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Mozilla exploit on Windows XP patch available

By on July 9, 2004 in Home Page

This vulnerability affects all Mozilla-based browsers, but only on Widnows XP. Free small patch available from http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=154. No known exploits, yet. Get the patch!

Another browser exploit: this time it’s Mozilla.
Recent browser security bulletins have focused on Internet Explorer.
Now there is news of an exploit (with a patch available) for Mozilla
browsers running on Windows XP. [Ars Technica]

Mozilla moves to fix security vulnerability.
The Mozilla Foundation has urged users of its open-source Mozilla
Application Suite, Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client to
download a small patch to work around a security vulnerability
discovered Thursday. [InfoWorld: Top News]

New RSS feed for tedroche.com

By on July 8, 2004 in Home Page

I’ve created a new RSS 2.0 feed
for the tedroche.com website. This should be a low-volume feed, a
website change log, focused on the posting of conference materials,
sample code and new articles. If you’re not yet reading feeds with a
news aggregator, you can view it in HTML here.

Both the XML and HTML feeds are generated with the newly released version 1.0.1 of SoftwareGarden‘s ListGarden
product, running standalone on my Windows workstation. No installation,
no hassle, a perfect transient application. If you’re thinking about
generating an infrequent feed, and dread the hassle of making sure the
brackets balance and the syntax is right in vi or notepad, check this
product out.

What’s old is new again…

By on July 8, 2004 in Home Page

Jim Rapoza muses in his eWeek column:

I guess I have to admit it: Old, over-hyped technologies don’t go away;
they just come back in more refined and useful reincarnations. When you
think about it, pretty much every technology that was formerly laughed
at and tossed aside has returned as a tool that is used every day.

IE still not safe

By on July 7, 2004 in Home Page

Another Internet Explorer flaw found.
“A researcher shows how a hacker could bypass a Microsoft patch and
continue to exploit the software giant’s Web browser.” Article on CNET News.com:

Microsoft on Friday released a fix
that’s designed to protect computers from one of three flaws that,
together, could be used to digitally slip past a PC’s security through
the browser. This weekend, however, a security researcher identified
another flaw that could serve the same purpose and which isn’t fixed by
Microsoft’s patch.

Man.

Linux updates at tr.com

By on July 7, 2004 in Home Page

Upgraded the tedroche.com web server from Red Hat 8 to Fedora Core 2 using the yum updater, following the instructions here. Installed the vsFTPd ftp server so that I could move updates more quickly to the server. Reviewing security issues, found this page, which had some good stuff on it. In fact, the entire YoLinux.com seems rich with hundreds of links (page down on the home page) and dozens of tutorials. Reconfigured and updated WebMin, including adding in a 3rd party module for vsftpd. Man, the richness of material available on the web is amazing!

Can your app read email?

By on July 6, 2004 in Home Page

As an adjunct to JWZâs Law of Computer Envelopment (“every program
attempts to expand until it can read mail”), I declare that every
aggregator attempts to expand until it can read EBCDIC.

— Dive Into Mark’s blog entry on release of Universal Feed Parser 3.2

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