Network Computing Report #378
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Monday, November 22, 2004

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In This Issue:
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1) For Geeks on the Go
   - Feature: Geeks Illustrated
   - Feature: Gratifying Gadgets
   - Feature: For Geeks on the Go
   - Our Favorite Geek Wish List Entries
   - Geek-O-Meter Test
2) Reviews and How-Tos
   - Sneak Preview: SurfControl's RiskFilter
   - Sneak Preview: Buffalo Technology's LinkStation Network Storage
      Center
   - Quick Review: Mozilla Firefox 1.0: Ready for Prime Time
3) Reader Reverb
   - CEO Minute: Pervasive Software
   - TechQuiz: Network-based Intrusion Prevention
   - Top 11: Swami Says
   - Last Mile: Vroomba Roomba!
   - 2005 Editors' Choice Awards: Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise
4) The Daily Blog
   - From Mergers and Acquisition to Convergence
   - Buzz About Beehive
5) Your Monday IT Briefing
   - Firefox 1.0: The New Web Champ?
   - IT's Security Paradox
   - Next-Gen Nets Need Next-Gen Security
   - Personal IMing at Work? I'm Shocked!
   - Rivals Symbol, Cisco Liven Up Wireless Networking Offerings
   - R U Compliant?
   - What's Next for Compliance?
6) Opinion
   - BuzzCut: Tiny Storage Could Mean Big Security Headaches
   - BuzzCut: OS Endeavor Lets PCs Emulate Mac, Linux
   - BuzzCut: Phoenix Short Circuits the PC Start-Up Process
   - Industry Insights: Developing of the Geek Personality
   - Letters: Insecure Wireless
7) Coming Events
   - Security NeoCast
   - InformationWeek TechWebCast: Storage Consolidation for the
      Distributed Enterprise
8) CMP MarketPlace

Look for the next Network Computing Report newsletter on Monday,
November 29, 2004!


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1) For Geeks on the Go
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a) Feature: Geeks Illustrated
By Michael J. DeMaria
With the holidays hurtling toward us, we tested a slew of high-tech
gadgets that exude geek appeal even as they promise enterprise
functionality.
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b) Feature: Gratifying Gadgets
By Lori MacVittie, Don MacVittie, Sean Doherty, Ron Anderson and
Bradley F. Shimmin
Ultrahigh-resolution monitors, super-small cameras and slick storage
devices. See how these products rate for both coolness and value.
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c) Feature: For Geeks on the Go
By Bradley F. Shimmin, Christopher T. Beers, Frank Robinson, Nick 
Jordan
and Michael J. DeMaria
Mobility rules! From a GPS that includes directory assistance and 
Yellow
Pages to a multifunction media player, you won't want to leave home
without these goodies.
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d) Our Favorite Geek Wish List Entries
Thanks to everyone who sent in their holiday wish list this year. Find
out what gizmos your compatriots are wishing for this holiday season.
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Plus, we invited you to share your favorite horror stories of providing
tech support to family and friends. Here are your fellow networking
comrades' humorous tales of woe.
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e) Geek-O-Meter Test
Do you perpetuate your friends PC woes by being too helpful? Take our
special quiz, Cosmo style, on whether or not you're addicted to helping
your friends and family with computer problems.
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2) Reviews and How-Tos
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a) Sneak Preview: SurfControl's RiskFilter
By Sean Doherty
Keep malicious e-mail out of your system with this effective, albeit
costly antispam device.
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b) Sneak Preview: Buffalo Technology's LinkStation Network Storage
Center
By Don MacVittie
This affordable and easy-to-configure file and print server offers
compact, centralized storage.
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c) Quick Review: Mozilla Firefox 1.0: Ready for Prime Time
Despite some lingering platform compatibility issues, Mozilla's first
official 1.0 release of Firefox is ready for action on the front lines
of any IT shop.
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3) Reader Reverb
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a) CEO Minute: Pervasive Software
Listen in as Brad Shimmin sits down with David Sikora, president and 
CEO
of Pervasive Software, to discuss his personal experience with
outsourcing, types of IT jobs we'll see that are a direct outcome of
overseas outsourcing as well as methods for avoiding the potential
management inefficiencies and poor software quality.
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b) TechQuiz: Network-based Intrusion Prevention
Take our latest quiz to see if your knowledge of today's intrusion
prevention policies is up-to-date. If you can outsmart our editors,
we'll throw your name into the hat for a free NWC collectible
pen/stylus.
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c) Top 11: Swami Says
This week, we're looking for the "Top 11 somewhat misguided IT
predictions for 2005." Make us laugh "right here, where it counts," and
we'll publish your entry in print and online. Here are a couple of 
ideas
from uour fellow readers to get you going.
*Due to the expected virus/Trojan increase, the new recommended desktop
is the Commodore 64  (Commodore 128 reserved for management use only).
--John Patrick
*The benefits of CPU hyperthreading and IP KVM products will reduce the
1-to-1 user to PC ratio to a vaslty more cost effective 10-to-1. 
--Lance
Dodd
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d) Last Mile: Vroomba Roomba!
By Bradley F. Shimmin and Tim Wilson
In this edition: the Top 11 ways a Roomba robotic vacuum could improve
your IT department, old computers and iPod to the stars!
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e) 2005 Editors' Choice Awards: Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise
Each January, Intelligent Enterprise presents the Editor's Choice of 
the
top IT solution providers who are leading their customers to the
promised land of improved enterprise decision-making, optimized 
business
performance and met strategic objectives. These rankings are broken 
down
into "The Dozen," (the top 12 companies overall) and the 48 additional
"Companies to Watch" across four critical solution categories. Now's
your chance to tell us which companies stood out in 2004 and why you
think they deserve recognition. Make a nomination and then look for our
January issue to see how your choice stacked up against the competition
in 2004.
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4) The Daily Blog
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a) From Mergers and Acquisition to Convergence
Less than a month ago, Actional and Westbridge Technologies merged into
a single entity doing business as Actional. Less than six months ago,
Digital Evolution acquired Flamenco Networks. Yesterday, the converging
technologies of Web Services management and security showed itself with
the announcement of Actional's SOA Command and Control Platform and
Digital Evolution's XML VPN.
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b) Buzz About Beehive
In May, BEA donated its application framework to the Apache Software
Foundation where it became known as Beehive. Yesterday, BEA announced
milestone 1 release of Beehive as well as additional platform support.
Beehive now runs on JOnAS and Apache Geronimo in addition to Apache
Tomcat.
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Read more entries from The Daily Blog.
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5) Your Monday IT Briefing
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Here are some of the must-read news stories we're following this week.

