contains current and archived news items

Terra Lycos Press Releases - Press releases for search engines Lycos and HotBot.

Testing the Best of Linux - Compares several popular distibutions.

The Age: E-mail users want spam off the menu - Spam

The Age: Spam - The e-mail system is wilting under the attack of confidence tricksters and the mad inventors of viruses

The Age: Spam - If you already get too much junk e-mail

The Age: The dangers of spam SMS - You can get paid to receive ads on your mobile

The Age: The Plague - On Monday the battle raging in cyberspace between spammers and their nemesis

The Allaire Information Source. - CFVault.com features ColdFusion

The Awesome Power of Java Beans - By Lawrence H. Rodrigues (Manning). It provides details on both using and building Java beans. A wide-ranging selection of completed and tested beans is included. Written for programmers

The Basics - 5 biggest threats to your privacy online - Here's how to beat the hackers

The Best Desktop Operating Systems of 1996 - From Infoworld

The Bluffer's Guide to Java - Introduces Java terminology for the Web developer.

The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide - The Study Guide is organized according to the exam objectives defined by Sun. Every single objective is covered

The Curl Programming Environment - By Friedger Müffke in Dr. Dobb's Journal.

The Design Patterns Java Companion - Free online book by James W. Cooper. Also it can be download in PDF format. Examples.

The Detroit News: Spam king - W. Bloomfield man's deal with Internet service limits his reach

The Development of The Development of the HiPE System: Design and Experience ReportHiPE System: Design and Experience Report - Erik Johansson

The Erlang Language - Article in Byte Magazine

The Idaho Statesman: Crusaders are trying to stop the kudzu of e-mails from invading your inbox - Think of Kevin Wilson as the self-appointed trash cop of the Internet superhighway. In short

The Industry Standard: AOL says lawsuit closes a spammer's loophole - The settlement that America Online extracted from a pair of Florida men last week may have closed a loophole used by spammers to flood e-mail in-boxes with junk mail.

The Java Class Libraries: Volume 1 - Comprehensive API reference to java.io

The Java Class Libraries: Volume 2 - Comprehensive API reference to java.applet

The Java Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Java Developers - Book by Ian F. Darwin provides solutions to many problems that Java-developers need to solve regularily. The authors site provides errata

The Java Language: An Overview - Describes how Java is a simple

The Java Series - Published on Sun's behalf by Addison-Wesley Longman

The Java Virtual Machine Specification - Documentation for Java "bytecode" class file format.

The Linux Show - Hosted by the GeekCast Network

The Managed Resource Interface:Interfacing Erlang with Standardized Management Protocols - On interfacing Erlang with Remote Network management protocols such as SNMP and Corba. Francesco Cesarini

The Mercury News: Subscription e-mail intended to weed out spam - WebTV co-founder Phil Goldman today is launching a subscription e-mail service for consumers that's intended to weed out spam.

The Miami Herald: Spamming for a living - She moved her cursor to the "send" icon and clicked. "It's that simple

The OpenNet Project - Unix Portal (Linux - Unix resources in the Internet and software catalogs Documentation archive. Software reviews. Articles filtered from Usenet. Unix search engine.

The Penguin - The viability of Linux as a mainstream operating system

The People of TrustCommerce: Adam Wiggins - Open Source on the Business Desktop.

The pioneers of Open Source - Article in Contact on Eddie

The Promise of Publishing Systems - Today's sophisticated development tools should ease workloads for the coder and designer

The Register: Anti-spam filters kill legitimate emails - Heavy-handed anti-spam filtering can frequently lead to the loss of legitimate emails.

The Register: AOL wins $7m in porn spam case - AOL has won $7m in damages after it claimed its punters had been bombarded with porn spam.

The Register: Hotmail - Spam fighters have come up with an idea to frustrate the automatic creation of email accounts often used to send spam.

The Register: MS moves to head off Linux desktop 'threat' - Does Redmond fear Linux is ready for prime time?

The Register: ORBS' death - Alan Brown makes a short response to the news that ORBS is shutting down.

