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Kayodeok's Headlines for December 2004

Wednesday 29 December 2004

Security

• Top Ten Consumer Privacy Resolutions
• How to Fix Mom's Computer
• Netcraft Anti-Phishing Toolbar Available for Download
• Network Security Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools
• Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities
• Microsoft's strategy for addressing spyware and other potentially unwanted software

Web Development

• Guide to Unicode, Part 1 via 456 Berea Street
• Guide to Unicode, Part 2 via 456 Berea Street
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Directors Cut via 456 Berea Street
• How to speed up firefox? (Some warnings)
• At I.B.M., That Google Thing Is So Yesterday
• Writing Test Cases for Web Browsers via Anne Van Kesteren

Windows News

• Microsoft granted patent for "Method and system for compiling multiple languages" via Techdirt
• Microsoft granted patent for "Method and system for editing software programs" via Techdirt

Open Source

• An introduction to system administration of a Linux system for novices
• Installing the Knoppix LiveCD on a hard drive

Science and Technology

• Great moments in microprocessor history
• One Canadian's Wireless Neighborhood Network Could Someday Serve Us All
• After the IBM Deal, Where Is the " PC" Business Headed?

Culture

• Why There's No Escaping the Blog via Gaping Void

Wednesday 15 December 2004

Security

• Windows XP SP2 Popup Blocker Bypassing
• A look at the new generation of WEP cracking tools for WiFi networks
• Use port knocking for a more secure method of opening ports
• Police granted powers to install spyware and Trojans

Web Development

• Web Applications 1.0: Working Draft
• Architecture of the World Wide Web now a W3C Recommendation
• Firefox Static Desktop Icon
• Thunderbird Static Desktop Icon
• Using the XML HTTP Request object
• XMLHttpRequest for The Masses
• Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing
• Print our HREFs on Links for Print StyleSheet
• MinimizeToTray: A powerful extension to minimize Windows versions of Firefox and Thunderbird to the system tray

Open Source

• How to Install Debian Linux on a desktop computer - Part I
• How to Install Debian Linux on a desktop computer Part II
• There are some very good reasons to use OpenOffice.org instead of Microsoft Office, and the best reasons have nothing to do with cost of the software
• Bootchart is a tool for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process

Tips

• How to handle and interpret BSODs on Windows
• Tweaking XP: Windows File Protection and SP2
• Configuring PuTTY - A step-by-step guide
• How to calculate the last day of a month in MS Excel

Programming

• PHP is not Python is not Java
• The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security
• Automate the process of documenting your code

Friday 10 December 2004

Security

• Multiple Browsers Window Injection Vulnerability Test
• Multiple-Browser Frame Injection Vulnerabilities: Workaround for Firefox
• DirectRevenue Deletes Competitors from Users' Disks
• Adware cannibals feast on each other
• DirectMedia, BetterInternet, VX2 Exposed
• Is This Software On Your Hard Drive?
• Schneier on Security: The Digital Person
• Bruce Schneier: Who says safe computing must remain a pipe dream?
• Penn State: Don't Use Internet Explorer
• What Price Privacy?

Web Development

• Google Suggest via Research Buzz
• Hacking Google Suggest via Nick Bradbury
• Auto complete comes of age
• Colors for Web Designers: Web-Smart Palette via SitePoint DHTML & CSS Blog
• The alt and title attributes
• Blank alt attributes
• Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 Getting Started Guide
• When Information Access Is So Easy, Truth Can Be Elusive

Windows News

• New file system has long road to Windows

Gadgets

• Britons growing 'digitally obese'

Tuesday 07 December 2004

Security

• Spyware on My Machine? So What?
• Privacy, Spyware and Data Sharing: The Real Piracy via Spyware Warrior
• Detecting Complex Viruses
• Anti-Virus Evasion and Countermeasures (pdf)
• Passwords - Common Attacks and Possible Solutions (pdf)
• Five Mistakes of Security Log Analysis (pdf)
• Malicious Code in Depth (pdf)

Web Development

• The Most Hated Advertising Techniques via 456 Berea Street
• Internet Explorer is already breaking the web
• Unbreaking the Web
• Dean Edwards (of IE7 fame) has a weblog via Anne Van Kesteren
• Relatively Absolute - An Explanation of Positioning with CSS via 456 Berea Street
• Blocking RSS advertising
• The right way to do titles on the web
• How Mozilla determines MIME Types via Anne Van Kesteren
• Secrets of Firefox 1.0
• Search Engines for Handwritten Documents
• PureJPEG: Remove Unnecessary Disclosure And Reduce The Size Of Your Images via Joel on Software

Commentaries

• Opinion: Ignorance of the Geek
• What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?
• Definition of Today's Geek!

Open Source

• Linux Cookbook is now on store shelves!
• Linux Newbie Administrator Guide

Tips

• The complete guide to uninstalling Windows