Q&A
File smiles.
Matthew Huff

How Far Out-Sourced?
Ralph Barker

The use of the Web browser as a universal interface is gaining in popularity, particularly as a front-end to legacy applications that are hosted on large systems in the data center.

Rambling And Scrolling
Stan Kelly-Bootle

Every little once in a while one or more of my three original Muses stops making house calls. On a bad day I can spend hours debating whether the phrase "one or more of" requires a singular or plural verb form.

Internet Black Holes
William LeFebvre

When the founding fathers of the Internet created a mechanism for the exchange of electronic mail, little did they realize that they were inventing a new marketing channel. Network old-timers like myself have always felt it is rude and inappropriate to send unsolicited and unwanted electronic mail to someone.

High-Definition X Color
Eric Foster-Johnson

When the X Window system became popular, particularly on UNIX workstations, you were lucky if you had a display that supported 256 colors. At the time, most X programmers used the simplest color functions because most workstations didn't provide more than the simplest color displays.

Be Bop
Tom Yager

I've been covering the OS beat for about 15 years now, and in that time, I can recall seeing only three or four genuine innovations. It's been a while since something really spun my socks.

Java Grows on (Inheritance) Trees
David Detlefs

Most textbooks on object-oriented programming tout the wonders of class hierarchies-collections of classes related by subtyping. Read enough and you may wonder how anything ever got done without them.

IBM's RS/6000 HA-H70 Cluster Server
Review by Ralph Barker
 
You may not want to wear it on your wrist, but this 850-pound cluster keeps on ticking.

Red Hat Linux 6.0
Review by Emmett Dulaney  

New features add business appeal, but enough for corporate clients?

Accrue Insight 3.0
Review by Ben Thompson  

Accrue Insight 3.0 provides flexibility in measuring Web site traffic and analyzing visit patterns.