Latest Windows 2000 patch can lock system. Attacker could gain full control over vulnerable system [InfoWorld: Top News]
Archive | 2003
Mozilla tabbed browsing
I’ve mentioned before I love the tabbed browsing feature in Mozilla. I often skim a hundred article extracts in my News Aggregator, rigt-mouse-click and “Open in New Tab” all of those of interest. As a few seconds allows during the day, I peruse those articles, and right-mouse-click and create new tabs in turn, closing old or irrelevant ones along the way. At this point, I have eleven tabs opened.
The problem comes with the close box. That dratted little “X” in the upper right corner will irrevocably, irretrievably close everything. I usually just mean to close a tab, or minimize the window. But, no, *whoosh* and it’s all gone. Solutions I’d welcome:
- An “Are you sure (Y/N)?” messagebox. Normally, I detest these, but I’d welcome the option in this case.
- An option to restore all tabs when I next start Mozilla. In this version (1.3b), it can open the one last site opened, but not the contents of all the tabs
- Disabling the close button altogether, forcing me to select File|Close or Alt-F4 to close the main window
I regularly lose my work through my own clumsiness. It sure would be nice to have the computer help me help myself.
Yikes! WebDAV exploit used to hack U.S. Army IIS web servers
U.S. Army Web servers hacked. The incident occurred last week, when an undisclosed number of U.S. Army Web servers were hit in a so-called “0-day” exploit, one that takes advantage of a flaw nobody knew of and for which there was no available patch. [Computerworld News]
MySQL 4 Declared Production-Ready
Woo-hoo! With transaction support, replication, speed, scalability, and a low cost of entrance, this should give the other database manufacturers incentive to innovate. MySQL 4 Declared Production-Ready from Slashdot
Blogging Anniversary
Happy anniversary to my blog. I started a year ago today. I’ve only used Radio since January 1st, but the older blogs have been scraped off that web site and are archived here in month-to-month format, as the “Twiki Blog Archives 2002” link over to the right.
I’ve enjoyed this outlet for my writing, although I hope to start doing some more in-depth essays. On to Year Two!
Children of Dune, on the SciFi channel
Blogging is a bit light this week, with some work keeping me busy, and my evenings absorbed with the SciFi Channel’s “Children of Dune” mini-series. I really indulged my geek self this weekend and sat and watched the entire 3-part, six-hour original on Sunday, and I’ve caught the two hour episodes each night. It wraps up tonight.
Frank Herbert’s “Dune” is one of the finest pieces of science fiction written, with complex ecological, scientific, political, religious and philosophical threads running through it. It is one of my favorite science fiction novels. The follow-on books were never as bright and sharp and innovative as the original, but the entire bunch were well worth reading. It’s a good adventure plot, too. Cute chicks and lots of explosions, too. Fun for the whole family.
Wrox Press on the Rocks
Wrox hit the rocks as Glasshaus cracks. IT publishing community collapses, from The Register. Condolences to my fellow writers and authors.
Another Hot Visual FoxPro Community…
User 10,000 at PortalFox – Usuario Numero 10,000. It is our Pleasure to say that Didac Royo from Sant Cugat, Spain. It is our PortalFox Register User 10,000
Nos es grato informar que D’dac Royo de Sant Cugat, Espa–a, es el usuario 10.000 de PortalFox.
Thank you very much for all your support at 3 years of the creation of PortalFox Web Site
Muchas gracias a todos por permitirnos llegar a este nœmero a 3 (TRES) a–os de la creaci—n de PortalFox
PortalFox Team
Equipo de PortalFox [FoxCentral.Net]
The Code Red List continues to grow:
64.35.112.148 – 3 days after I have sent them notice. I’ll just block their address from the server.
150.183.190.4 – The Korea Institute of Science and Technology
64.136.144.62 – Dock.net, Camarillo, California
64.110.98.80 – Ichinet, Chittagong, BD
64.119.79.88 – TXKNet, Texarkana, Texas
66.255.146.107 – Connexsys, Atlantic Beach, Florida
Only six unique attacks today. What do other people do with these? Put the IP address on a permanent black list? Ignore them?
A new $400 server
So, we need a spare machine as a file and print server to let us straddle the transition of existing machines and make an on-disk backup of essential systems. (Current backup strategy is CD-Rs, ZIP disks, and duplicated spindles). The problem is that the machine with all of the hard disk space to store the backups is also the one getting the overhaul (including a DAT tape backup) so we can make the industrial-strength backups that we need. So, Steve and I hit the web, scouting OEM sites for a cheap, simple server. It needs a CPU, a NIC and a hard disk. Most everything else is optional.
So, here’s what we ended up with:
- Biostar M7VKQ w/Duron 1300 CPU, integrated sound, video and NIC, $96 at Tom’s Computer Warehouse
- Generic case with 300W power supply
- Generic CD-R (56x), floppy, 256 Mb RAM
- 100 Gb 7200 RPM Maxtor HD on sale at the local big box for $89
Total damages, with shipping $400. We’ll dig a 14″ VGA monitor, keyboard and mouse out of the cellar for the time needed to set it up, and then operate it remotely after that. Quite a good deal!