Does anyone else see irony in Gates speaking at a casino on Microsoft’s solutions for security and spam?
Seattle Times: Gates armed with Microsoft arsenal against spam. “Gates announced new spam-filtering technology called SmartScreen. Developed by Microsoft’s research division, it will be included in all of the company’s e-mail products. The technology uses new ways to scan and detect junk e-mail before it hits a customer’s inbox.”
Some of my posts do not seem to be making it to the server. I don’t know why. Time to investigate some Radio support sites…
I’ve always had a special fondness for date math and trivia and supporting date and time data. I’ve implemented custom solutions for clients on various groupware packages. The Open Source Development Lab recently did some research on finding an optimal server that would run on Linux and support calendaring and meeting processing across several client platforms. A perfect solution was not found (when is one?), but they chose to publish their results to help others in their search, posted here: Cross Compatible Calendaring
As all the other FoxPro bloggers have noted, Ken Levy posted his monthly “Letter from the Editor” on Microsoft’s MSDN page for Visual FoxPro. The feature list matches pretty closely with that reported from Alan Griver’s keynote session at the Frankfurt conference last week, and expands on the information previously released.
Scott Simon on the NPR Weekend Edition program used his editorial time to talk about blogs. He started with “Blogs… blah. Two days don’t go by that a friend doesn’t send me a link to a blog” and ended with “Plato taught us that the unexamined life is not worth living. Blogs remind us that the over-examined life is not worth reading.”
Theodore Sturgeon summed it up years ago in Sturgeon’s Law: “Ninety percent of everything is crud.” Most AOL Home pages are banal. So is most literature. Recently, in a bookstore, I was astounded to scan two bookshelves full of audio tapes to discover there was little I really wanted to read.
But consider it from a different angle. Few of us sit down and take the time to write a letter, longhand, in pen and ink and post it via mail to our close correspondents. Blogging is the new letter writing, the new journalling, the new diaries. And, yes, 90% of them are crud, but 10% are not. And while much of what we have to say is pretty dull, there are the jewels to find, if not the comfort in reading that the lives of others are not that much different from our own.
Gartner recommends multiple platform deployment as protection from “Day Zero” attacks.
Enterprises that maintain 10% or more of their desktops on an alternative operating system, such as Linux or Macintosh OS, are much less vulnerable to business outages than those that use only one operating system, such as Windows.
Link from the Hentzenwerke Publishing blog.
Some interesting conclusions that patching doesn’t work. Not convinced that I agree. Patching may not work if the underlying operating system is insecure enough, perhaps. But an interesting read.
CIO: FrankenPatch. “Those looking to cast blame–and there were many–cried a familiar refrain: If everyone had just patched his system in the first place, Slammer wouldn’t have happened. But that’s not true. And therein lies our story. Slammer was unstoppable. Which points to a bigger issue: Patching no longer works.” Link from Tomalak’s Realm
Eugenia Loli-Queru, OSNews Editor, had a difficult time with Fedora, the Red Hat -based and -sponsored free Linux distribution, in “Review: Fedora Core 1 is a Mild Disappointment“
Due to differences in the way the RSS feeds are implemented, the FoxForum Wiki RSS 1.0 feed is broken until the wiki web is able to support Web Services again. Unfortunately, the site suffered a hardware meltdown and is being rebuilt, but it will take a while… Meanwhile, subscribe to the RSS 2.0 feed for up-to-date wiki topics. There’s quite an entertaining mix of information and opinion, one of the best sites on the web for things FoxPro.
Everyone should have their disks defragmented regularly to prevent the slowdown of a badly fragmented disk. Here’s how:
http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/tasks/sch_defrag.htm