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Kayodeok's Headlines for Saturday 02 October 2004

Saturday 02 October 2004

Security

• silentrunners.org: An analysis of why CoolWebSearch is so difficult to remove
• PivX Improves Security For 300 Million Non-XP Users
• A software slipup in RealNetworks' music player means that Windows, Mac and Linux computers could be compromised by a fake movie file
• Gates: Microsoft to offer anti-spyware
• These spyware and adware mischief-makers have taken root on more than their share of hard disks
• (To Read): PDF file on "Hidden Data in Electronic Documents"
• Are hackers using your PC to spew spam and steal?
• A critique of port knocking

Web Development

• Memoirs From the Browser Wars
• The Beauty and Business of CSS (Douglas Bowman's presentation at Web Essentials 2004) via 456 Berea Street
• Tabbed browsing gets even better in Firefox

Commentaries

• On Being a "Resource"
• Are you a resource?

Utilities

• Use ToolbarCop to remove the unwanted Toolbands, Toolbar icons and Browser Helper Objects from Internet Explorer

Programming

• (To Read): A Programmer's Guide to the Mind
• (To Read): Unicode for Programmers (draft)
• PHP and Unicode (PHP still doesn't have native unicode support)

Culture

• Google Challenge: How to keep soon-to-be wealthy workers from cashing out and moving on (around 60 percent of Google employees hold stock options worth at least $1 million) via Jeremy Zawodny