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Kayodeok's Headlines for November 2004

Tuesday 30 November 2004

Security

• Schneier on Security: Desktop Google Finds Holes
• How to help protect against a WINS security issue
• What You Should Know About Firewalls
• The Cost of Virus Protection Rises

Web Development

• Outsourced Netscape Merges Firefox, IE
• Netscape Browser Screenshots
• Review: Firing Up Mozilla's Firefox 1.0
• How Microsoft can support CSS2 without breaking the Web via Molly
• JavaScript: a free online quick reference by VisiBone via JavaScript Weblog
• Accessible & usable forms: Guidelines, examples and JavaScript tricks via 456 Berea Street

Tips

• Sample Hacks from Knoppix Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools
• Why doesn't the RunAs program accept a password on the command line?
• Anatomy of Credit Card Numbers
• Don't Write a Newsreader: Read This Before You Write a Newsreader, News Transport System, etc.
• Remaster Knoppix without Remastering

Utilities

• CPAU is a command line tool for starting process in alternate security context, basically this is a runas replacement
• PowerPoint Viewer 2003 lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions

gadgets

• Scientists create smart phone that doubles as your nanny
• New, captioned telephone is making it easier for the deaf and hard-of-hearing to communicate

Culture

• Lying Makes Brain Work Harder
• Computer History Museum - Timeline

Wednesday 24 November 2004

Security

• Java flaw could lead to Windows, Linux attacks
• Identification Codes on Printer Output
• Defeating Encryption: Security is More Than Good Crypto (pdf)
• The Spyware Threat And How To Deal With It
• Removing CoolWebSearch
• New Windows XP SP2 vulnerability exposed
• Circumvent Windows XP SP2 Security Features using execCommand 'SaveAs' Function
• Microsoft to fix 'download warning' flaw

Web Development

• Firefox 2.0 Roadmap
• Quotations and citations: quoting text
• Google is a deaf user via Isolani Linklog
• RSS ads: what NOT to do
• Fangs: The Firefox Screen Reader Emulator Extension via 456 Berea Street
• Google Scholar Bookmarklet via Research Buzz
• EEVL releases four new subject-focused databases that provide free access to a couple of hundred ejournals in several disciplines (computing, math, engineering and a metasearch database)
• Opera Introduces Fit-to-Window Technology for All Screen Sizes

Windows News

• Microsoft Drops Windows 2000 SP5

Tips

• CLI Magic: Colorize your prompt
• Install KNOPPIX LiveCD on Hard Drive
• .HTACCESS files useful tips and tricks via The Farm
• How To Steal Wi-Fi And how to keep the neighbors from stealing yours
• Why do folders like "My Pictures" come back after I delete them?
• The Other E-Mail Threat: File Corruption in Outlook Express via Ed Bott
• Defragmenting Your Pagefile
• Us.ef.ul: A beginner's guide to Delicious

Utilities

• Web based XUL Filemanager via Harry Fuecks
• It looks like 7.0 will have a built-in aggregator that will convert RSS Feeds in PDF

Programming

• Inside the Native API
• Rockin' RSS with PHP on your HTML

Culture

• Star Trek is finally back! via idly.org

Sunday 21 November 2004

Security

• Bofra exploit hits "The Register" ad serving supplier
• IFRAME Exploit Spreading Through Banner Ads
• IFRAME Vulnerability Being Exploited Through Banner Ads via Internet Storm Center: Handler's Diary November 21st 2004
• Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator via Dana Epp
• Who Profits from Security Holes? via Spyware Warrior
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 Vulnerabilities / Full disclosure Vs. Security by Obscurity...
• Major Exploit Underway... via Spyware Warrior

Web Development

• Style Sheet Switching: Invasion of the Body Switchers
• Index of all the words and frequency of their occurence on scribbling.net
• How to write firefox extensions via Forever Geek
• With the Google Deskbar API, you can write plug-ins to add your own features to the Google Deskbar via John Battelle's Searchblog
• Getting Started: Apache mod_rewrite Methods
• Solving CSS problems for Mozilla Europe

Windows News

• Author of Linux Patent Study Says Ballmer Got It Wrong via Techdirt
• Microsoft releases a Community Technical Preview of "Avalon"

