• One comment said they had no idea coffee was a perk.  Well yes!  We had a choice here since there are not as many coffee drinkers, that one is a small 'club' of people that pay.  In return we get unlimited free soda and some juices plus free water dispenser.  Water you ask!  Well our building does not offer water service anywhere but near the central elevator core.  So that means coffee must be made and water added and the drinking water from the tap was awful.  So we opted for the big bottles.
• Pool and an indoor golfing range was another comment. that came in.  Indoor golf range?!?!?!  Now that is something unique and new to hear.  Of course if it is one little putting cup with electronic return that was not funny :-)

LogicLibrary Uncovers Security Gap in Trillian

The vulnerability originally appeared in Trillian 2.0. It was compounded because the same vulnerable code was included in several different components and locations. Although many instances of the bug were addressed in Trillian 3.0, at least two vulnerabilities persisted in the Yahoo IM component.

According to LogicLibrary, these exploitable unbounded buffer-iteration problems remain in the current product version, Trillian 3.1. There are at least two exploitable yahoo.dll buffer iteration bugs -- one is at 0x520296c6 and the other is at 0x5201a05f.

The 1GB storage upgrade represents an increase of more than four times from the 250 Megabytes (MB) of space that Yahoo! Mail users currently enjoy for free.

Yahoo! also offers consumers 20MB attachment limits, along with Spam Guard, AddressGuard and numerous additional features.

Q. What does an IBM Lotus Domino Utility Server license include?
A. Domino Utility Server includes the following capabilities, designed for collaborative applications where the number of users is high or difficult to track (for example, a Web application for customer self-service).

• Access to non-mail collaborative applications
• Use of individual mail files is not allowed.
• Client access licenses are not required for Web browser access to non-mail applications, even when user authentication is involved.
• Access from a Lotus Notes client is allowed, but the Notes software and client access license must be acquired separately.
• Domino partitioning (the capability to run more than one instance of Domino on the same machine using one copy of the Domino code)
• Domino clustering for failover and load balancing
• Limited use entitlement to WebSphere Application Server

• Workplace Collaboration Services is for the enterprise and is a much larger install and licensing cost. (I knew this one coming in but a small percentage of the attendees were not clear on what was what yet.)
• WSE is for smaller shops and includes a current 20 free licenses to install for Passport and Business Partners.  Additional licenses are sold in 20 user packs (they think) or per processor.  But WSE can only be a single machine.  A maximum of 2000 names users is also a limit
• It can install a local Cloudscape database for users or utilize a LDAP directory.  No schema changes were stated to be made to the LDAP sources
• The document management integration with Windows was cool but quite scarily looked like Domino Document Manager on the Win32 integration, but on steroids for the web side.
• The basic templates and built in features are cool for shops first deploying.  For advanced shops, looking into importing templates and portlets will be a market in itself around this product
• The java editors were very nice letting users without Microsoft Office actually edit and do some basic word processing functions.
• You could access with IE 5.5, IE 6 plus Mozilla 1.4 (1.3 could work but lacked some fucntionality) and recent Firefox 1.1 with success
• If you know Portal or Websphere Application Server you already have some basic skills

• When they talked about integrating your existing mail infrastructure, they kept saying Exchange at a rate of 3 to 1 over Domino.  I only started paying attention when they kept saying Exchange Portlets.  Unfortunately, most of the audience was Domino already.
• Chat and awareness worked well, but uses some bizarre ports, not Sametime ones.  Tunneling didn't seem to be an option which could be hard for remote workers at sites or customers.
• The final half of the show didn't work, as they did not test the load and change the IP addresses from where the were last.  They spent 20 minutes showing where to download it.  They did have some test machines locaded up front to play live on the other system that was running though

America Online spokesman Andrew Weinstein, however, maintained that AOL does not monitor, read or review any user-to-user communication through the AIM network, except in response to a valid legal process.

Weinstein told eWEEK.com the clause in question falls under the heading "Content You Post," meaning it only relates to content a user posts in a public area of the AIM service. "If a user posts content in a public area of the service, like a chat room, message board or other public forum, that information may be used by AOL for other purposes," he explained.

Microsoft is acquiring Groove Networks and the Groove team will join the Information Worker line of business under the leadership of Jeff Raikes.
·    Ray Ozzie, Groove Founder and creator of IBM Lotus Notes will take on the role of Chief Technical Officer, reporting to Bill Gates, where he will be working on a broad range of technologies and projects.
·    The acquisition is expected to be complete in the second quarter of 2005 subject to regulatory approval.
·    Groove will continue to operate from its Beverly, Mass., headquarters.
·    There will also be an accompanying press release issued shortly and can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/mar05/03-10GroovePR.asp

In the physical world, being labeled a journalist may confer little prestige and may even evoke some contempt. But being a journalist can also confer certain privileges, like the right to keep sources confidential. And for that reason many bloggers, a scrappy legion of online commentators and pundits, would like to be considered reporters, too.

If the court, in Santa Clara County, rules that bloggers are journalists, the privilege of keeping news sources confidential will be applied to a large new group of people, perhaps to the point that it may be hard for courts in the future to countenance its extension to anyone.