Get the scoop on the upcoming UKLUG conference – September 26th and 27th in London – from the folks on The Taking Notes Podcast.

In a way inconceivable in today’s fragmented marketplace, Usenet was where you went to talk – well, type. Conceived in the early days of the Internet, it was a series of bulletin boards called "newsgroups" shared by thousands of computers, which traded new messages several times a day.

GoGrid chose Google’s Web Toolkit (GWT) to provide a unique web interface for Cloud Computing offering. The Google Web Toolkit team selected GoGrid as a showcase example of the technology. GoGrid’s interface using the Google Web Toolkit can be seen in action on GoGrid’s site.

"Cassandra Chanting" was written undercover by an anonymous voting-world insider. This new book shows how several United States voting systems can be hacked to throw an election, including the upcoming Presidential election.

Ergotron is launching a national promotion called Dare2Dual. Official kick-off is August 1, 2008. Dare2Dual will promote the advantages of using multiple displays with a Web page – featuring productivity resources and links, a productivity Payback Calculator and a light-hearted YouTube video spotlighting a product tester who dreams of a Wild West dual monitor duel.

Peter Presnell offers more information on the .Domino Framework with a discussion of document locking.

Carl Tyler is offering another freebie for Sametime – the Calculator. Nothing fancy, it just adds, subtracts, the usual stuff. Details here: http://www.epilio.com/web/calcplugin.htm

David has been investigating why his primary mail routing hub server is taking so long to route messages. He thinks the behavior started a few days ago but – check here to see what he found.

Technote 4019898 on Lotus Notes Traveler Fix Pack 8.0.1.2 contains the details and download information for this cumulative fix. Fix Pack 2 can be installed on top of Traveler 8.0.1 or 8.0.1.1 (Fix Pack 1)

A new exploit called Evilgrade takes advantage of automatic updaters to install malicious code on unsuspecting systems.

Evilgrade is designed as a modular framework that accepts plug-ins capable of mounting attacks on a variety of software packages employing their own auto-update procedures. Currently targets include the Java browser plug-in, WinZip, Winamp, OpenOffice.org, the LinkedIn Toolbar, iTunes, and Mac OS X, among others.