Sites Worth Seeing

1. Universities with laptop computer initiatives… To see a current list of all the universities in the U.S. that integrate laptops into their curricula, see
http://www.acck.edu/~arayb/NoteBookList.html

2. Ebola Monkey Man's irreverent war on spam… Cyber conversations designed to drive Nigerian 419 spam artists mad:
http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/

3. "Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server"… In May 2003, a serious flaw in hundreds of thousands of low-cost Netgear products targeted for residential use inadvertantly resulted in a denial-of-service attack on the University of Wisconsin's network. Complete details regarding the problem and its solution, including technical data, is available at
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp

4. Check your UO network quota online… UO faculty, staff, and students are allotted 50MB of disk space on one of the university's large timesharing computers. To see how much space you've used and how much remains, go to
http://password.uoregon.edu/quota/

5. Windows XP Pro tip… When logging into domains using Windows XP Pro, you may sometimes experience extremely long delays. You'll find tweaks and tips to fix this problem at
http://www.windowsxpatoz.com/cgi-bin/performance/index.cgi?answer=1036283899&id=1036282433

6. Supreme Court ruling on Internet filtering…

Text of the ruling:
http://supremecourtus.gov/opinions/02pdf/02-361.pdf

Washington Post article, "Supreme Court Upholds Internet Filters":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A22519-2003Jun23&notFound=true

Eugene Register Guard article, "Filtering out the filth: Eugene schools use traditional methods to block inappropriate material":
http://www.registerguard.com/news/20020127/1a.safesurfing.0127.html

7. "RIAA Ramps Up"… Washington Post article on the growing legal war against copyrighted music filesharing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30875-2003Jun25.html

8. "Patch and Pray"… An in-depth look at the efficacy of automatically applying security patches.
http://www.csoonline.com/read/080103/patch.html

9. A comprehensive discussion of network security strategies… Juniper Networks engineer Ross Callon and Cable & Wireless Chief Security Officer Bill Hancock explore the issues.
http://www.juniper.net/company/newsletter/feature_article_030801.html

10. "A Conversation with Jim Gray" (ACM Queue vol. 1, no. 4, June 2003) … Fascinating interview describing the ongoing utility of "sneaker net" and the role of high capacity disk drives in moving bulk scientific data. See
http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=43

11. Inexpensive pager service available for UO business use…Alphanumeric pagers for UO business use (including an unlimited number of calls per month) are available from Telecommunication Services for $4.95/month. See http://www.uoregon.edu/~telcom/pager.htm