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Kayodeok's Headlines for January 2004

Saturday 31 January 2004

Security

• Microsoft Internet Explorer CLSID File Extension Misrepresentation Vulnerability
• Microsoft Acknowledges URL Exploit: Suggests some workarounds while you wait
• Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 Security Guidelines
• Is finding security holes a good idea?
• No more usernames in URLs

Privacy

• Where is the Line on Email Privacy?
• Bruce Schneier on terrorism

Web Development

• no-www.FAQ via Keith Devens
• A standard for site organization via Dunstan's Blogmarks

Web Design

• CSS Focus
• Section 508: The Road to Accessibility

Knowledge Management

• XPath query tips
• Structured search, phase two
• More fun with queries

Blogging

• How to build a hot weblog

Windows News

• Microsoft delays major changes to Web browser

Longhorn

• Longhorn Developer FAQ

Open Source

• Why Run Free Software on a PDA?

Programming

• Perl and the Grid Infrastructure
• MySQL Crash Course Part 1
• MySQL Crash Course Part 2
• MySQL Crash Course Part 3
• Using MySQL Full-text Searching
• How Not To Use A Template System
• PHP Tutorial From Zend.com
• Programming is Gardening, not Engineering

Culture

• How to write in plain English via Dunstan's Blogmarks
• Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See via Dunstan's Blogmarks

Friday 30 January 2004

Security

• Another IE flaw discovered
• Microsoft plans to release a software update that modifies the default behavior of Internet Explorer for handling user information in HTTP and HTTPS URLs
• E-mail virus takes on new guise
• U.S. creates cyberalert system
• The FBI's top 10 online security threats

Web Design

• Techniques for Accessible HTML Tables
• A table, s'il vous plait

Web Technology

• The HTTP charset parameter
• The Netscape charset Burp(s)
• Apache HTTP Server: Content Negotiation
• Reading Email Headers: All About Email Headers
• RFC 821 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• RFC 822 - Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages
• RFC By Category

Blogging

• Solving comment spam

Longhorn

• WinFS: Microsoft's Data Management Vision

Programming

• Secure programmer: Countering buffer overflows
• An Introduction to the Unix Shell
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
• Beginning Perl Tutorials

Culture

• The Lord of the Rings: A Nit-Pickers Guide to Deviations Between the Books and the Films
• Nit-Pickers Guide to Deviations in Jackson's LotR

Tuesday 27 January 2004

Security

• What You Should Know About the Mydoom Worm
• W32.Novarg.A@mm Removal Tool (also known as W32.MyDoom)
• Virus, Vandals and Thieves: An Open letter to the Virii Author(s) of 'MyDoom'
• Help! I've been Web-jacked!
• Worms Hit Home
• New e-mail worm breaks infection records
• XP hole could compromise system

Web Development

• Data Access and Storage Developer Center
• 1800+ Photoshop Tutorials

Web Design

• A Couple of Questions About Web Standards Advocacy and W3C Validation Buttons
• The popularity of web standards
• Definition lists - misused or misunderstood?

Blogging

• blogs.msdn.com

Windows News

• Key Events in Microsoft History
• Windows Installer 3.0 Getting Closer

Programming

• Essential Perl Regular Expression Syntax
• Error Checking and Handling in PHP
• Inversion lists with Perl via alpha-geek
• Cygwin User's Guide
• Fabl: A native programming language for the Semantic Web
• Examing Apache Logfiles with Perl
• Perl for Web Site Management: Parsing Web Access Logs
• Buffer Overflows

Sunday 25 January 2004

Security

• Network Monitoring Tools via JoatBlog

Privacy

• With This Law, You Can Spam

Web Design

• Beyond validation
• Friday Challenge
• Web Power Tools
• Vertical Centering with CSS
• Web Designer, Heal Thy Self

Syndication

• My Yahoo! RSS Beta Launched
• ActoRss Feeds
• Adding FeedDemon to Opera, Part II
• All Headline News Feeds

Knowledge Management

• Getting your house in order
• Capturing tacit knowledge: Do you know more than you think?

