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Kayodeok's Headlines - December 2003

Wednesday 31 December 2003

Security

• Email hoax targets Bank of England
• Are you sophisticated enough to recognize an Internet scam?
• Semantic Hacking
• Information Security Predictions for 2004!
• The future of security

Privacy

• Alan Ralsky Gripes About Can Spam Act
• Spammers Concerned by CAN-SPAM?

Web Development

• Designing search engine friendly PHP pages
• Ten Security Checks for PHP, Part 1
• Process flow meets the London Underground

Web Design

• Web Design Tools
• Liquid layouts - the easy way

Syndication

• My Yahoo to RSS

Tips

• Windows XP Section - Turn Off Default Services
• Windows XP Section - Turn Off Default Services (Comments)
• Frequently Asked Questions: Windows XP

Utilities

• Doug's Windows XP Security Console Tool

Programming

• Secure programmer: Keep an eye on inputs

Tuesday 30 December 2003

Security

• Another bank spoof phishes for data
• The Eight Rules of Security
• Terror warning conceals virus
• IT Security: Bad in 2003? Worse in 2004?
• Scripting flaws in IE could open up many systems to hackers

Privacy

• Inside Spyware: A Guide to Finding, Removing and Preventing Online Pests
• Adware and Under-Wear - The Definitive Guide

Web Development

• Ungreek
• Building with Flash and MySQL
• Publish Dynamic Data with SQL Server's Web Assistant Wizard
• The Daily Sucker for Tuesday, December 29, 2003: Top Annoyances

Web Design

• Old Dog Learns Stylesheets
• I Do Not Use Accesskeys

Syndication

• RSS with CSS

Tips

• Frequently Asked Questions: Windows Server 2003 Family
• Linux Workstations in a Windows Domain?

Utilities

• TinyLogger for Kerio/Tiny Personal Firewall
• Kiwi Syslog Daemon

Monday 29 December 2003

Security

• Why you should block AOL Client on a corporate network
• 2003 Review of the Year: Security
• Exploitation of Buffer Overflows Under Windows XP

Privacy

• Junk e-mail 'costs an hour a day'
• Temporal 'Tax': Microsoft's spam solution
• Congress Loves Spam - If It's From Congress

Search Engines

• Papers written by Googlers

Web Development

• Knock, Knock: Information Pollution Is Here

Tips

• Optimizing Windows XP (German)

Sunday 28 December 2003

Security

• Microsoft Internet Explorer Trusted Domain Default Settings Facilitate Silent Installation of Executables
• Microsoft Internet Explorer For Mac HTTP Referer Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Privacy

• Phishing tricks spoil holiday cheer

Web Development

• Directory Structure

Web Design

• Classes Vs IDs

Web Technology

• 2003 in Review: Technology trends turn painfully realistic
• 2003 in Review: A War of Words

Programming

• What is Extreme Programming?
• The Rules and Practices of Extreme Programming
• Pragmatic Programmers: List of Tips
• Pair Programming: An Extreme Programming Practice
• Pair Programming
• Pivoting on ALL_OBJECTS

Culture

• Find O' The Day: WordNet

Friday 26 December 2003

Security

• Stop Christmas-Gift PCs From Feeding Worms
• Researchers Outline Microsoft's Top 10 Challenges For 2004
• The 2004 Security Survivor's Guide
• Security Best Practices Should Come Top Down
• Experts: Microsoft tweaks, new laws won't make '04 safer
• 'Phisher' site targets Visa, as holiday scams abound
• Deploying ICF in Managed Environments with XPSP2

Privacy

• Microsoft aims to make spammers pay

Web Development

• Internet History In Pictures
• The format=flowed FAQ (f=fAQ)

Web Design

• Color Picker II
• Color Schemes made simple
• CSS: Copyrightable?

Web Technology

• PHP: A Simple Tutorial
• MySQL Crash Course
• MySQL and Open Source Quality
• MySQL 5.0.0 (Alpha) Released

Blogging

• Auto-closing MT Comments on Old Blog Entries

Tuesday 23 December 2003

Security

• Tools Coming for Digital Immunity
• Looking Back At Windows Security In 2003
• Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
• An In-Depth Look Into Windows Security in 2003
• NIST releases Guidelines for Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to Security Categories

Knowledge Management

• Personal Knowledge Mapping

Opinions and Commentaries

• The Internet Is a Very Sick Place

Programming

• Seepage
• Quick C#
• Using Transactions In MySQL (Part 2)
• MySQL & Open Source Code Quality
• O'Reilly's Best of 2003

Monday 22 December 2003

Security

• Fix released for flawed open-source IE patch
• IE fix mends flawed open-source patch
• Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

Privacy

• Spam law allows bounty hunts
• Kaspersky Labs strikes another blow against viruses
• Your Cell Phone... is Watching You
• Can Spam? Or New Can of Worms?

