 Chris Goh's "On the Net"
Hotnews
The 'Code Red' worm has been around for a while, but it hasn't been taken seriously by the web community. It's not an E-mail virus – it preys on website and programming flaws (which can be fixed) in the Microsoft web server, IIS (Internet Information Server). The FBI, Government and Microsoft have united in asking the community to beware of the worm, which is stoppable if you take the right precautions. Code Red only attacks servers with English as the server language and changes the default website to say you have been hacked by the Chinese.
SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) has concentrated on finding ET by listening to the microwave and radio signals that hit the earth. Now, a new listening telescope, called Allen, will look to see if aliens are bouncing lasers off us.
Hotsites
Tony David Cray, the developer of the Sydney Opera House virtual tour, gave me the following URLs if you're interested in any further broadband investigation.
www.broadband.org.au/
This is quite a topical discussion group dedicated in finding out what is really happening behind your broadband connection. It provides interesting reading for those wanting to know why things are the way they are.
http://whirlpool.net.au/
Whirlpool is also a discussion forum, but concentrates more on the outages that occur with broadband carriers. Like broadband.org.au it has discussion threads along similar themes.
www.itnews.com.au/story.cfm?ID=7357
This article highlights the bigger issues for Telstra and its Next Generation telephone projects, which have been stalled since the whole ADSL fiasco.
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