Blogging

• Attention Blog Spam Roaches: Read the Manifesto! via JoatBlog

Windows News

• Microsoft Justifies Its XML Patent Moves

Utilities

• Nmap Hackers: Nmap 3.50 Released
• WinDirStat

Programming

• More Perl at Microsoft
• 3 resources about Text
• Introducing Mac::Glue
• Web App Security Testing with a Custom Proxy Server

Thursday 22 January 2004

Security

• Users still waiting for browser patch
• Windows 2000 Security Hardening Guide

Privacy

• Biometrics: get ready to destroy all passwords
• AOL tests caller ID for e-mail
• How to Battle Spam

Search Engines

• Search Engine Optimization

Web Design

• Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms
• HTML-only Filters Summary
• The Business Case for Web Accessibility

Web Technology

• mod_pubsub
• PubSub vs. Feedster

Syndication

• 10 reasons why RSS is not ready for prime time

Utilities

• Export IE Favorites To OPML file!

Programming

• Six Signs That You Should Use Paper Prototyping
• MySQL Official GUI Interface
• MySQL Administrator
• MySQL Administrator Screenshot
• Online text obfuscators

Tuesday 20 January 2004

Security

• Resources for Fighting Phishing

Privacy

• Spyware Removal: Best Of

Web Design

• Experimental CSS Design via The CSS Vault
• Pure CSS tooltips

Syndication

• Summaries and their friends
• Give Us Full Posts
• If people won't go to the validator

Blogging

• New York Times Link Generator via Keith Devens

Windows News

• Microsoft: We took MikeRoweSoft too seriously
• Microsoft: We took MikeRoweSoft too seriously (Comments)

Open Source

• Using and Customizing Knoppix

Programming

• Tweaking MySQL (4.x) Primer
• Concept Programming via Keith Devens
• Lambda on Concept programming via Keith Devens
• Basic PHP Security [SQL INJECTION]
• The PHP Anthology Volume I, Chapter 3 - PHP and MySQL

Sunday 18 January 2004

Security

• Latest Trojan 'Phishing' For Personal Data
• Microsoft's latest patch raises questions about its tools
• Identity theft resources
• New Mimail mixes tricks for PayPal scam
• No Phishing Exploit Patch

Privacy

• News: Feds seek input on spammer sentencing
• Digital Rights Managment Year in Review

Search Engines

• DNA Search. Yes, Really
• Kill Google Autofill Script

Web Development

• Tab Browser Extensions
• Diagramming the XML Family
• Using Mozilla in testing and debugging web sites
• Introduction to the DOM Inspector
• A Computer Network Called 'Internet': And Other Sites of Interest
• You mean there IS an IE team?

Web Design

• The Importance of Process in Web Design
• Test Pages for Color Blindness Accessibility
• The Perfect 404
• Fractional Styles

Syndication

• FeedDemon Search Channels
• Adding FeedDemon to Opera
• RSS Feeds: Summary vs. Full Content

Windows News

• Eolas Browser Verdict Against Microsoft Stands Despite Patent Review

Longhorn

• Longhorn's WinFS

Programming

• Code and Personality: How to tell your personality type from your code
• Maintaining Regular Expressions
• Create a regex to strip javascript from Html (PART II)
• Create a regex to strip javascript from Html
• Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles
• Nokia to release Perl for smartphones
• Anti-Extreme Programming article via Alpha-geek
• Using PHP 5's SimpleXML
• Core PHP Programming
• Perl 5.8.3 Released
• Programming Language Genealogies
• Mother Tongues: Tracing the root of Computer Languages through the ages via The Farm: The Tucows Developers' Hangout
• Experiences of Using PHP in Large Websites

Wednesday 14 January 2004

Security

• No relief from Microsoft phishing bug
• Microsoft update ignores spoofing hole
• Problems and Challenges with Honeypots
• Security Management - The Fundamental Tradeoffs

