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Kayodeok's Headlines for Tuesday 05 October 2004

Tuesday 05 October 2004

Security

• Bruce Schneier has a weblog via Rafe Colburn
• RealNetworks Fixes Security Holes
• Symantec Wants To Be Security's Microsoft via Tom's Hardware Guide
• Avinti's iSolation Server detects viruses by executing code in virtual machine environment before a virus can attack a user's computer
• Intel Ships "Execute Disable" Pentium 4's: Execute Disable Bit allows the processor to classify areas in memory by where application code can execute and where it cannot. When a malicious worm attempts to insert code in the buffer, the processor disables code execution, preventing damage or worm propagation.

Web Development

• My Yahoo Search and Yahoo Next are Launched
• Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web

Windows News

• Is AT&T moving its 70,000 PCs over to Linux? AT&T says the reports are "Fiction. Out of context"
• What does uncovering the secret language of DNA have in common with reverse-engineering Microsoft software?

Open Source

• A quick guide for repairing your kernel from a live CD
• Screenshots on How to Install Debian (94 Slides) via osdir.com

Utilities

• MD5 Checksum Tools for Windows
• ComputraceComplete is a software which is programmed to follow trails left by computer thieves

Programming

• Free text editors for the rest of us via Forever Geek
• Software Companies Fight Back: Bad Software Isn't About The Code
• Slashdot Comments: Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Software

Science

• Welcome to the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (for example, what's next in sequence: 10, 9, 60, 90, 70, 66?) via MetaFilter
• As if there aren't already enough nasty military weapons in the world, the U.S. Air Force is looking into the possibility of making matter-antimatter weapons