Programming

• Python 2.3.3 Released
• Pitfalls of Transactions with PHP
• Dynamic SQL vs. sproc performance
• LWP::Simple

Web Development

• 'Saving' the Internet?
• Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003

Blogging

• The Easiest Way to Publish del.icio.us Links on Your Site

Tips

• Windows XP Tips

Sunday 21 December 2003

Security

• IE Exploit 'Patch' Pulled
• Application security on the client side: Meet your network's weakest link
• Security isn't a technical problem: It's a business problem

Privacy

• Brightmail Denies "White List" Deal With Spammer
• Sued spammer claims Brightmail deal
• How do spammers harvest email addresses?
• How to spot and stop spam
• Your Cell Phone Is Tracking You
• Consulting firm says spam is 'product of the year'

Web Development

• Disable CSS bookmarklet
• Deep thinking about weblog organization
• Anatomy of a linkblog
• Writing faster PHP code (1): require_once
• Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML

Windows News

• Microsoft Sends Linux Survey

Programming

• C# Cookbook: Sample Chapter on Regular Expressions

Saturday 20 December 2003

Security

• Vulnerability Scanning with Nessus
• 'Open source' IE patch withdrawn for further patching
• Has security come to this?
• More E-Voting SNAFUs

Privacy

• Dumpster-Diving for Your Identity

Web Development

• Launchy Extension Allows Links to be Opened with External Applications

Web Design

• Usability and HTML Forms
• Easier Form Validation with PHP

Web Technology

• Sentient Data Access

Syndication

• 4 Simple Steps to capture, render, subscribe, aggregate, and manage RSS feeds

Windows News

• Real sues Microsoft, alleges monopoly abuse
• Open-source group issues Microsoft patch

Opinions and Commentaries

• Gene Spafford on Linux vs Microsoft Security
• Why Real sued Microsoft

Longhorn

• Windows Longhorn Build 4051 Review
• Part One: Introduction
• Part Two: A Quick Look at the Developer Preview Build
• Part Three: Longhorn Presentation Technologies
• Part Four: Introducing User Experiences

Programming

• Blosxoms, Bryars and Blikis
• Perl is Sweet Sixteen

Friday 19 December 2003

Security

• Sponge's Security Solutions
• Insecurity by Obscurity
• Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

Search Engines

• Google trials text search

Web Development

• Information Architecture Rules
• 100 Mozilla Tips
• IE Accessibility Toolbar
• Clay Shirky: RIAA Succeeds Where Cypherpunks Fail
• How the Information Age = The Dark Ages

Web Design

• CSS superscript spacing
• Browsers and fonts
• Unicode fonts for Windows computers
• CSS Target Trick
• SimpleQuiz

Syndication

• Testing the Atom API
• myFeedster
• Bloglines supports Atom 0.3
• Notes on Atom autodiscovery

Blogging

• Perfectionism: Blogmarks
• Clagnut: Blogmarks
• Simon Willison: Blogmarks
• Definition of a weblog

Windows News

• RealNetworks: MS Won't Play Fair
• Microsoft Statement on RealNetworks' Legal Action
• It's Out: XP SP2 Beta 1
• XP Service Pack 2: Last Stop Till 'Longhorn'

Open Source

• The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6
• Linux 2.6.0 kernel released

Programming

• 235,000 Fewer Programmers by 2015
• Perl spidering hacks
• Making regex dynamically
• Perl is 16 - Happy Birthday
• The PHP Anthology Volume 1, Chapter 1 - PHP Basics
• The composition of text
• Programming without exceptions

Wednesday 17 December 2003

Privacy

• Do We Want a Do-Not-Email List?
• Canning Spam, or Enabling It?
• Enjoy email with Knowspam
• Knowspam: Issue with sending mail to Yahoo.com

Search Engines

• Google Print
• Search Print

Web Development

• XFN: Friendly Discussions
• XFN: XHTML Friends Network
• MySQL Symbolic Links
• Metadazzle overfizzle

