A marvelous rant from InfoWorld: Application development: Microsoft remains clueless about fixing IE. “Amazing. Article after blog after newsgroup message on why an increasing spike in the population graph is switching from Internet Explorer to Firefox or some other Web wanderer. All easily summarized like so (picture me shouting at the great Northwest): Because with Firefox we don’t need to worry about some nameless virgin’s virus experiment eating our hard disks like a pile of wet sushi. We just want to click on an icon and get a Web browser, not a menagerie of problems, exploits, downloadable patches, and reboots. For systems administrators, we can add user support calls at the end as well.”
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Finally, Microsoft patches IE for non-XP systems
IE SP1 patched today. Garrett Fitzgerald blogs “Microsoft today released a patch for the recent IFRAME exploit that was used on some ad-serving sites recently. If you use IE and haven’t updated to Windows XP SP2, you want to go to Windows Update and grab this patch ASAP. ”
In other words, if you are one of the 300 million not running Windows XP, this patch is for you.
Microsoft to offer blogging tool in MSN Spaces
MSN Spaces Blogging Tool Ready to Roll. Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley reports “MSN has been beta testing its blogging service in Japan since August. According to our sources, MSN will give MSN Spaces a red-carpet rollout later this week.”
It will be interesting to see Microsoft’s… innovations.
Update your Java runtimes to avoid security problems!
Sun: 1.9 million downloads of Java fix. InfoWorld: Top News reports “Sun Microsystems on Tuesday said there have been 1.9 million downloads of an upgraded version of J2SE to correct a possible security vulnerability in the JVM, although there have been no attacks reported based on the problem.”
Get those boxes patched!
Opinion: My workstation OS: Debian
KIVILCIM Hindistan opines that his favorite distribution is Debian: “My workstation OS: Debian.” An interesting and brief introduction to another distribution. Link via OSNews
Linux Servers: Over $1 Billion Sold, last quarter
InfoWorld reports “Linux server sales top $1 billion in Q3.” Pretty impressive for a free operating system! The article is filled with statistics, many of which are interesting. Linux appears to be shipping on nine percent of new servers sold.
VFP 9.0 to be released on the Ides of December!
Andrew Coates blogs that Ken Levy announced the scheduled release of VFP 9.0 for the 15th of December. Congratulations to the Fox Team!
Would you be quiet for ten million dollars?
“The antitrust settlement between Microsoft and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) announced earlier this month included a payment of $9.75 million to the CCIA’s president, according to a report published Wednesday.” Read the full article on the InfoWorld site.
XML-RPC
XML-RPC is the remote procedure call protocol using XML for transferring small amounts of data back and forth using XML as the dta encoding. XML-RPC preceded Web Services and WSDLs and all of the standards committees, and it Just Works. For a view of what blogging aggregators and directories use for updates, check out Robin Good’s article “Increase Visibility in Blog and RSS Directories: XML-RPC Pings.” Realize if you are using one of the commercial blogging tools like Blogger or Radio, it is already performing the XML-RPCs in the background.
Blogs as a bridge from source to Big Media
Joi Ito points to an article on “How News Travels on the Internet.” It’s an interesting view of the universe, but a bit self-centered, I suspect, and probably better titled “How News Travels through the Blogosphere.” For the few of us active participants, there are millions of folks going about their daily livves unaware of blog’s existence, save an odd reference in the news once in a while.