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Archive for August 17th, 2005

17 Aug

Clay Shirky: Ontology is Overrated: Links, Tags, and Post-hoc Metadata

Recorded at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California on March 15, 2005, and available for you to download and/or listen online at IT Conversations, Shirky cites several examples of why hierarchical representations of the web (Yahoo, dmoz) don’t work as well as the freeform “tagging” of Google, del.icio.us or Flickr. Worth an [...]

17 Aug

OTOH, if you have a Mac G5 and run (rare) 64-bit apps, hold off on patching…

OSNews reports Latest OS X Update Breaks 64-bit Support. “The most recent Mac OS X security update from Apple Computer includes a glitch that prevents users from running 64-bit applications on the company’s new Tiger operating system, AppleInsider has confirmed.” 64-bit apps are still rare in the Apple world, limited mainly to console or [...]

17 Aug

Microsoft’s patched UPnP vulnerability continues to be exploited

InfoWorld: Top News reports Experts see new variants of Windows 2000 worm.
(InfoWorld) - Security vendors have reported several new variants of the worm infecting PCs running Microsoft’s Windows 2000 operating system. Groups of virus writers are competing to cause the most damage, according to one security company, although the worm appears less severe than some [...]

17 Aug

Max OS X Tiger gets patch today

Computerworld News notes that Apple releases security update for Mac OS X. “Apple has released a security update for Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” that updates several of the components and technologies in the operating system.” In Apple’s Software Update, it goes on to say:
“Security Update 2005-007 delivers a number of security enhancements and is [...]

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