Web Design

• CSS, Accessibility and Standard Links
• Do we code or not?
• How to Conceive a Layout
• CSS Diagrams or Things to Do With CSS When You're Bored at Work

Open Source

• Microsoft's New Core OS Team Learning from Linux

Programming

• How Not to Program in PHP

Culture

• The Best of 2003

Tuesday 16 December 2003

Security

• Take Steps to Avoid Getting Tricked by Spoof Websites
• Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites
• This Holiday Season, Protect New PCs Before Connecting to the Internet
• Microsoft's XP Update Makes Security 'Paradigm Shift'
• IE Overhaul Part of Windows XP SP2
• Bugtraq: Microsoft's plans for making XP more secure
• Mozilla Partially Vulnerable to Internet Explorer URL Spoofing Security Flaw

Privacy

• Judge OKs Internet Company's Pop-Up Ads
• Why we've finally canned spam
• It's not called 'Can' Spam for nothing
• Commentary: Spammers must pay
• Spam Officially Legal

Search Engines

• Google Print
• The "Creeping Googlization" Meme

Web Development

• Introduction to Mozilla Manual Available
• Introduction To XAML
• New Microsoft.com Design Change

Web Design

• Web Design Resources
• More CSS trickery
• CSS Layout Techniques

Syndication

• RSS & BT Together?
• New Browser Based RSS Aggregator
• Fastbuzz Headline News

Longhorn

• MS moves into 'get Longhorn on the road' mode

Open Source

• What Is Linux?

Programming

• Spidering Hacks
• Cultured Perl: Fun with MP3 and Perl, Part 1
• Culture of UNIX and Windows Programmers

Culture

• Fox announce "Best of Buffy" DVD (R2)

Monday 15 December 2003

Commentary

• What Microsoft needs to do in 2004
• Microsoft's Top 10 Challenges for 2004

Security

• The Anatomy of Cross Site Scripting
• What to do about scumware?
• Microsoft looks into Web-spoofing bug

Privacy

• Top UK sites 'do not comply' with anti-cookie law
• ID theft: Is it happening to you?

Search Engines

• Google: Automatic Stemming

Web Development

• No recovery for the Internet

Web Design

• 4096 Color Wheel

Knowledge Management

• The Ideal CMS

Blogging

• Put a human face on your linking: XFN

Longhorn

• Introducing "Longhorn" for Developers (Chapter 3: Controls and XAML)

Open Source

• Microsoft steams as open source Bill passes

Utilities

• Vaporware: A Call for Submissions

Programming

• Cultural differences between Windows and Unix Programmers
• Perl Added to OED (Really)

Culture

• American Film Institute: Movies of the Year

Sunday 14 December 2003

Security

• Intrusion detection or protection?
• Basic security is the best foundation
• Get security right the first time
• Opera Browser Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability

Privacy

• UK To Start Biometric Passport Trials
• Can CAN-SPAM Put a Dent in Spam?

Search Engines

• Search engine Optimization Guide
• Google delivers parcel search

Web Development

• Static content generation
• Content management, the hard way
• Skin your flowcharts in the style of the London Tube map
• Grouping table data by header
• IIS FAQ
• Why proper HTTP status codes matter

Web Design

• Andy Budd: Some Interesting Web Design Links
• Andy Budd: More Nice CSS Sites
• Andy Budd: Even More CSS Sites
• CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
• Where every browser gets it wrong
• PHP Image Gallery
• Font-Style Switcher

Web Technology

• Pigeons Faster than Internet

Syndication

• How to Search RSS Channels for News
• Atom Info Proposal
• Atom 0.3 snapshot
• Atom Info Proposal: Improving the human readability and understanding of Atom feeds
• How To Use Mime-Types To Get Your Aggregator To Subscribe To An Atom Feed
• Atom API Rev 9 is out

Knowledge Management

• Mining the intranet

Windows News

• More on What's Coming in XP SP2
• Retired Microsoft Operating Systems Still Popular
• Service Pack for XP Ready; What About Win2000?

Longhorn

• Gartner says Longhorn should be renamed to "LongWait"

Open Source

• 2004: Year of Linux?

