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Slashback: Switchover, EULA, Perspectives
It's the little things. Time for another cumulative patch for IE, it seems. (Mozilla may have its share of security problems, but at least there's a new build broken in unique and exciting ways more frequently :)). Logica writes with a snippet from this ZDNet article, which reads: "Microsoft released a collection of software fixes Monday to plug six security problems in its Internet Explorer browser, including one that could be exploited to take over a victim's computer."
"Users are urged to download the latest patch."
What happened to the tar-and-feather clause? djmurdoch writes "Back in January, Borland promised to come up with new EULAs without some objectionable terms. They've just posted the new EULAs. Gone are the anti-competitive product clause, the right to audit, and the requirement to give up a jury trial. They still have required registration, and you can't use a 2nd hand copy. They've added a requirement that it be licensed to one named user; you need extra licenses to share a copy. Not perfect, but a big improvement."
Keep in the loop as consolidation continues. craig writes: "AT&T Broadband has now posted instructions for their cable modem users to change their e-mail addresses from @mediaone.net to @attbi.com. The instructions have been posted here. The instructions seem to work, and my upgrade has been smooth.
The instructions have been posted on the web, but it looks like they have not been e-mailed to current AT&T Broadband subscribers. It is probably a good idea to follow these instructions before they are mailed to the masses, because chances are, this is migration is going to keep AT&T Broadband customer support very busy. The old @mediaone.net addresses will stop working on March 15, as was mentioned in this previous posting on Slashdot."
And although it's been said many times, many ways ... LiquidPC writes: "Apple's Ernest Prabhakar is reporting that BSD is now 3 times as popular on the desktop as Linux, largely thanks to MacOSX, of course. He also commented that Microsoft now has Office running on a Berkeley UNIX."
In next week's news:
Time for another cumulative patch for IE, this time covering 6 security holes found during the last week, including this one. Using that is like having "Come and get me, 'leet script kiddies" stamped on your forehead.
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OS X does not come with bash by default.
OS X does not have a remote login service enabled by default. You have to explicitly turn it on.
No OS X versions since 10.0.1 enable telnet. When you check the "Allow Remote Login" box, you enable ssh.
While Applescript could be used for an attach, so could basically any other scripting language. VBScript? Perl? /bin/sh? Yup. So what's the big deal?
"...a bunch of other remote technologies" being as descriptive as it is, I can only discuss those I can think of. AppleEvents are not allowed from remote machines unless explicitly turned on by the user. This ties back into the AppleScript thing.
Basically, the above post is FUD.
Apple is not, and never has been a good company(atleast not since Woz left). I love how every bodyd thinks they are against the "big guy" and pro "little guy" but have done every dirty trick in the book to keep Aqua themes of every other platform. I'm not a PC zealot, but geeze get a grip. (and I would say that apple did not popularize or even ground break with PDA's having used own during the start...they sucked, and once they got OK...heading toward good.....jobs cancled them....soundslike what he did with..oh yeah the Mac clones....and the Lisa....oh my)
Am I just not using it correctly? .NET.
Fatal mistake. You actually care what it looks like. Word is designed for slopping some stuff in and having it look halfway decent. But do not examine it closely.
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