Commentaries

• The virtues of KISS Principle (keeping it simple and sloppy and its effect on computing on the internet) via Sriram Krishnan
• Tyranny of the geeks via delicious

Open Source

• Boot-managing your Linux+Windows box

Tips

• RFC 1925 - The Twelve Networking Truths via Simon Willison's Blogmarks
• Did you know... you can Ctrl+C to copy the text of a Windows popup error message box to the clipboard?
• Beginners Guides: Cloning WindowsXP via delicious
• DSO Exploit explained via Ed Bott

Utilities

• KWIC Concordance for Windows via scribbling.net
• Nirsoft Freeware Utilities
• radsoft Extreme Power Tools
• SystemRescueCd is a linux system on a bootable cdrom for repairing your system and your data after a crash

Programming

• C++ Coding Standards
• SQLite Tutorial

Thursday 18 November 2004

Security

• Securing Windows XP via OS News
• Microsoft Internet Explorer Two Vulnerabilities
• Microsoft Internet Explorer Cookie Path Attribute Vulnerability
• RFID: Just Another Chip in the (Privacy) Wall

Web Development

• Google Scholar: Stand on the shoulders of giants via Gadgetopia
• Who framed the web: Frames and usability
• Sidebar links with de.licio.us
• Open Letter to Netscape
• Get the Most Out of Firefox: Adding New Search Engines to the Search Bar via Asa Dotzler
• Some Bookmarklets for the New MSN Service
• Bloglines Tips, Tricks and Secrets via Library Stuff
• firefox is a program called a "browser" via Asa Dotzler
• Automated deployment of Firefox with extensions, themes, and pre-configuration via Asa Dotzler
• Netscape Revived With Firefox Backing
• Webucator: A CSS reference that allows you to test your CSS code via CSS Vault
• Standard Forms via JavaScript Weblog

Windows News

• Microsoft has reportedly told Asian governments that they could face intellectual property rights claims if they use free software such as Linux
• And You Thought You Got Too Much Spam...
• Google Groups shows over 5000 authors as billg at Microsoft dot com and over 8000 authors as billgates at Microsoft dot com

Commentaries

• Copyright, Copynorms, and Plagiarism: Little by little, the legal rules of copyright are infecting our understanding of plagiarism
• In an Admin's perfect world

Open Source

• Securing Linux, Part 1: Introduction
• Securing Linux, Part 2: Planning the installation
• Knoppix Hacks
• Charts of the Linux boot process via Keith Devens

Tips

• Customizing Windows Security Templates
• What is this Xerox directory doing in Program Files?
• Windows Server Hacks: Customizing Windows' Just-in-Time Setup
• SysAdmin to SysAdmin: So you wanna be a sysadmin?

Utilities

• The Great Software List via Ed Bott

Programming

• [Unix] vim Tips
• Comfortable PHP editing with VIM
• How programming languages have warped my writing
• EditPlusWiki via Gadgetopia
• Learn to Program: A Tutorial for the Future Programmer via The Farm
• What Works in Software Development (or: How to Be Lazy Without Really Trying) via The Farm
• Solving Problems with Recursion

Sunday 14 November 2004

Security

• Could future computer viruses infect humans? One ex-cyborg thinks they could...
• Malware: what it is and how to prevent it
• Spyware/AdWare/Malware FAQ and Removal Guide
• Google Desktop Security Warning Issued
• Is Your Computer Plugged Up with Spyware?
• Ten New Security Holes in Windows XP SP2

Web Development

• Rediscovering the Web with Firefox via Anne Van Kesteren
• The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks, Chapter 1 - Getting Started with CSS
• :target and conditional text display
• Microsoft Launches Search Beta
• MSN Search has a Weblog
• Google Opens Gmail to External Clients
• Readership Question: The Next Emerging Thing on the Web
• Gmail Tip - How to Create Distribution Lists via Digital Media

Commentaries

• Bruce Schneier On Electronic Voting

Tips

• Optimizing Windows Startup
• Why does Windows not recognize my USB device as the same device if I plug it into a different port?
• Will dragging a file result in a move or a copy?

