Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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HostingTech. This month's issue, as usual, has a number of excellent articles including the Armchair Quarterback's question, Is the [Loudcloud] Opsware launch the last nail in the MSP coffin?. Also, coordinated article by Max Smetannikov and review by Kevin Self of the three leading vendors of server-virtualization software packages: Ensim, Plesk and Sphera.
The bad news is that HostingTech doesn't publish articles from their most-recent issue on line. The good news is that hard-copy subscriptions are free.
Posted Monday, August 12, 2002 2:43:47 PM 
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The Hosting Idiot Savant Syndrome. Ever wonder how vendors can be absolutely brilliant in one area, and yet remarkably incompetent in others? Here's my latest column for Internet World.
Posted Monday, August 12, 2002 2:18:42 PM
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In the News. The widespread problems continue to spread throughout the hosting industry. In the past week:
[Sources include CarrierHotels]
Posted Monday, August 12, 2002 1:51:13 PM
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Spell Check for Web Forms. I got this from the 9/3/02 issue of PC Magazine. (Can't find it on line.) Here's some JavaScript that works with IE:
oShell=new ActiveXObject ("WScript.Shell");
oShell.SendKeys ("^c"); //copy
oWord = new ActiveXObject ("Word.Application");
oWord.Visible = true;
oWord.Documents.Add();
oWord.Selection.Paste();
oWord.ActiveDocument.CheckSpelling();
oWord.Selection.WholeStory();
oWord.Selection.Copy();
oWord.ActiveDocument.Close(0);
oWord.Quit();
var nRet = oShell.Popup ("Apply changes?\nClick OK to replace all selected text.", 0, "Spell Check Complete", 33);
if (nRet==1) {oShell.SendKeys ("^v");}
Paste the above into a file such as spellcheck.js. Drag the icon for this file to IE's "Links" toolbar and rename the link. Select text in any browser text box and click on the button. It launches Word, runs the spell checker, and replaces the text. Not ideal, but better than nothing.
Posted Monday, August 12, 2002 1:00:23 PM
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