The Register: Where the heck is all this spam coming from? - The growth of the spam problem in 2002 has been exponential

The Sacramento Bee: 'Spam' scam crackdown - A chain-letter scheme is halted but few see a drop in the onslaught of electronic junk mail.

The software war goes nuclear - An article arguing which OS will win the coveted spot atop the network OS throne. Mentions how projects such as the K Desktop Environment will help make Unix

The VB Zone - Visual Basic resource for beginners and experts. Sample code

The Visual Basic Style Guide - book by Tim Patrick. (Amazon)

The war for your e-mail box - Do we need anti-spam laws? Some Net veterans think the unthinkable. [Salon 21st]

Thinking in Java - Tutorial for beginning programmers or those without much OO experience. Full text of book available on-line in PDF format.

Thoughts and Software - Now unmaintained list of ideas and simple tools from the early days.

Three ways to spamproof your in-box - PROBLEM: You're drowning in unsolicited e-mail messages. SOLUTION: Filter your incoming e-mail

To Protest Unwanted E-Mail - A consultant introduces a tool to let users complain about spam to authorities. [NYT]

Topix.net: Linux - News about linux

Towards a Deadlock Analysis for Erlang Programs - Richard Carlsson

Towards an Event Modeling Language - This paper represents a first step in designing a graphical modelling language for Erlang. Maurice Castro

Tracking Tux: Research Round-Up - Where Linux is

trimMail's Email Battles - Daily briefing on e-mail spam

Tux Reports: Where Penguins Fly - Focusing on GNU/Linux

U.S. Gains in War Against 'Spam' Fraud - In ongoing investigations

U.S. House Approves Anti-Spam Bill - The U.S. House of Representatives voted almost unanimously Tuesday that spam should be unlawful. [E-Commerce Times]

U.S. House Committee Mulls Spam Crackdown - The U.S. House of Representatives Commerce Committee convened yesterday to examine ways to crack down on mass junk mailers and prevent such so-called "spam" from thwarting efforts to build consumer confidence in electronic commerce. [E-Commerce

U.S. representatives mount attack on spam - A bill designed to give consumers and ISPs greater control over a flood of unwanted e-mail

UForms Unicode Report Software - Report writer for any ODBC compliant database.

Universal Teacher - Java - "Learn RMI by Example" and "Building Java Executables" eBooks.

University of Philippines President Boosts Linux - University president

Unwanted E-mail Fills Computers - Some users get `hit' thousands of times. [The Denver Business Journal]

Up to Speed With Swing: User Interfaces With Java Foundation Classes - By Steven Gutz (Manning).

USA Today: E-mail avalanche even buries CEOs Take some tips from harried chief executives who are drowning in it - In the three seconds it takes to read this sentence

USA Today: Idaho man takes junk e-mail senders to court - Kevin Wilson is on a mission to rid his e-mail of unwanted electronic advertisements.

USATODAY.com - Linux waddles from obscurity to the big time - From counterculture operating system to OS of the masses.

Using Java's Reflection API - by Amandeep Singh

Using PDF to distribute code - Joe Armstrong

Using the Java Document Generator - An introduction to a standard Java API document generator.

VB Books for Developing Accounting Software - Three titles which teach the reader on how to develop their own accounting / inventory softwares using VB and SQL server.

VBInfoZine - A free weekly newsletter providing information for Visual Basic and .NET developers. It is the result of the author's 12+ years of Windows development experience.

VBnet - VB Code

VBXML - XML Articles - A list of PowerPoint articles about XML

VBXML.com: xmlNews - Email newsletter that includes new articles on XML

Verio's Alleged Spam is Temporarily Canned - In a case where a U.S. District Court is upholding a registrar's right to protect people listed in its database

Veritas places big store in the Penguin - Vendor to port storage software to Linux OS.

