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Business Week: “Looking back, 2005 will likely be viewed as a turning point. It was a year when CIOs signed off on open-source projects, a big change from previous years when that happened only after low-level engineers started such projects on their own initiative. It was a year when venture capitalists woke up to the [...]
InfoWorld: Application development reports “Update: Malicious hackers busy exploiting zero-day Windows flaw. Fully-patched systems running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 can be successfully attacked by malicious hackers, various security firms warned Tuesday and Wednesday. By Juan_Carlos_Perez@idg.com (Juan Carlos Perez).”
Short form: IE seems to be subject to exploitation when navigating to a hostile site and [...]
Just to clarify that last post. Mike Sullivan pointed out that Google is posting pages from Hentzenwerke books with the publisher’s permission and/or cooperation. Google is not infringing on my copyright by doing this. I signed over the right to publish my books to Hentzenwerke, with some limitations, and I believe this is within those [...]
Via Scripting News: “Steve Rubel discovers how to read O’Reilly books, in full, for free, thanks to Google Books.”
It works the same way for Hentzenwerke books, too. Why lug around a 1300-page reference when you can just look it up on Google. Note that Google watermarks the page with “Copywritten Material” while publishing it for [...]
There’s been a recent flap about iTunes and iPods losing all their content and the ugliness of it all. The ugly underside of Digital Restriction Management is epitomized by this Apple support web page:
Otherwise, if your hard disk becomes damaged or you lose any of the music you’ve purchased, you’ll have to buy any purchased [...]
Slashdot asks Do LUGs Still Matter?, pointing to an article by Joe Barr, writing for NewsForge. The answer for all UGs hasn’t changed: User Groups matter if they matter to you. If there’s something you want out of a LUG and you’re willing to put some effort into a LUG, amazing things can happen. Everyone [...]
Joho the Blog posts “Three models of the Internet. Grant McCracken blogs about three ways of taking the depth and seriousness of the Net’s effect on culture. Here’s a distillation, but you should read the whole thing: 1. Disintermediation – “The Internet is an efficiency machine. It removes the friction…” 2. Long Tail – “The [...]
Computerworld News reports “Serious flaw reported in Symantec antivirus software. Symantec’s antivirus software is vulnerable to an attack that could allow a malicious hacker to gain control of a system.”
If you’re using a Symantec product, temporarily stop scanning .RAR files and avoid new RAR files until the flaw can be patched.
Over at Shedding Some Light, Rick Schummer posts: IIS Dead in the Water “Dead as a doornail. Less useful than a pet rock. Internet Information Services (IIS) v5.1 on my Windows XP Professional SP2 (all the latest patches) development box has decided to take a holiday break. Normally this would not be a big deal, [...]
Over at Scripting News, Dave Winer notes, “Congratulations, you made it to the shortest day of the year. They all get longer from this point on.”