Programming

• Using data structures in PHP
• Learning how to be a developer

Culture

• A Return Of The King Review

Saturday 13 December 2003

Security

• Danger - Phishing ahead
• Microsoft probes IE flaw that allows spoofing of Web sites
• Commentary: DOS attack--paying for others' problems
• PC Mag - Mac OS X Insecure
• Microsoft's Patent Tricks
• Update on the IE vulnerability
• Spoofing for Dummies
• Mozilla Status Bar Manipulation Weakness

Privacy

• Anti-spam law will tie up UK firms up in red tape
• Legal Recourse Against Spammers You May Know?
• Phoenix School to Install Face Scanners

Search Engines

• Google Testing New Look
• Search By Number
• Google is offering more contextual search results, including package tracking options

Web Development

• SQL Vs. Access for Learning Database Concepts?
• Better Web
• World's Largest Databases Ranked
• Curb Cut Learning
• Accountability in Accessibility Testing
• Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition

Web Design

• Enhancing Structural Markup with JavaScript
• CSS Tables
• Advanced Tables Tutorial
• Night of the Image Map
• Accessible Image Replacement
• Death of Liquid Layouts?

Web Technology

• Toward a Brain-Internet Link

Syndication

• Atom in Depth

Blogging

• You're all a bunch of blogging Grandmas
• Gender and style

Windows News

• Update: Microsoft readies Windows XP Service Pack 2 beta
• Users cling to old Microsoft operating systems

Longhorn

• Windows Longhaul? Longhorn could be 2008, says Gartner

Open Source

• Windows-to-Linux roadmap: Series overview
• Myths About Open Source Development

Utilities

• PortQry Command Line Port Scanner Version 2.0

Programming

• OOP over the top
• Python to Perl Language Translation
• This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-12-07 [Dec. 07, 2003]

Culture

• Remix of the London Tube map

Thursday 11 December 2003

Security

• Beast 2.05 Trojan Security Advisory
• Sensitive data exposed on Web
• New IE Bug Hides Real Site Address
• IE Flaw Lets Spoofers Con Web Surfers
• More, worse cyberattacks seen coming in 2004
• Microsoft's Patent Tricks
• Microsoft Wins HTML App Patent
• Microsoft: Patches, Patches Everywhere!
• IE glitch gives spoofers powerful tool
• IE bug lets fake sites look real
• Microsoft: Extra patching a precaution

Privacy

• Identity and privacy: it's all about context
• Anti-Spam Law Has Holes
• Tomorrow's Menu: Spam, Spam, Spam
• UK Spam Law Goes Live
• Schemes to Spoil Spammers

Web Design

• More chicken flavor
• Flexible 3 Column Layout
• A Touch of Class
• Writing Efficient CSS

Syndication

• Agree to RSS Terms?
• Aggregators and Information Overload
• The Birth of "The Metaweb"
• Why RSS isn't always a good thing

Programming

• I hate PHP
• PHP in contrast to Perl
• Perl on Slashdot
• Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules
• Extreme Programming FAQ
• The Poetry of Programming
• How to Design (Declarative) Programming Languages

Knowledge Management

• You Want Data?

Tips

• Debugging Services for Application Compatibility Testing

Utilities

• Your Uninstaller! 2003

Culture

• Multilingual Dictionaries
• Shazam!

Open Source

• Linux Power Tools

Web Development

• Web Sniffer
• Linkrot

Wednesday 10 December 2003

Privacy

• Kill Those Blasted Index.dat Files

Syndication

• RSS Pushed One Step Closer to the Limelight
• On RSS, Blogs, and Search

Windows News

• Microsoft Retires Windows 98
• Microsoft to ditch older products

Utilities

• The Bat

Culture

• The Definitive Episode 3 Spoiler Synopsis
• Obnoxious "Under Construction" Gifs
• The Construction Sign Museum

Security

• Inherent insecurity
• Internet worms and critical infrastructure
• No Christmas patches from Microsoft
• Hold the Presses: No December Security Bulletins
• Internet Explorer URL Spoofing Vulnerability
• Bugtraq: Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerability
• IE bug provides phishing tool
• Microsoft patents 'HTML applications'
• New Ways To Exploit Windows Flaws Give Hackers Ammo
• Mystery patch blots Microsoft's fix-free month
• Flaw could unleash another Slammer
• Worm hits Windows-based ATMs
• Security Update for Windows XP Embedded with SP1 (825119)

Sunday 07 December 2003

Culture

• Worlds Most Powerful: Bill Gates Vs Steve Jobs
• Kazaa Lite shut down by Sharman Networks
• Did you die on 9/11? If so, the government would like a word with you.

