Archive for January 24th, 2008
Jan
24
Mozilla is working to fix a browser flaw that could give attackers unauthorized access to data on a victim's machine.
The problem is similar to other data leakage flaws found in the open-source browser, according to researcher Gerry Eisenhaur, who first reported the problem on Saturday.
Eisenhaur has posted sample code
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Jan
24
Many sites try to convince you to set them as your homepage: for example, every time you visit google.com using Internet Explorer, the site prompts you to make Google your homepage (Firefox's default homepage is already a skinned google.com).Other sites are created just to become your homepage: from classic portals like Yahoo.com to
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Jan
24
Not happy with what Windows Vista has to offer? Well, you will soon have a chance to bring a breath of fresh “open source” air to the latest Windows client. This will be possible with the integration of a Linux desktop environment into Vista. However, Vista users still have to be patient as the
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Jan
24
Google’s Marissa Mayer gave a “deep dive” presentation on Google Earth at the DLD conference in Munich yesterday (see our coverage from the first day here). Her presentation is embedded below. Lots of interesting stats and creative use of the technology: “Hundreds of millions of Google Earth downloads and activations,” and the
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Jan
24
CNET has published an article called Acid2, Acid3 and the power of default. The article predicts that IE8 will not pass the Acid2 test after all: '[Another] scenario could be that Microsoft requires Web pages to change the default settings by flagging that they really, really want to be rendered correctly. Web
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Jan
24
At the time of writing this article, there is only one company that produces an anti-virus product that actually supports WHS, and that is Avast. People have reported that they have successfully installed and used other products on their WHS boxes, but there are also reports of data being corrupted by those products. This is simply
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Jan
24
Are your existing servers and desktops capable of running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista? Do you wish to quickly determine if your infrastructure is ready for Microsoft's virtualization technologies such as Virtual Server 2005 R2, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, and Microsoft Application Virtualization (SoftGrid)? Look no further.
The new Microsoft Assessment and
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Jan
24
I love the ecosystem around Microsoft technology... The 3rd party component vendors add some much jazz and productivity to our platforms. I recently saw a list of the component vendors already shipping products for WPF and I couldn't help but share it.
Are there any I am missing? What has your experience with these been?
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Jan
24
With the first end date deadline for the general availability of Windows XP just six months away, June 30, 2008, there are a number of XP licensing questions that are still on the minds of internal licensing desk managers and enterprise IT departments.Part of the confusion comes from the terminology Microsoft uses
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Jan
24
It is no secret that HPC Server 2008 will offer the option to make the head node of a HPC cluster highly available. This feature is not in beta 1, but it is being developed. It will exploit fail-over mechanisms provided by Server 2008 (enterprise edition or better), so I thought I'd mention some highlights in
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Jan
24
Om Malik report that Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic and creator of open-source blogging system WordPress, has revealed that Automattic had raised a whopping $29.5 million in a Series B Round of funding, including a strategic investment from The New York Times Co. Previous investors True Ventures, Polaris Ventures, and
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Jan
24
Asus has formally launched its bonsai laptop, the Eee PC, in Japan, pre-installing the machine with Windows XP Home Edition rather than Linux.
The machine's specifications proved to be those of the standard 4GB solid-state disc model - the Eee PC 701, aka the 4G, though in Japan it's called the 4G-X.
In addition
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Jan
24
Microsoft has released instructions for administrators who want to avoid a forced upgrade to the latest version of its browser, Internet Explorer 7, which is due to occur on 12 February. Users of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) -- Microsoft's software-update service for businesses -- who are currently using Internet Explorer (IE) 6 will
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Jan
24
Here's a heads-up on a Microsoft Application Virtualization KB article we recently published regarding a Java error you may receive when sequencing Vignette Business Integration Studio:http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945623
Error message when you try to sequence Vignette Business Integration Studio in Microsoft SoftGrid:
"java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/oberon/ide/ConsoleStream"
Softgrid for Terminal Server EN
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Jan
24
User interface project allows you to control objects on a display using gestures, working like Microsoft's Surface but without touching the screen at all. Inspired by Johnny Chung Lee's work, the system requires you to wear Minority Report-style gloves equipped with infrared emitters on your fingertips. A Wiimote on top of the
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