Steve Gillmor makes some interesting predictions
in his news that Adam Bosworth has moved from BEA to Google: Google’s
quiet in its pre-IPO phase, but Steve tells Microsoft: Be afraid.
Interesting news, too: ECMAScript has been standardized with XML
datatypes, effectively making it the XML scripting language. That
should make for some interesting applications. Thanks to The Doc Searls Weblog for the link.
It’s too tempting not to peek: the six feeds from NPR are links of the
format
http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?topicId=2
topicId=3 and so forth., You just gotta know, dontcha? It looks like
topicID=1 is for the real NPR news junkies – everything! Mmmmm, news
from the firehose!
Brian Livingston opines “Run, Don’t Walk, from Internet Explorer“, but asks “Can Your Site Survive FireFox?” with some good pointers on interoperability.
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]
Welcome Paul McNett to the blogging world!
Mac OS X Tiger Slide Show. OSNews points to some great screenshots on eWeek.
MacOSXHints points out a really useful reference for Mac OS X, Linux or Windows CygWin users, for that matter – the GNU Bash Reference.
Written by the authors of the shell, this book covers the concept of
the shell, its commands and variables in 180 pages. The book can be
purchased for $29.95 or downloaded in PDF from their website for free.
OSNews features an opinion piece on “Opinion: How to Master GNU/Linux in 20 steps” – no great secrets here, but some good, common sense advice.
Andrew MacNeill – AKSEL Solutions responded to my query about Office having a 3% upgrade rate: “Only 3% of Office Users Using Office 2003?. Ted
wanted to know where Jeff Riefman got his facts from on his complaints
about Office, etc. Here’s the quote right from Ballmer’s mouth, in
response to a question about long vs. small steps (back on April 7,
2004).
Read the entire article: here. By the way, Jeff’s original comments were in the Seattle Weekly“
Thanks, Andrew!
Microsoft Introduces Its New Command Shell (link from OSNews)
in the upcoming (2006?) Windows OS code-named Longhorn. Of course, if
you’d rather not wait two years, take a look at one of the many shells
already available for Windows, like CygWin.