Security

• Fake ATM Fraud Expose

Privacy

• Yahoo! Develops Anti-Spam Architecture
• Yahoo's New Plan to Fight Spam

Web Development

• The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators
• 150 is a lot of features

Syndication

• Office 2003 Research Service
• Sun, RSS and Apple Challenge Office Dominance
• RSS, Key to User Freedom
• New RSS 2.0 Editor

Knowledge Management

• Arthur C. Clarke on Information Pollution
• The intranet gets serious: Part 3: publish what you can manage

Office News

• With Little Fanfare, MS Posts Remaining Schemas

Open Source

• Future of 2.4 and 2.6 Kernels
• Open-Source Development 'Faster, Better, Cheaper'

Utilities

• Applications You Can't Live Without

Programming

• Larry Wall, Perl 6, mixins, and orthogonality
• Debuggers and logging

Saturday 06 December 2003

Security

• Patch Management Mailing List
• Yahoo plugs IM security hole

Privacy

• Gartner: U.S. law won't deter spammers

Search Engines

• Google wants ruling on search trademark law

Web Development

• Recommended Data Modeling Tools?
• Simpler content managment
• The Template Toolkit

Web Design

• A List Apart: Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards: Part 1
• A List Apart: Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards: Part 2
• CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners Borders

Syndication

• First Congressional RSS Feed

Windows News

• Want a PC With That Internet Service?

Open Source

• Gnome 2.4.x Installation Guide

Utilities

• The Electronic Evidence Information Center: Digital Forensic Utilities
• The Gnumeric Spreadsheet

Programming

• How Perl Powers the Squeezebox
• Template::Extract
• Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
• The Template Toolkit

Culture

• The Slow Death of American Slavery

Thursday 04 December 2003

Culture

• Photoshop was invented for Star Wars

Security

• Self-defeating Security
• How to handle patch management
• MS exec: Virus authors are winning big
• Spammers Tap Unwitting Users' PCs
• An inside look at Microsoft's new security scheme
• New e-mail worm targets antispammers
• Yahoo Instant Messenger contains security flaw

Privacy

• Pornographic Spam And The Workplace
• Report: A third of spam spread by RAT-infested PCs

Search Engines

• Scroogle: Enter your search terms and weep

Web Development

• Bookmarklets
• AnyBrowser.Com - Screen Size Tester
• PHP blo.gs blogroll

Windows Views

• Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System

Open Source

• How to Misunderstand Open Source
• Windows-to-Linux roadmap: Part 1 - Thinking in Linux
• Windows-to-Linux roadmap: Part 2 - Console crash course

Programming

• Reg Explanations
• Brief Guide to Regular Expressions

Wednesday 03 December 2003

Culture

• Amazon stupidly breaks their wishlist URLs
• ActiveWin.com Book of the Day: Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft
• Establishing a DVD Standard

Security

• Real Security?
• Dell To Techs: Don't Help Customers Remove Spyware
• Windows ATMs raise security concerns
• Fraudulent e-commerce site proves hard to close
• Microsoft finds flaw in server software
• Serious Linux Security Flaw Found

Privacy

• Spam fears dampen online Christmas shopping
• Australia's Largest ISP Redefines Spam
• Nigeria gets tough on email fraud scammers, Sophos comments
• Gym-goers wary of camera phones

Web Development

• MSN Upgrades Hotmail
• Awards for websites with 'vision'

Web Design

• ASP to PHP, with MT to Boot!

Knowledge Management

• How to create a know-it-all company
• What has been delivered by KM over the last ten years

Blogging

• Microsoft Test Drives Another Blogging Tool
• How to convince bosses to let you weblog

Office News

• Microsoft to reveal its Office secrets

Open Source

• How to Misunderstand Open Source Software Development

Monday 01 December 2003

Security

• The Ten Commandments of PC Security
• Internet Security: Where Do We Stand
• Microsoft, user differ on details of Exchange 2003 flaw
• Users warned of spammer and virus writer collusion
• How to: Patching: Process matters

Privacy

• How to: Fighting spam
• How to: Spammers stay one step ahead
• Anti-spam market braces for shakeout
• Spammers turn to classic prose

Web Development

• Non-scientific poll: .htaccess files
• Comprehensive guide to .htaccess

Web Design

• Selectutorial - CSS selectors

Windows News

• Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold

Culture

• The Two Towers: Extended, Enhanced, Redeemed
• Are You HIV Prejudiced?
• Microsoft Software in Every Car?