November 2005

PresentationZen has an article on using Simplicity to enhance your projected presentations. To illustrate, they compare slides typical of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. <p>Around… Read More »The Zen of JobsNotes

Microsoft is offering its Office 12 XML Format as an ECMA standard. Their FAQ answers several questions, but evades clear meaning. In order to make… Read More »Unanswered Questions about Office XML

In the news today – an IE vulnerability first published in May (still hasn’t been patched) allows remote take-over of a victim’s computer. SANS has… Read More »InfoCon Yellow – IE 0-day vulnerability

Inept, Indifferent, or Insidious? <p>Get rid of the rootkit, install a back door. Ed Felten notes in <a href=”http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=927″>his blog</a> that if you run the… Read More »Down the Rabbit Hole with Sony

Adam Bosworth elegantly describes how the KISS Principle accurately describes the successes of the Web and predicts future successes will follow the same patterns.

When will the fun ever stop? It appears the ‘Rootkit’ DRM on Sony-BMG CD’s includes some LGPL code from the LAME project and is in… Read More »Sony Rootkit Violates LGPL

Could Microsoft parlay its Windows monopoly and notoriously ineffective security to benefit its nascent media business? <p>In a brilliant move this weekend Microsoft <a href=”http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1886122,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614″>announced</a>… Read More »Microsoft vs. Sony-BMG

I’ve been running Firefox 1.5RC1 on my machine for a few days now – essential plugins are available for it (SessionSaver, AdBlock) even if current… Read More »Firefox is Ready

Keep an eye out for this one – a trojan that modifies DNS servers. They’re currently targeting PayPal accounts. Best to restrict outbound DNS at… Read More »DNS-modifying Trojan

Lots of stuff on OSX is tightly coupled – the .app bundle, for instance, is a great collection of almost everything related to an application… Read More »Organizing Updates