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Kayodeok's Headlines for September 2004

Wednesday 29 September 2004

Security

• These 5-Minute Security Advisor series has been created to help quickly communicate important security topics, tasks, and issues via Delicious
• Get help securing your corporate network with these step-by-step How-to guides via Delicious
• Antivirus software could be ill-prepared to protect corporate networks from the latest Windows vulnerability - innocent-looking JPEG files that contain security attacks
• Wordpress Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
• GDI Scan Tutorial and how to fix the GDI+ JPEG Vulnerability

Web Development

• CSS 2.1 Property Reference via 456 Berea Street
• FeedDemon now offers integration with NewsGator Online Services (NGOS)
• Bloglines Web Services
• Bloglines Web Services - After 24 Hours

Windows News

• Some guy was able to order 150 Windows XP SP2 CDs from Microsoft, and they sent them all via plutor
• How to Cure the Windows XP SP2 Upgrade Blues

Commentaries

• Whither Microsoft and RSS?
• Don't Worry, Microsoft Will Wake Up and Smell the RSS

Programming

• Troubleshooting Problems with MySQL Programs
• Why Your Code Sucks

Tuesday 28 September 2004

Security

• GDI Vulnerabilities : An open letter to Microsoft
• Evidence For The Microsoft WinXP Pro Bugging Device (FUD)
• JPEG GDI+ Trojan Unleashed
• First JPEG Virus Posted To Usenet
• Most organizations don’t realize that USB and Firewire ports offer an unbelievably easy and accessible way to take sensitive information outside of the enterprise
• Peer-to-peer technology has been used to create an e-mail network said to be free of spam, viruses and snoopers
• Users forced to wait until 2008 for full PC security under Longhorn

Web Development

• The Joel Test for Web Development - Part 3
• WordPress FAQ
• FeedDemon 1.5 Beta 1 with Bloglines Integration
• Learn all about RSS from CNET via Forever Geek
• Dear one-browser Web designers: Don't say I didn't warn you
• Semantic Web is a Program

Windows News

• Hotmail to wean users from free export tool

Programming

• PHP Login System with Admin Features

Culture

• Life Imitates Star Trek: SonoPrep Needle-less Injection
• A new breed of TV - featuring on-demand programs and choose-your-own music video channels - is delivered over phones lines that are equipped with a high-speed internet connection

Sunday 26 September 2004

Security

• Creating viruses in a university course, Part 1
• The minefield of hiring a hacker
• Hackers use Google to access photocopiers
• Snort Rules to Detect JPEG GDI+ Exploits
• Assessing Internet Viruses Like Human Epidemics
• Sometimes it sucks to be a Geek

Web Development

• Mozilla Now Strong Challenger to Internet Explorer
• Could Newer Browsers Dethrone IE?
• Copy and Paste: A description of problems caused by character encoding mismatches via 456 Berea Street
• Guidelines for Linking
• The Joel Test for Web Development - Part 1
• The Joel Test for Web Development - Part 2
• The Perfect Search? Ask Apple

Tips

• Computer First Aid Using Knoppix via Heal Your Church Web Site

Programming

• Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial: A Beginner's handbook
• Online Book: Practical PHP Programming via The Farm
• John Coggeshall's Slides on OO Programming in PHP 5
• Object Oriented Programming in Perl
• Seven habits of effective text editing

Science and Technology

• Two guys broke the 6GHz barrier for desktop processors with a Pentium 4 originally clocked at 3.6GHz and lots of liquid nitrogen

Thursday 23 September 2004

Security

• GDI Scanner Released
• Rogue Spyware Removal Blog
• Microsoft to secure IE for XP only
• Microsoft To Provide IE Patches for Windows XP Only (slashdot comments)
• this link to a JPEG supposedly crashes a fully patched Win XP SP2 (not linked to the MS04-028 exploit)
• Click here to become infected

Web Development

• 10 Minutes to Printer Friendly Page via CSS Vault
• Using Definition Lists For Forms

Commentaries

• What you're telling me by running Windows
• Why Microsoft Can't Hire Great Programmers via Robert Scoble

Programming

• Dangers of SQLite Ignorance via PHP Developer
• Why You Need Coding Standards

Culture

• Alevt is an open source teletext/videotext decoder via Slashdot
• A New Reason to Love Star Wars
• 'Star Wars' DVD changes
• Leap into the digital spaces of fellow bus travellers
• Personal blog sold for US$15k via Read/Write Web Links
• Swedish 3G sign language cellphones
• Israeli lip-reading phone
• Star Wars Bonus DVD Overwrites Xbox Dashboard

Monday 20 September 2004

Security

• Exploit for Microsoft JPEG Flaw Is Published
• More than 30,000 PCs per day are being recruited into secret networks that spread spam and viruses
• 'Microsoft will not completely protect you' says Gartner

Web Development

• A Firefox in IE's Henhouse
• One Million Firefox downloads in just 4 days
• How to crash a fully patched Internet Explorer 6
• Portable Firefox: How to run Firefox from a USB Key
• CSS Comment Bugs: The Varieties of Comment Bugs in Microsoft Internet Explorer via Isolani
• Visual vs Structural: "There are two very different types of web authors: the visually orientated and the structurally orientated" via Isolani
• "Feed Your Reader" Firefox Feed Extension
• Back To Basics: (X)HTML Specs Made Easy via 456 Berea Street

Windows News

• Microsoft Announces Government Shared Source License for Office
• Microsoft trials piracy lock on Download Center
• Windows Genuine Advantage FAQ

