Techie Manager

Security expert and Nmap creator Fyodor has compiled a list of the top 100 security tools for 2006:
After the tremendously successful 2000 and 2003 security tools surveys, Insecure.Org is delighted to release this 2006 survey. I (Fyodor) asked users from the nmap-hackers mailing list to share their favorite tools, and 3,243 people responded. This allowed [...]

Ever since I first saw a demo of Sketchup, the world’s coolest 3D sketch program, I’ve been dying to have a copy. Yes, I could have downloaded a demo copy, but that’s no fun as it’s only valid for 8 hours.
Google had purchased the company a few months ago, and I had [...]

PalmOS is officially dead and replaced by Linux. From the press release:
bq.. ACCESS Co., Ltd., and its wholly owned subsidiary, PalmSource, Inc., today announced the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP), the latest evolution of Palm OS(R) for Linux. The ACCESS Linux Platform is designed to be an integrated, open and flexible Linux-based platform tailored for [...]

Stroll down memory lane to 1995 when $2900 got you a 2.9 GIG Seagate or better yet, to 1980 when $4000 got you an 18MB North Star…
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Engadget’s tribute to iPods past.

A new tech term has started popping up in all of the standard industry rags - SOA, or _Service-Oriented Architecture_. The problem is that for some reason the rag writers never seem to want to define what SOA means (I hate when they do that). I finally find a good intro article on [...]

Excellent article by John Hiler on how Google is pioneering the Death of Folders.
bq.. Hierarchical Folders have helped us manage information for decades. They’ve proven themselves as some of the most flexible tools ever created: organizing wildly different industries, from Web Directories, to Email and Desktop File Systems.
But Folders rarely solve the core problem [...]

DVD43Free - ” DVD43 removes most types of copy protection found on found on movie DVDs. DVD43 only works on Win2K and WinXP.”
DVD Shrink - “DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a [...]

Interesting article in which Mike Davidson describes how to snatch up a domain name that has expired.

Via Slashdot:
bq.. Richard Grimes of Dr. Dobbs Journal wrote an article entitled Mr. Grimes’ Farewell, in which he discusses what he feels are inherent flaws in .NET, and how he is abandoning his .NET column. Grimes argues that .NET is merely thin wrappers to Win32 calls (Avalon uses message functions that date back to 16-bit [...]