It’s Apple’s turn for a security update this time. It hasn’t been pulled through automatic update yet (I have it set for weekly checks) but I decide now is as good as time as any since there’s been no changes since my last disk clone. I click on software update to start things off. The [...]
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When Firefox 2 came out and had a close button on every tab I thought it would be great. Convenient and easy to find. Then I started closing tabs accidentally. Sure, they can be re-opened using “History” -> “Recently Close Tabs” but that doesn’t always get back the data when I’m using a web based [...]
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Up along the top you’ll see a new tab called “Projects”. This is where I’ll be tracking some longer term endeavors. We’re kicking things off with two projects.
The first is “Spam” where I’ll be trying to reduce the amount of spam that gets to my inbox along with how various programs [...]
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After signing up for the AOL e-mail I was looking around the AOL website. Now that they’ve been losing customers they seem to have adopted the business model of dropping their price to free but making up for it in volume. They’ve gone Google and will try to make it up in advertising revenue.
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Microsoft sent a security patch to my Windows XP SP2 machine. It’s “MSXML 4.0 SP2 Security Update (KB927978). The details provided are:
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Size: 5.4 MB
A vulnerability exists in the XMLHTTP ActiveX control within Microsoft XML Core Services that could allow for remote code execution
More information for this update can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927978
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I installed the patch [...]
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[Update Jan 1, 2007 - see the first thumbs down]
Registration is straightforward. On the first screen you pick you .com or .net domain. If it’s available you can proceed to the registration screen.
In addition to the typical ID, password and security question you need to provide a cell phone #, alternate e-mail address, date [...]
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