a) Firefox 1.0: The New Web Champ?
Scot Finnie gives a feature-by-feature rundown on why Mozilla's new
Firefox Web browser can make believers even out of loyal Internet
Explorer proponents.
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b) IT's Security Paradox
Attacks are on the rise, but so is confidence among security
professionals. What's the deal?
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c) Next-Gen Nets Need Next-Gen Security
Hot new networking technologies like VoIP, WLANs and Voice over WLAN 
are
just as vulnerable as older network technologies. What are networking
vendors doing to secure them?
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Networking
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d) Personal IMing at Work? I'm Shocked!
Is IM abused in the workplace? Sure. But most workers don't need
punishment, they need support. The solution to IM isn't to take it 
away,
it's to make it work to the benefit of both the companies and the 
users.
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e) Rivals Symbol, Cisco Liven Up Wireless Networking Offerings
While the two vendors are firing up similar products, the price tags 
are
quite far apart.
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f) R U Compliant?
Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance is nothing if not a real-time challenge.
Creating a good information flow among potentially hundreds of
stakeholders requires a new influx of technology, including solutions
based on instant messaging.
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g) What's Next for Compliance?
Churchill said success is not dependent on knowing what to do but on
what to do next. Four recent developments point to new directions to
consider for records retention efforts.
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You can find links to these and other breaking news stories organized 
by
technology via our handy NetNews Service.
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6) Opinion
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a) BuzzCut: Tiny Storage Could Mean Big Security Headaches
By Jonathan Feldman
New, tiny USB flash memory devices could pave the way for employees to
bring in--or run off with--one Gig of data.
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b) BuzzCut: OS Endeavor Lets PCs Emulate Mac, Linux
By Michael J. DeMaria
PearPC technology lets PCs and Linux machines emulate multiple 
operating
systems, eliminating the need for separate hardware. But is it always a
good solution?
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c) BuzzCut: Phoenix Short Circuits the PC Start-Up Process
By Bradley F. Shimmin
The BIOS manufacturer looks to externalize Microsoft Outlook data 
during
startup with instant-on technology, signaling an end to teleconference
embarrassment and productivity pitfalls for business travelers.
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d) Industry Insights: Developing of the Geek Personality
By Mike Lee
The Supergeego, the Geek's moral compass, is behind the Geek's desire 
to
be a productive employee.
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e) Letters: Insecure Wireless
By NWC Readers
Sean Van Handel laments, "Making a wireless network impervious to
intruders isn't as easy as plugging in an 802.1x authentication server
and adopting new encryption measures."
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a) Security NeoCast
Thursday, December 2, 2004
12:00pm EST
What will you do when the next security incident crashes through your
door? The never-ending onslaught of worms, HR disasters and denial of
service attacks makes the idea of being proactive laughable, most days.
So the question is: How do you prepare for the storm when you're 
already
in one? Incident response is more than a policy or a plan; it is a
complete mindset. Join us for our next NeoCast as we discuss the art of
incident response and our observations from the field.
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b) InformationWeek TechWebCast: Storage Consolidation for the
Distributed Enterprise
December 8, 2004
11:00 AM Pacific Time
This TechWebCast will introduce the wide area file services (WAFS)
technology that is solving the problem of distributed storage
consolidation by enabling remote office access to storage over the WAN
with the speed and reliability of a local-area connection.
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