Sites Worth Seeing…

1. Webby Awards winners for 2003…To see all the Webby nominees and winners for the top websites of 2003, go to: http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/nominees.html
   
   
2. National Do Not Call Registry… Call 1-888-382-12222 or register online to block telemarketers from calling or emailing you. (You might also want to check out Oregon's do-not-call list plan at https://www.ornocall.com/ ).
   http://donotcall.gov/
   
   
3. "Certificate Management and Installation with OpenSSL"… Guidelines for advanced applications of OpenSSL. Extensive, detailed coverage of how to work with a variety of certificates, including those for mobile devices, as well as configuring pine and mutt to use TLS/SSL:
   http://tirian.magd.ox.ac.uk/~nick/openssl-certs/
   
   
4. "From PlayStation to Supercomputer for $50,000"… New York Times article (John Markoff, May 26) on the astounding computing power of some video-game consoles, as demonstrated by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Ilinois at Urbana. Using "an army" of Sony PlayStation 2s, university researchers assembled a supercomputer capable of an estimated half-trillion operations a second.
   http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/26/technology/26XSUPE.html?th
   
   
5. "Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity Attacks"… Paper by Rice University's Scott A. Crosby and Dan S. Wallach demonstrating how a new class of low-bandwidth denial of service attacks can exploit common algorithmic deficiencies in many data structures.
   http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/hash/CrosbyWallach_UsenixSec2003/
   
   
6. UO VPN Software for OS X… The UO has VPN service available for off-campus broadband users that encrypts traffic from your system to campus. VPN service also assigns you a UO IP address, which means you will be able to access a number of resources restricted to UO users only. To get set up to use the VPN service with OS X, see the VPN link in the Mac OS X "Off Campus" section at http://micro.uoregon.edu/getconnected/index.html
   
   
7. NSF Strategic Plan Available Online… If you're planning to seek National Science Foundation support for your research, you may want to see NSF's current strategic vision, goals, priorities, and procedures at http://www.nsf.gov/od/stratplan_03-08/draft-stratplan.htm