Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs [Slashdot] Steve Jobs claims reports are overblown.
I do wonder if there is any proof of those claims.
Archive | 2004
Fox Wiki surveying RSS aggregators
RSSAggregatorPrograms. A place to list and vaunt the better RSS aggregation programs available. [FoxProWiki]
Hit the sites and get your votes in, folks.
FM Radio -> MP3 on a schedule? Personal Audio Recording on your PC
Very cool. Years ago, I picked up a D-Link DSB-R100
– a USB-powered radio that’s an antenna and FM tuner with an audio jack
for output. Sadly, it doesn’t look like D-Link is selling them any
more, but they only cost $29 originally, so you might be able to pick
one up cheap second-hand (there’s one on eBay today). Originally, the
software it came with only ran on Windows 98, although D-Link is
offering drivers for other Windows versions now. However, Open Source
advocates got their hands on it, and provided software for Linux and for Mac OS X. Now, I can write a simple script to capture my favorite shows and listen to them at my leisure.
FoxForum Wiki RSS Feed
Steven Black has started self-publishing an RSS 2.0 Feed for the
FoxForum wiki, using a Web Connection routine that generates the RSS
on-demand, I think. It’s hard to tell, because he’s not including
the optional “lastBuildDate” in the channel header.
Steven and I made some different design decisions in how we formed the
feeds that are educational to look at. Steve stuffs nearly the entire
content into the feed. This certainly provides a richer stream, and
means he doesn’t have to serve the content twice. On the other hand, I
prefered to serve a “light” feed, that would encourage traffic to his
site, since I didn’t want to take away from any revenue-raising efforts
he has on the site. In addition, I can easily skim the headlines
of the site, and then navigate to the topics I’d like to read, and
often contribute.
UPDATE: Steve’s modified the feed with optional parameters so you can get shorter descriptions or none at all. Bravo!
WikiRssDocumentation. Here is how the wiki software determines what to include in the WikiRss feed. [FoxForum Wiki]
Mozilla exploit on Windows XP patch available
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]
Another blogger
Welcome Paul McNett to the blogging world!
New RSS feed for tedroche.com
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…
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.
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.
Welcome to the blogosphere, Alex!
Alex Feldstein joins the blogging community. Welcome!
IE still not safe
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.
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.