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Archive for October 20th, 2006

20 Oct

OOBE as it was meant to be…

I've been holding off on purchasing a new laptop until IBM/Lenovo had a Linux-compatible ThinkPad T61p with the Merom (”Core 2 Duo”) CPU installed. “End of October” is the latest estimate, but knowing how long Real Soon Now can get to be, I elected to pick up a bench spare laptop Just In Case. My [...]

20 Oct

The good news: it's not an IE7 vulnerability. The bad news?

SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green is reporting New Internet Explorer and an old vulnerability, (Fri, Oct 20th). “As you probably know by now, Microsoft yesterday released the final version of Internet Explorer 7 …”
There was a great flap as Secunia grabbed the headlines by claiming that they had found a vulnerability in IE7. Not [...]

20 Oct

InfoWorld: Microsoft re-releases a security patch

Microsoft reissues buggy patch for Windows 2000 users.
(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has reissued a Windows security patch that it published last week because the software did not work properly on Windows 2000 systems.
Folks running Windows 2000 servers, take note! Your machines are still vulnerable until you install this patch.

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