Verizon digs out from spam blizzard - Major American ISP and Gargantuan telecomms generalist Verizon was deluged with so much spam last week that its servers were unable to function at times

Verizon Online Users' E-Mail Problems Persist - More than a week after its network buckled under a torrent of junk e-mail

Versatile Services for Mobile Devices; Software Mobility and Erlang - Investigation on how Erlang can be used in servers and mobile clients. Thesis by Peter Månsson

Viral marketing goes one step too far - Article about the "viral marketing" technique used by AllAdvantage.com. [InfoWorld]

VirtualSprockets : Statement on the Recent Bill Jones Campaign Spamming - A statement concerning one of their clients

Visual Basic Books - This site features and reviews Visual Basic Books for all levels of Visual Basic programmers. Now also provides free online VB courses.

Visual Basic Web Magazine - A large site containing hundreds of articles

Visual Studio Magazine - Provide hands-on

vnunet.com Greenpeace cans Windows - Environmentalists go open source.

vnunet.com: Major vendors tout United Linux - Attempting to create new standards

VoiceXML Review - Online e-zine for VoiceXML with features

W3C: XHTML 1.0 Press Release - The World Wide Web Consortium's official press release for XHTML 1.0.

Walking the Line Between E-Mail and Spam - Getting people to say yes to marketing e-mails

Washington Post: 'R??sum?? Spamming' Brings an Online Backlash - Already frustrated by unwanted sales pitches and suggestive come-ons

Washington Post: E-Mail Opens New Door For Familiar Scam Tactic - The get-rich-quick con

Washington Post: Making Spam Go Splat - Sick of Unsolicited E-Mail

Washington Post: Powered by . . . Spam? - How mass e-mail ads fueled a holiday gift craze.

Washington Post: Spam's Cost To Business Escalates - The flood of unsolicited messages sent over the Internet is growing so fast that spam may soon account for half of all U.S. e-mail traffic. 2003.03.13

washingtonpost.com: Data Attacks Strike Spam Fighters - Ron Guilmette tried to cleanse the Internet of spam. For his good deed

Web Page Development Heavyweight Rematch - A comparison of Allaire ColdFusion and Microsoft Active Server Pages. (Thomas Powell / Network World)

Web Server Java - Book excerpt on servlets and JSP from Ian Darwin's Java Cookbook.

WebReview: XHTML - Our Last - Article about the need for XHTML and the differences from HTML.

Weekly Status Update - Status updates and overview of what's happening at the whole Mozilla Foundation.

Weekly Step Forth - Weekly search engine news and information from StepForth Search Engine Placement.

What Is an Oracle Relational Database? - Describes a database

When a Language Becomes a Platform - Modest article describes REBOL/IOS

When candidates spam - A mass e-mailing by a New Jersey Republican stirs up an online hornet's nest. [Salon 21st]

When is email marketing spam? - Like it or not

When Mike started his career Bill Gates was 11 years old - Article on one of the inventors of Erlang

White Paper - A brief introduction to Erlang for programmers.

Why Microsoft is wary of open source - CNet discusses how Linux's popularity could hinder the software giant in its quest to gain control of a server market.

Wired News: Server-Side Scripting - Brother

Wired.com - Taking Curl for a Whirl

Wireless NewsFactor: Cell-Phone Spam Figures in Patent Request - 'The federal E911 regulations have precipitated a flurry of privacy issues

Wireless NewsFactor: Japanese Giant Mounts New Wireless Spam Offensive - DoCoMo said it has requested permission to block any e-mail sent to large numbers of invalid e-mail addresses.

Wireless NewsFactor: U.S. Legislation Targets Wireless Spam - Holt's wireless phone bill

With spam like this - Readers balk at vendors' e-mail. How NOT to promote your otherwise-respectable large PC company (InfoWorld)

WML or XML? - Which standard is better for developing for the wireless market?

Wordtracker report - Emails you top searched for words for a fee and some for free.

Working to Halt Online Abuse - A volunteer organization founded in 1997 to fight online harassment through education of the general public

Would you accept spam in exchange for lower Net costs? - Would you cheerfully open your e-mail in-box to all the spam you can stand in exchange for a cut-rate ISP account? [CNN]

WPP a platform for packet data nodes - Article in Contact on yet another Ericsson product developed in... Erlang!

X Internet: The E-wave - Carl is quoted in this article about the X Internet (1-Jan-2002).

