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Kayodeok's Headlines for Monday 20 September 2004

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"