Search Engines

• There's a Gaggle Chasing Google

Web Design

• Internet Explorer for Windows, Box Models and More
• CSS Filters and Hacks

Programming

• Programming Links Roundup

Tuesday 13 January 2004

Security

• MS Security Bulletins Released
• New Trojan masquerades as Windows XP update
• What, me vulnerable? Check your OS for surprises
• Default Password List
• Anti-virus software hole can knock out your system
• Engaging in worm warfare
• Avoid worms with these seven steps
• Security in a spam-filled world
• Information Security Stillness: Tuning for Tranquility

Privacy

• Facing a biometric future
• Random Acts of Spamness
• Yahoo Proposes Anti-Spam Standard For Internet

Search Engines

• Features, Features...To What End?
• Google: More Features

Web Development

• PNH Web Developer Toolbar
• Gecko/MSHTML Comparison Tool

Web Design

• Colored boxes - one method of building full CSS layouts
• Building a site with web standards via alpha-geek

Syndication

• FeedDemon and well-formed Atom feeds
• FeedDemon and well-formed Atom feeds, Part II

Knowledge Management

• Five ways to identify intranet usability issues

Sunday 11 January 2004

Security

• New Trojan masquerades as Windows XP update
• Window of Opportunity: Security during boot-up & shutdown
• New download to remove 'hidden' data from Office files
• Buffer Overflow for Beginners
• Electronic Evidence Information Center
• Handbook of Applied Cryptography
• Hosts File Administration

Privacy

• Spam Links
• Spammers Not Complying With CAN-SPAM
• Tracking "Can Spam": Spammers still ignoring law
• Suing spammers for fraud

Search Engines

• Escaping the Googlearchy

Web Development

• Wanted: CMS
• CMS Wiki
• Opera 7.50 Preview 1 for Windows available
• Defining a Web Site
• Web opens up for learning disabled
• Site Organization Standards?

Web Design

• Elastic Design
• Faux Columns

Syndication

• NewsTrove: Create Your Own Custom RSS
• NewsTrove: Create Your Own Newsfeed
• RSS Feed Reader for P900 (beta3)
• Content feeds with RSS 2.0

Blogging

• Microsoft bloggers come to MSDN

Open Source

• Knoppix Variant Offers Full NTFS Write Support

Tips

• How to avoid accidentally sending a message before you're ready
• Count the number of items in your entire mailbox

Utilities

• Bootit Next Generation 1.61

Thursday 08 January 2004

Security

• IIS Lockdown and Urlscan

Search Engines

• Google DomainPark
• Google whois search

Web Development

• Page Size (KB) - Your Take
• First Preview of GIMP 2.0 Ready for Testing
• Converting Tables To XML

Web Design

• Netscape 4
• The Netscape 4 conundrum
• Cross-Browser CSS Tabs With Rollover

Syndication

• Imageless RSS Feed Icon for Blogroll
• Newsgator Subscription Synchronization
• The Feedroom
• Yahoo Aggregator

Blogging

• What makes blogging different than wikis or other web sites?

Open Source

• Microsoft Ads Called Bogus

Utilities

• Relationship Secure

Programming

• Perl 5.8.3 RC1 is out

Wednesday 07 January 2004

Security

• 'Unfixable' Word password hole exposed
• Word's password feature 'not a security tool'
• A tool is available to remove Blaster worm and Nachi worm infections from computers that are running Windows 2000 or Windows XP
• Microsoft releases Blaster clean-up tool
• Microsoft urges home users to blast MSBlast

Privacy

• Why .biz is the Spam TLD
• U.S. Begins Digital Fingerprinting In Airports
• Why Spammers Laugh at CAN-SPAM

Search Engines

• Google IPOs, Yahoo Attacks

Web Design

• Abstracting CSS
• Flexible design of web sites
• Drawing with CSS

Knowledge Management

• Ten Steps for Cleaning Up Information Pollution

Opinions and Commentaries

• A Big Garage or Why Apple is Cool

Programming

• Is my language really better than yours?
• Working with text files
• An Intro to Templating Your Site
• Introduction to Regular Expressions
• Dot Geek Tutorials

Tuesday 06 January 2004

Security

• Managing Security Risk
• Is your data safe? Is your customer's data safe? Think of...
• Security flaws force Linux kernel upgrade

Privacy

• Spammers Top Microsoft Hit List
• AOL to stamp out spies
• Want to visit the US? Now you have to show your biometrics...
• Leader: Biometrics will march onwards
• Give me some skin: Biometrics get thumbs up

Search Engines

• Beyond Google: Narrow the Search
• Yahoo to Dump Google

Web Development

• The Document is the Database - via Keith Devens.
• Language Instincts - via Keith Devens.

