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Kayodeok's Headlines - October 2003

Friday 31 October 2003

• Computer Security: Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for Security
• Search Engines: Microsoft and Google: Partners or rivals?
• Search Engines: Microsoft 'explored Google tie-up'
• Search Engines: Microsoft and Google: A Terrible Match
• Search Engines: Non-English Search Tool Takes the Web World Wider
• Longhorn: Microsoft Adding Blogs to Longhorn?
• Longhorn: Preview: Microsoft's Windows Longhorn
• Longhorn: Fast Forward to 2006: It's About Time and Space
• Longhorn: Avalon is hot
• Longhorn: Longhorn Command Shell (codename MONAD)
• Palladium: The Next-Generation Secure Computing Base: An Overview
• Palladium: Developers get hands on Microsoft's upcoming security technology
• XUL vs XAML: Avalon isn't about Web/GUI convergence
• XUL vs XAML: XUL
• BBC: World drowning in oceans of data
• Slashdot: Man Arrested in Australia Over Nigerian E-mail Scam

Thursday 30 October 2003

• Security: Unpatched Internet Explorer Bugs
• Security: Worms and toasters turn up heat on corporate security
• Palladium: Developers get their hands on Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB)
• Web Standards Project on XUL vs XAML: Gooey Standards
• Filipe Fortes on XAML vs XUL: XAML vs XUL
• A List Apart: Sliding Doors of CSS, Part I
• A List Apart: Sliding Doors of CSS, Part II
• Web Design: Why tables for layout is stupid
• Longhorn: Windows Codename Longhorn PDC Build 4051 Tweak Guide
• Longhorn: Longhorn creates new information connections
• Google: Google eyes book search
• Slashdot: Lindows Announces Nvu - Frontpage For Linux?
• Microsoft Vs Eolas: W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination
• Security and Windows: Most UK companies 'still vulnerable' to blended attacks
• Security and Longhorn: Security and web integration is key to Longhorn, says Microsoft
• Open Source Movement: MS moves to counter open source growth in UK gov

Wednesday 29 October 2003

• Microsoft Vs Eolas: W3C Calls for Invalidation of Eolas Patent
• Code Weavers: Macromedia software ready for Linux
• Via Kase: Find out what Microsoft's IT Department is doing
• Shoot the Messenger: Microsoft to shoot Messenger in next update

Tuesday 28 October 2003

• Panther: Microsoft Borrowing From Apple Again?
• CNN: Hackers defense: The computer did it
• Slashdot: System Recovery with Knoppix
• Longhorn: Microsoft adds Longhorn and WinFX details
• Web Standards: Longhorn and XAML
• House of Horrors: HTML House of Horror: Things That Go <BLINK> in the Night
• Via Woodys Watch: NTFS File System Glitch
• Dan Gilmoor: White House Website and History
• Still on the White House Website: White House Website Limits Iraq-Related Crawling
• Slashdot: Which Adware and Spyware are the Most Insidious?

Monday 27 October 2003

• Take a Self-Guided Longhorn Tour
• Longhorn Developer Center
• Longhornblogs: Top 10 things to remember before installing Longhorn
• FeedDemon: FeedDemon 1.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2)
• Longhorn: Gates trots out Longhorn
• Wired: Post Office Wants to ID the Mail
• Amazon: Authors may challenge Amazon full-text search
• Security Focus: Microsoft Windows HTML Help API Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
• Secunia: Microsoft HTML Help Control Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
• Perl: Database Programming with Perl
• Slashdot: More Looks At Far-Off 'Longhorn'
• Contra Costa Times: Macs less susceptible to problems from bugs
• Zdnet: Microsoft vs. spam: Technology is not enough
• Bug Fix: Mozilla Firebird 0.7.1 Released For Mac OS X
• Log Files: Mining for Exceptions in Log Files

Sunday 26 October 2003

• "Security is a Weakest-Link" Problem: Can WINE Compromise Unix?
• Windows Longhorn build leak starts hype two years early
• On Longhorn: "You will never want to go back to any older versions of Windows"
• Your Rights Online: Amazon's Book Search Hits a Snag
• Still on Amazon Search: Another NY Times v Tasini? Amazon's Book Search Hits a Snag
• InfoWorld: Office 2003 power comes at a cost

Saturday 25 October 2003

• misbehaving.net: A Weblog about Women and Technology
• Discover: How the Web Edits News
• Serving up XHTML with the correct MIME type
• Horror: The unlikely human Frankenstein
• Opinion: Microsoft's coming acquisitions
• eJournal: Microsoft Puts DRM into Office
• Slashdot: Germany Publishes Windows to Linux Migration Guide
• DDoS Attacks Victimize Popular Weblogs
• New law would require computer security audits, status reports
• Tech ignorance, vague laws lead to mistaken conviction
• AOL closes Windows Messenger Service
• For a small Fee: Longhorn pre-Beta 1 For All!

Friday 24 October 2003

• Jay Rosen: "Blogging is About Making and Changing Minds."
• Nick Bradbury: Optimizing your RSS feed for FeedDemon
• Wired: Spammers Clog Up the Blogs
• Wired: The Great Library of Amazonia
• Open Source: Steve Ballmer's Slip
• PC Mag: Where Is Windows Going?
• Why there hasn't been development of IE
• Slashdot: Robert Cringley on Microsoft and Linux
• I, Cringley: How Microsoft's Misunderstanding of Open Source Hurts Us All
• Linux on the desktop: On the way, slowly
• Son of MSBlast on the way?
• Microsoft posts 'revisions' to security bulletins

Thursday 23 October 2003

• Amazon: Search on the Full Text Inside the Book on Amazon.com
• Steve Ballmer: Open Source is Not Trustworthy
• Denmark urges government support for open source
• Security and the much needed unification of servers
• LonghornBlog: Long Winded Rant against the Open Source Community
• Patchy years ahead for software users
• Microsoft Office 2003 - Reviews, Overviews, Issues
• Obfuscation: Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere (Linux for example)
• Eweek Reports: Microsoft Opens Windows Source Code to Its MVPs
• Marie Jo Foley Asks: Microsoft's Newest Shared Source License: What's the Catch?
• Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (Second Edition)
• Late to the Party: Web Browsers Hijacked by New Bug
• Beginners Guides: Little Known Features of Windows XP

Wednesday 22 October 2003

• A List Apart
• Techniques for learning where the bottlenecks are in your PHP-based Web application
• Microsoft opens Windows Source Code to its MVPs
• Apple tweaks iTunes for Windows
• Bruce Schneier: Terror Profiles By Computers Are Ineffective
• Using XPath to mine XHTML
• Microsoft To Unwrap Longhorn Code

Tuesday 21 October 2003

• XP music feature raises antitrust concern
• Patching Paranoia - How Fast Do You Patch?
• 85% of Computers in China affected with Computer Virus
• Why people write computer viruses
• Outside The Inbox: Songs Inspired by Spam

Monday 20 October 2003

• Reaction to iTunes for Windows
• How Outlook 2003 takes care of spam on its own
• Linux to Use Windows Drivers via Wrappers?

Sunday 19 October 2003

• Survey: Windows Developers Say Linux More Secure
• Will Apple's 'Panther' Make a Meal of Microsoft's 'Longhorn'?
• CSS: 3D Border Demo
• Microsoft launches 'leak-proof' e-mail
• Apple's iTunes breaks some Windows 2000 Installations
• iTunes for Windows may face new piracy threat
• Microsoft Word Macro Name Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
• Matrix Sequel Has Hacker Cred
• iTunes for Windows
• The Perl Cookbook, 2nd Edition