* This net is child's play for elite high schoolers * AT&T's $1 billion Treasury deal called into question * Stage set for compromise on IEEE high-speed wireless LAN standard * CA resurrects CA World user show * Today is the deadline * Today on Layer 8 * This week’s top 5 stories
I took a course in high school where we wrote programs in assembly language. I had a PC in my bedroom cobbled together from IBM parts that I dubbed the Banana PC Jr. (after the Bloom County computer). Yeah, I was – and am – a nerd. But I had nothing on the high school students profiled in this week’s A Wider Net, who volunteer to be systems administrators for fun and who keep as many as nine computers in their bedrooms. This net is child’s play for elite high schoolers http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/031405widernet.html?net
I took a course in high school where we wrote programs in assembly language. I had a PC in my bedroom cobbled together from IBM parts that I dubbed the Banana PC Jr. (after the Bloom County computer). Yeah, I was – and am – a nerd. But I had nothing on the high school students profiled in this week’s A Wider Net, who volunteer to be systems administrators for fun and who keep as many as nine computers in their bedrooms.
This net is child’s play for elite high schoolers
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/031405widernet.html?net
AT&T’s $1 billion Treasury deal called into question
The Treasury Department wants to spend a billion dollars on voice, video and data services, and a few months ago it awarded the contract to AT&T. Now the Government Accountability Office is saying the department acted too hastily.
https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2005/0317treasury.html?net
Stage set for compromise on IEEE high-speed WLAN standard
The IEEE task group charged with creating a high-speed wireless LAN standard has set the stage for a compromise between two remaining factions with competing proposals.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0317ieeewlan.html?net
CA resurrects CA World user show
After considering canceling this year’s installment of its annual user conference amidst management changes, Computer Associates has put its CA World show back on the calendar. CA said Thursday it will hold the show Nov. 13 to Nov. 17 in Las Vegas.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0317caresur.html?net
Today is the deadline
Network World and AFCOM, the leading association for data center professionals, have teamed to honor innovative IT managers and cutting-edge data centers with our New Data Center Awards. Go to https://www.nwfusion.com/NDCawards to enter now for these awards: Data Center Manager of the Year, Data Center of the Year, and Secure Data Center. Entry deadline is today.
https://www.nwfusion.com/NDCawards
Today on Layer 8, where we won’t take the fifth:
Text messaging yet to catch on in the U.S.; check out the coolest offices on Earth; recovering Pope gets help from high tech; and how much are your employees misusing your network?; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/?net
This week’s top 5 stories so far:
1. This net is child’s play for elite high schoolers
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/031405widernet.html?net
2. Tech Insider: Eye on 802.11i
https://www.nwfusion.com/techinsider/2005/031405tiwireless2.html?net
3. IETF leaders urge detente with rivals
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/031405-ietf.html?net
4. CTIA: Sprint unveils wireless services
https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2005/0314sprintctia.html?net
5. Johnson & Johnson tackles security pain
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/031405-johnson-johnson.html?net