Xgos Linux Accounting and Business Ethics - Linux news and opinion.

XHTML: HTML Merges With XML - Article from Dev.x WebBuilder

XML - A White paper by Jon Bosak of Sun Microsystems.

XML - What's in it for us - This irt.org article presents a brief overview of XML

XML and Java: The Perfect Pair - A close look at XML software

XML and the IT Architect - Introductory article in Sunworld

XML by Example - Online companion site for this book XML by Example

Xml by Example : Building E-Commerce Applications - the overview discusses what XML is and how it differs philosophically from HTML. Following this there is a demonstration of the language in action in an electronic-commerce environment

XML Complete - by Steven Holzner

XML Developer - Pinnecle's XML newsletter

XML For Dummies - A basic overview of XML

XML for Dummies Quick Reference - by Mariva Aviram. A lightweight companion to the heavier books. [Amazon.com]

XML in Action - Written by a Microsoft interactive content developer

XML Magazine - XML Magazine delivers practical information about the architecture and structure of XML

XML Query Languages: Experiences and Exemplars - This paper identifies features of an XML query language by examining four existing query languages: XML-QL

XML Sucks - Negative criticism of the technology and supporting resources.

XML Today - News and in depth articles on-line.

xml-book.com - Directory of XML books categorized by subject.

XML.com - XHTML: Three Namespaces or One? - Discussion into the three DTDs of XHTML.

XML.org: News - Receive the latest industry news on XML and related technologies either online or via subscription.

XML: Extensible Markup Language - by Elliotte Rusty Harold. with its specific focus on the needs of Web-page authors. The book briefly handles the technical details and programming aspects then concentrates on the pragmatic issues of producing efficient Web sites. [Amazon.com]

XML: The Future of the Web - Overview of XML

Xmlfirst - Recent headlines with links to the articles.

xmlhack - News site for XML developers

XMLTo Be - Using XML to generate VRML.

XSLT and XPath On The Edge - By Jeni Tennison. Owners of the book can download all-new content from the Web and access a searchable version of the book online. Sample chapter provided.

XSLT Programmer's Reference - Wrox publication written by Michael Kay for programmers who want to learn how to use the XSLT language to develop web applications. Online book discussion and sample chapter provided.

Yahoo Press Releases - Contains corporate press releases and partner releases organized by year.

Yahoo! News: Microsoft - Microsoft and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Thursday sued a group of e-mail marketers they said were responsible for sending billions of fraudulent spam messages.

Yahoo! News: Senate passes anti-spam bill - The "can spam" bill reflects a national push to eradicate annoying commercial junk e-mail. It takes aim at bulk e-mailers who mask their identities

Yahoo! News: House Passes Anti-Internet Spam Bill - The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Saturday for a bill to outlaw most Internet spam and create a "do not spam" registry for those who do not wish to receive unsolicited junk e-mail.

Yahoo! News: Spam E-Mail Plays on Men's Deepest Fear - For many American office workers

Yahoo! News: Spam-Busters Say They're Winning the War - They're the scourge of the electronic age -- the modern-day equivalent of the 19th century snake-oil salesmen hawking their miracle cures

Yahoo! News: Spammers Unleash E-Mail Worm to Disable Critics - Anti-spam organizations are the target of a new Internet worm outbreak that tries to knock them offline with a crippling data barrage

Yahoo! News: Spams Drives Wary Shoppers Away from Internet - The exponential growth of unsolicited junk e-mail -- spam -- is shaking consumer confidence in the Internet and may hamper growth of the e-economy

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ZD Net: FTC crashes international drivers' license spam scam - Several unscrupulous "spammers" have been shut down after bombarding Internet users with e-mail offers for allegedly bogus international drivers' licenses.

ZDNet News- Asian enterprises embracing Linux - Asian companies begin to adopt Linux strongly in the 4th quarter of 2001.

ZDNet News: Spam--it's worse than ever - Do you need a penis enlargement? How about a cool million bucks

ZDnet: Spam hits 36 percent of e-mail traffic - Corporate networks are becoming increasingly clogged by e-mail pitches for pornography

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