Web Design

• HTML Source: Stylesheets - The HTML and CSS didn't validate when I checked though. Flavell's Law?.
• Tag Soup - via Keith Devens.

Blogging

• Why are bloggers mostly straight white men?
• Weblog strategies for nonprofits

Windows News

• "Get the Facts on Windows and Linux"

Opinions and Commentaries

• Windows XP Service Pack 2 Beta first look

Open Source

• Is the command line necessary for most Linux users?

Utilities

• Doc Scrubber 1.1 - Analyze and scrub hidden and potentially embarassing data in Word documents.
• Fontifier - Your own handwriting on your computer!

Science

• Images Of Mars

Sunday 04 January 2004

Security

• National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace

Search Engines

• Googlebot the Nomad
• Big List of Blog Search Engines

Web Development

• Gee, when did we give away the Internet? (An analysis of news about WSIS)
• Accept headers are horribly broken

Web Design

• HTML Versus XHTML
• Styling <abbr> in IE
• HTML is not an acronym...
• acronym vs. abbr

Syndication

• An introduction to RSS news feeds
• RSS Bandwidth and Gzip compression
• HTTP Conditional Get for RSS Hackers
• Bloglines Killer Feature

Blogging

• Big List of Blog Search Engines
• Comment spam

Open Source

• Explaining Open Source Software
• Apache Cookbook
• Knoppix - Instant Gratification

Utilities

• Daisy v2.1: An intelligent auto-hotfix utility for Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP

Saturday 03 January 2004

Security

• Happy New Worm
• Microsoft Internet Explorer Flaw in Processing '.lnk' Shortcuts Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
• Internet Explorer showHelp() Restriction Bypass Vulnerability
• Security: The year ahead
• All Internet Security

Privacy

• Year in Review: Spam can't be canned
• War on spam turns to open proxies

Web Development

• Relative URIs in HTML
• Build a PHP Switcher
• Manage Your Content With PHP
• Net users bypass browser

Web Design

• Maxwidth-Workaround for Internet Explorer (IE)
• max-width in Internet Explorer
• Ideal line length for content
• Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Shortened Words
• Dead Centre

Web Technology

• Linux Forum
• Apache Freaks
• MySQL Freaks
• PHP Freaks

Syndication

• Example of Hard to Parse HTML
• Share Your OPML: Top 100 Feeds
• CSS in RSS (yet again)
• Content feeds with RSS 2.0

Utilities

• Extreme Power Tools

Programming

• Sockets
• Code Guru
• Unicode decoder tools
• Evil Walrus Relaunched
• Python Revisited

Thursday 01 January 2004

Security

• Sophos: Bank of England virus is a hoax
• Antikl-Dam Trojan fails to infect computers
• 101 Ways to Save the Internet
• Cyber Fraudsters Hit Offices
• New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger
• Hacker breaks into electronic voting firm site
• Defenses lacking at social network sites

Privacy

• SpamBayes: Bayesian anti-spam classifier written in Python
• Can Spam Act: Comes to life this week

Web Development

• What the net did next
• Fix Your WWW!
• Little picture in the location bar
• PHP: Cookies a quick glance

Web Design

• Converting HTML documents to XHTML

Web Technology

• The Best and Worst Technologies of 2003?

Syndication

• Syndication and CSS
• Do Not... DO NOT! Parse HTML with Regex's

Blogging

• Who/What is a blogger?

Utilities

• Windows MD5 Sum Generator
• Autoruns

Programming

• Match WinXP Filepaths
• Programmer Fonts