Programming

• Build Your Own Blogging Application, Part 1
• Build Your Own Blogging Application, Part 2
• Bash Shell and Beyond via Os News
• Java Programming Notes via Forever Geek

Culture

• What do you keep on your USB keychain drive?
• Mathematica's Google Aptitude via Google Blog

Tuesday 09 November 2004

Security

• Security Watch: Six Free Microsoft Security Resources via Brian Johnson
• Microsoft IE Discloses Whether Specified Files Exist to Remote Users
• Recovering From an Attack
• New MyDoom draws on IE flaw to spread

Web Development

• Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Officially Released
• Molly H on Elitism in the Web Standards Community
• Using Tables to Layout Forms
• Why HTML tables are bad form
• Living Data - The Momentum of Webfeeds
• The Sound of the Accessible Title Tag Separator via 456 Berea Street
• You Are What You Index
• Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites via 456 Berea Street

Windows News

• Microsoft Offers to License the Internet

Utilities

• Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to (now available on just about any personal computer in the world)

Programming

• Generating thumbnails with PHP
• Writing Perl programs that speak English
• Authoring Windows Applications In Assembly Language
• Freedom is not garbage; but managing garbage is freedom

Science

• MIT team guides airplane remotely using spoken English via Sprague

Culture

• Brands aren't worth as much as we thought via Gaping Void
• The Decline of Brands via Gaping Void

Saturday 06 November 2004

Security

• The Case For Using Layered Defenses to Stop Worms (pdf)
• Cool maps of the dark side (and the future?) of the Internet via Techdirt
• Analysis of Spyware: A User deliberately infects himself with Spyware in order to write this analysis - Part III

Web Development

• An Hourly Visualization of the News via Search Engine Watch
• To read: Searching Television via Closed-Captioning
• To read: How To Code HTML Email Newsletters
• Building Rich DHTML User Interfaces Revisited
• WordPress Customization Guide for Newbies via Blogging Pro

Commentaries

• Unbending the Truth: Things Microsoft Hopes You Won't Notice

Open Source

• SimplyMEPIS Screenshot Tour (67 Slides)

Utilities

• Google Desktop Search Plus (GDSPlus) is a free add-on that allows you to specify what extensions the new Desktop Search tool from Google will index via Research Buzz
• Portable Firefox 1.0 Release Candidate 1 (USB Drive-Friendly) - with extensions support!

Programming

• To read: Komodo 3.0 Review

Thursday 04 November 2004

Security

• Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerable to buffer overflow via FRAME and IFRAME elements
• Gmail Bugs List via Research Buzz
• Review: Anti-Spyware Programs Clean But Don't Disinfect
• Aluria's Deal with Adware Vendor Sparks Debate
• Scripting Security Descriptors in Windows
• Bypassing client application protection techniques via Donna
• Internet Explorer IFRAME Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
• How Spyware And The Weapons Against It Are Evolving
• Microsoft denies spoofing is a security flaw
• Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification via Susan Bradley

Web Development

• sorttable: Make all your tables sortable via The Farm
• Tuning up your Skills in the Web Search Garage
• Amazon's A9 Search Engine Toolbar Now Available for Firefox
• CSS: Uncollapsing Margins
• A review of CSS Cookbook (it's on my wishlist provided the second edition is better) via Lockergnome
• Google Personalized Search via Ed Bott
• Content Negotiation via 456 Berea Street

Commentaries

• Ubiquity in the Internet Age
• Novell's Response to Steve Ballmer's letter to customers on Linux via Microsoft Monitor
• Schneier on Security: Computer Security and Liability
• Security Liability Laws are NOT the Answer
• User Education Is Not the Answer to Security Problems via Simon Willison
• Thoughts on Designing for Data

Tips

• encrypted file system recovery via Root Secure

Utilities

• Fdate is a utility for doing date formatting and date arithmetic in MS-DOS batch files via Gadgetopia

Programming

• Introduction to Unicode
• Object Orientation Tips via Forever Geek
• Using Unicode in Linux
• Introduction to Microsoft Shell (MSH)
• Perl 6 grammars and regular expressions via alpha geek
• Building Custom Error Pages with PHP and Apache via Chris Shiflett
• A Development Infrastructure for PHP via Harry Fuecks

Culture

• Classifieds via Anne Van Kesteren
• Electing to Leave: A reader's guide to expatriating on November 3 via Andy Baio
• Sun Policy on Public Discourse via Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog