Network World columns

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2001

see "Edited" for the version that ran in the paper.

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• 2001-01-08: Advice for GWB ( p 32) Edited

Unsolicited advice for the incoming Bush administration

• 2001-01-15: Why did you think it would work? ( p 34 ) Edited

Advertising supported "free" services 

• 2001-01-22: Just engineering? ( p 34 ) Edited

How much technology is new since 1900?

• 2001-01-29: Paying lawyers by the hour ( p 46 ) Edited

Pillsbury saying that they own the concept of "bakeoff" 

• 2001-02-05: Talking to a mirage? ( p 38 ) Edited

The end of end-to-end security

• 2001-02-12: Advertising vulnerabilities ( p 35 ) Edited

"Researchers warn Internet's core vulnerable to attack."

• 2001-02-19: An unhealthy tension ( p 38 ) Edited

The US Congress vs. the Internet

• 2001-02-26: If you send me email, make it plain ( p 40 ) Edited

Problems with HTML email. 

• 2001-03-05: At least they are consistent ( p 40 ) Edited

Airports trying to rip off the traveler

• 2001-03-12: Squeezing a balloon ( p 46) Edited

Stopping Napser will not stop filesharing

• 2001-03-19: Can someone please sue one of them? ( p44 ) Edited

Poor security at e-commerce sites

• 2001-03-26: Old bugs do not die easily ( p 54 ) Edited

TCP sequence number guessing attack

• 2001-04-02: The best of both worlds ( p 30 ) Edited

Apple's OSX operating system

• 2001-04-09: Almost a joke ( p 37 ) Edited

April Fools Day RFCs

• 2001-04-16: Part of the way down a slippery slope ( p 42 ) Edited

Germany proposing to attack Internet sites they do not like

• 2001-04-23: A privacy kind of guy ( p 44 ) Edited

G W Bush claims to be "a privacy kind of guy"

• 2001-04-30: I don’t get it ( p 32 ) Edited

Bad ads in the technology world

• 2001-05-07: Muttering about VoIP ( p 72 ) Edited

Quality in Voice over IP

• 2001-05-14: Bell-izing the Internet ( p 34 ) Edited

Congress pushing broadband deployment

• 2001-05-21: Is it save to not go in the water? ( p 32 ) Edited

Can a corporation exist without a web site?

• 2001-05-28: A decision to be applauded ( p 46) Edited

Microsoft says it will protect US customers as well as it does those from Europe

• 2001-06-04: Your tax dollars at work ( p 52 ) Edited

Government support for real research 

• 2001-06-11: The missing Internet ( p ) Edited

BCR lost the Internet

• 2001-06-18: What's wrong with this picture? ( p 40) Edited

Microsoft "Smart Tags"

• 2001-06-25: Quite an achievement ( p 44) Edited

Nortel losing $19 B in a quarter

• 2001-07-02: The view depends on where you stand ( p 26 ) Edited

Global Crossing's future as seen by the Wall Street Journal

• 2001-07-09: A confluence of events ( p 38 ) Edited

Monopolies and their impact

• 2001-07-16: Not for the 4th ( p 30 ) Edited

Bad time to worry about personal rights on the Internet

• 2001-07-23: My last ATM column ( p 30 ) Edited

Was ATM a religion or a technology?

• 2001-07-30: Forgetting DCE ( p 32 ) Edited

The future of the Distributed Computing Environment

• 2001-08-06: Mapping a way forward ( p 30 ) Edited

Mapquest's business model

• 2001-08-13: A blurry vision ( p 30 ) Edited

Grid computing as the Internet of Tomorrow

• 2001-08-20: Jittery about jitter? ( p 28 ) Edited

Jitter in the Internet can be quite small

• 2001-08-27: Billing for VoIP? Not that easy! ( p 36 ) Edited

The illogic of assuming that carriers can bill for VoIP

• 2001-09-03: Not so sure bets ( p 30 ) Edited

Predicting what technologies will win out

• 2001-09-10: Legally mandated stupidity ( p 26 ) Edited

Anti-circumvention rules in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

• 2001-09-17: The end of the free world ( p 24 ) Edited

Congress trying to change all computers to do Hollywood's bidding

• 2001-09-24: When comprehension fails ( p 30 ) Edited

The September 11terrorist attack

• 2001-10-01: Tensions in a privacy purest ( p 24 ) Edited

Privacy vs security

• 2001-10-08: Emergency service in a best effort world ( p 28 ) Edited

Emergency use of the Internet

• 2001-10-15: Will the wrong wireless succeed ( p 28 ) Edited

Will 802.11 supplant Bluetooth?

• 2001-10-22: Does going it alone make sense? ( p 26 ) Edited

Is a separate network for government safer?

• 2001-10-29: Will we be able to restore in the future ( p 26 ) Edited

The future of outage resistant network designs

• 2001-11-05: That future was a thing of the past ( p 32 ) Edited

Sprint's (re)announcement of On-Demand Networking

• 2001-11-12: Juggling eggs ( p 26 ) Edited

Microsoft Passport

• 2001-11-19: Crime and freedom ( p 26 ) Edited

The Council of Europe's "Convention on Cybercrime"

• 2001-11-26: Prolonging the inevitable ( p 20 ) Edited

Internet taxes

• 2001-12-03: Illuminating security holes ( p 26 ) Edited

The FBI's Magic Lantern

• 2001-12-10: Will the bits ever make it home ( p 28 ) Edited

The future of broadband to the home

• 2001-12-17: Forgettable songs? ( p ) Edited

Renting rather than buying music