Commentaries

• How Microsoft Plans to Use a New USB Standard to Cripple Linux
• Robert Scoble: How your blog will get discovered
• Shelley Powers' response to Scoble: This is Wrong on Oh So Many Levels
• Why online newspapers require registration via TechDirt

Utilities

• OutLock is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2000/2002 (XP)/2003 which enables you to encrypt and decrypt individual messages with a single click via slipstick

Culture

• I like this vision of a darker Buffy via Whedonesque
• If the washer starts saying "I'm sorry Susan, I can't do that", we're in big trouble
• Towards an internet in space: "What we are looking at now is the possibility of using the internet kinds of protocols to support the communications for spacecrafts that are moving around in the solar system"

Tuesday 14 September 2004

Security

• Readers of The Register innocently sabotage their Windows boxes
• Gmail Phishing - Warning! via Donna Buenaventura
• Virus 'talks' to victims
• PDA Forensic Tools: An overview of current forensic software designed for reporting of data discovered on PDAs and an understanding of their capabilities and limitations

Web Development

• XHTML as business failure
• Browser innovation is alive and well
• Browser Wars: The Fight Has Just Begun
• Web Development: Why we are so zealous
• The Need for Web Design Standards

Saturday 11 September 2004

Security

• Microsoft is giving premium customers advance notice of security bulletins
• Here's a document outlining some simple steps that financial institutions can take to limit the impact of phishing on their website (pdf)
• Should I be posting links to cracking tools?
• A huge IRC "botnet" controlling more than 10,000 machines has been shut down
• How to remove Spyware and Malware from a Windows Computer via ed Bott

Web Development

• Opera releases a browser aimed at viewing Web pages on TV
• The Economics of XHTML: why using strict, semantic XHTML will both save and make your business money via 456 Berea Street
• The future of HTML
• One reason why "html allowed" in blog comments should be restricted to a few html tags
• How to migrate your own blog to WordPress via Anne Van Kesteren

Windows News

• Longhorn Will Have Ability to Ban External Storage Devices via Slashdot

Tips

• Beginners Guides: Windows XP Safe Mode Explained
• How Windows XP Service Pack 2 Affects Gaming
• Running restricted - What does the "protect my computer" option mean?
• How to stop Internet Explorer from opening up Office documents inline via The Office Weblog

Programming

• You Know You're Addicted to Coding When... via Delicious

Culture

• The British Library is putting high-resolution copies of Shakespeare's plays on the internet
• 3 Asian students have developed a software that uses Bluetooth to shutdown the camera functionality of select cameraphones
• PayPal is now going to start fining people $500 if they use PayPal in association with porn, gambling or buying unauthorized prescription drugs over the internet via Techdirt
• Panasonic's new DVD recorder has a massive hard drive and can be programmed using a cell phone

Monday 06 September 2004

Security

• Someone to watch over the Internet: A typical working day for an Internet Storm Center Handler

Web Development

• Gallina is a GMail blog tool that uses GMail messages as "entries" via Slashdot
• Google puts the hammer down on Google parodies
• Paper Vs Pixels: Differences between designing for print and designing for the Web (Part 1)
• Paper Vs Pixels: Differences between designing for print and designing for the Web (Part 2) via 456 Berea Street
• The curse of anonymity
• A theory on the curse of Anonymity via Comments for "Curse of Anonymity"
• Bullet madness is a growing list of bullets, arrows and icons which are free to use
• The Underscore Hack: MSIE 5 for Windows ignores the "_" at the beginning of any CSS property name via Delicious
• The bookmarklet solution to the password problem
• Why I don't recommend Firefox via Simon Willison

Commentaries

• A Review of Mozilla's Sunbird Stand-Alone Calendar Application

Programming

• Project Management: How not to respond to a Change Request
• What you should know about MySQL

Culture

• Dexter Cartoon: The Salesman
• The War Room: In September, a select group of Army infantrymen, Marine corpsmen, Navy sailors, and Air Force pilots at Fort Sill will become the first military personnel to learn the art of combat and the rules of engagement from surround sound action movies starring themselves. via Metafilter
• Brits turning into computer buffs: 75% of adults have used a computer at some stage in their lives

Friday 03 September 2004

Security

• WinXP SP2 = security placebo?
• U.S. Defense, Senate Computers are Zombie Spammers
• Cryptanalysis of MD5 and SHA: Time for a new standard
• SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken
• CERT Advisory: "Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) significantly improves your computer's defenses against attacks and vulnerabilities"

Web Development

• Ctrl + 0 resets Firefox text size back to default
• Helpful notes for those interested in working with liquid layouts via Web Graphics
• Ten CSS tricks you may not know via Nick Bradbury
• How to track an RSS feed
• Embittered Generals: Daniel Glazman on Innovation outside the W3C via Simon Willison
• WYSIWYG screenscraping: Imagining software which makes sense of HTML
• Screenscraping the Senate: Paul Ford's plan to create an RDF description of the U.S. federal government
• Identifying Atom

Windows News

• Windows 1.0 to XP: Screenshots via delicious
• This video shows Steve Ballmer selling Windows 1.0 via Photo Matt
• Bruce Shneier talks about Windows XP SP2 at Neowin

Commentaries

• The emerging two cultures of the internet: There are two cultures growing - those who can filter, and those who can't

Tips

• The Whole Truth About Metadata in Office Documents via Ed Bott
• Windows XP Home Secrets

Utilities

• Advanced Security for Outlook: Get rid of the annoying security alerts in Outlook! via Slipstick

Programming

• In Search of the Ideal Programming Language

Culture

• We walk on the left hand side of a footpath. Our trains run on the left. We drive on the left. Why is it that on London escalators the rule is reversed: i.e. Keep right and allow any faster commuters to overtake on the left?