All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by Juniper Networks Never close your office Your network never stops, why should your business? Extranet portals deliver anytime, anywhere access to clients and partners. View this Webcast and learn how they deliver a competitive advantage and hear a real-world case study from a healthcare IT CEO on how they work in the real world. Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 07/03/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: Of mice and madness Welcome to the new, improved online Gearhead! We’ve got lots more room so stretch out, relax and feel the joy that is Gearhead . . . ahhhh. To read this week's Gearhead, click here. Manage Insider Security Threats Experts say 75% of security threats come from inside your organization. Watch the latest Network World Editorial Perspectives Webcast today, "Security From the Inside," and learn which technologies and processes best protect your intellectual property and assets inside the perimeter. Click Here to View Backspin: 1984 plus 23 equals CACP Orwell’s novel 1984 has a number of major themes. There is the continuous “war,” which is used to justify the actions and policies of the government. There is doublethink and newspeak; the former the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in mind simultaneously and believe both to be true while the latter is the linguistic representation of the doublethink. And there is the pervasive, highly structured repression of the populace. To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days Micro$oft Fixes Intel... ? Micro$oft has released a "microcode patch" for Intel processors running XP/2003/Vista. Huh? If there is a defect in the microcode, how is it that Micro$oft can patch it, and why would it effect only some versions of Windows? On which Intel processors? The patch details aren't very helpful ... Report from the front lines Oh, grr. Yes, I said I wouldn't write about that thing that's happening today (you know what I'm talking about). But somebody I've actually met is is in one of those lines for that thing and she's posting regular updates from her position in the Cambrideside Galleria in Cambridge, Mass. ... Time Sink #22: A Five Second Chipmunk Movie Watch now. Pew Report on Cyberbullying and Online Teens The Pew Internet & American Life Project: has just released a new short report that looks at "online harassment and cyberbullying among online teens ages 12-17." Saving Internet Radio If you tried to tune into your favorite Internet radio station yesterday you would have heard nothing -- yesterday was a "Day of Silence" to raise awareness of the attempt to get the Copyright Royalty Board to rescind their insane new royalty scheme for Internetcasting. jQuery: Greatest thing since sliced bread? Or toast, at any rate. Next week, we'll be making some changes to the way our article-comment system works. As a reader, we hope you'll find they make articles and discussions on them easier to use. As site administrators, we're going to enjoy better database performance since, unlike our current system, the simple act of calling up a Network World article will no longer automatically invoke a call to our Community (i.e., Drupal) database.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. The $2.3M home lab of Quadruple CCIE 2. Top 25 'iPhonies' 3. Harry Potter worm says he is dead 4. Withdrawn Black Hat paper hints at security flaws 5. iPhone buzz reaches to Microsoft's back yard 6. Lawyers show how to avoid hiring an American 7. 3Com to spin out TippingPoint 8. IPv6 D-Day is coming up fast 9. Gartner to IT: Avoid Apple's iPhone 10. Hackers target C-level execs and their families MOST E-MAILED STORY: How MySpace is hurting your network

Contact the author: Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and now blogger: Check out Gibbsblog. Gibbs not only pens (well, keyboards) this newsletter he also writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We’ll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go here. Archives of the Network World Web Applications newsletter can be found here. This newsletter is sponsored by Juniper Networks Never close your office Your network never stops, why should your business? Extranet portals deliver anytime, anywhere access to clients and partners. View this Webcast and learn how they deliver a competitive advantage and hear a real-world case study from a healthcare IT CEO on how they work in the real world. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007