Sites Worth Seeing

1. CALCONNECT.ORG, the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium...This informative site is devoted to developing interoperable standards for enterprise calendaring. Current participants include major U.S. universities (among them Stanford, MIT, Wisconsin, and UC Berkeley) and software vendors Oracle, Novell, the Mozilla Foundation, and others. http://www.calconnect.org/

2. "Via Africa: Creating local and regional IXPs to save money and bandwidth"... Using the successful deployment of a regional Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Africa as an example, this document discusses the benefits of creating national and regional IXPs and explains how to create one. It was prepared for the 2004 Global Symposium for Regulators at the request of the International Development Research Centre (http://network.idrc.ca/en/ev-1-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html) and the International Telecommunication Union, and contains references to the work of the UO-based Network Startup Resource Center (http://nsrc.org/).

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/treg/publications/AfricaIXPRep.pdf

3. Dual core processor information...AnandTech's source for hardware analysis and news includes a discussion of dual core performance fixes.
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=1707814&frmKeyword=&STARTPAGE=2&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear

For a general overview of dual core CPUs, see http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=261

4. Enigmail: Thunderbird PGP Option for PC and Mac ...You may want to try Enigmail, an open-source Mozilla email client that offers encryption and authentication features. For details, see http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

5. What's the Current State of Computer Network Security?...The Computer Security Institute's annual report on information security, based on responses from 700 U.S. corporations, government agencies, financial and medical institutions, and universities. http://www.gocsi.com/press/20050714.jhtml

6. Ajax information... If you're looking for information on the Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) web application, here are some useful sites:

• "The Ten Best Ajax Links: Tutorials, Examples, and History"
  http://www.mygadgetbag.com/MGBResearch/MGBResearchArticles/tabid/261/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/445/The-Ten-Best-Ajax-Links-Tutorials-Examples-and-History.aspx
  
• Articles:

  "Ajax in Action": http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/23/1426249&tid=6
  "Ajax (programming)": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX
  "A Simpler Ajax Path": http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/58

7. Web developers' resource... If you design or maintain a website, you may want to join lists.evolt.org, a site that hosts several mailing lists for web developers. Share your expertise and find answers to your own web-related questions. http://lists.evolt.org/

8. "Sony's DRM Rootkit: The Real Story"... Bruce Schneier looks behind the headlines on the recent brouhaha over Sony's copy-protection scheme. http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0512.html#6