In my (very large) company, they're offshoring work and laying off American employees. The CIO wants to look good by cutting costs. By sending work to India, they don't even have to go through the effort of getting a visa.
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"File and Print services, Internet Information Services, and remote access (including connection sharing and telephony services)"
That refers to the built in services that come with XP. By using XP Home, you are only allowed a limited number of simultaneous connections to your IIS, ICS, and print server. That's what you get for using XP Home.
You should see the number of items in Bugzilla related to microsoft.com. For a long time, if you went to the MSKB, you got a bad stylesheet and items would look messed up. Finally MS went through and updated the logic so that IE and Mozilla got the same stylesheet. Tech Evangelism Bug (159494)
Part of the problem with ICQ is that your username is a number. Not only that, but a sequential number so a spammer can message a whole range of people with a simple broadcast. Nothing like having your boss sit next to you when your spam just pops up at you. A lot of people don't do IM whitelisting. Friends change screen names, or maybe you give it out to someone and you just don't have theirs yet.
Did you try the Center for Internet Security? They have a tool (or manual checklist if you print out the documentation) for Win2k, Linux, Solaris, WinNT, and HP-UX. You can use it to audit your policies as well as instructions on how to lock down your computer. There is also documentation from the NSA (upon which this is partly based) on how to lock down a box a lot better than the default policies.
I'm sure there are security bugs in Mozilla that haven't been made public yet. That was the problem with the onUnload(). It was known about for a long time, but not until it became public did it get fixed.
According to developer news site BetaNews.com, the latest beta of AIM 5.1 allows ICQ members screen names to be added to AIM buddy lists with the suffix "-ICQ". The site reported that users of the systems will not be able to send instant messages to each other until a new version of the ICQ client is also released.
Trillian is for Windows, and there is a free version.
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Not all blogs are the same. Here is a review of MetaFilter.com
"MetaFilter is one of the sometimes confusing class of sites known as 'weblogs.' In the original sense of the word, a weblog is a regularly updated collection of found links, commentaries, and personal reflections, maintained by a single person. For thousands of others, a weblog is simply an online diary - and while some have merit, many more (if not most) feature the "I hate my job," "my cat did the cutest thing," "here's my philosophy" essays which demonstrate that the locks on traditional diaries are there more to protect the public than the author's privacy. Fortunately, MetaFilter falls into the first category, with the distinction that contributions are not made by a single person - this blog has more than 12,000 contributors, and when it comes to scouring the Web, numbers matter."
Just because there are no publicly known security bugs, that doesn't mean Mozilla is security bug free. There could still be some undiscovered or some that are still marked as eyes only. Look how quickly they fixed it once it was public. Look how long it took before they went public. But that won't stop me from using Mozilla.
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In my (very large) company, they're offshoring work and laying off American employees. The CIO wants to look good by cutting costs. By sending work to India, they don't even have to go through the effort of getting a visa.
Safe Mode is used to avoid the rootkit.
There are several IE wrappers out there that provide a tabbed IE interface. This topic comes up a lot on the Phoenix forum of MozillaZine.
"File and Print services, Internet Information Services, and remote access (including connection sharing and telephony services)" That refers to the built in services that come with XP. By using XP Home, you are only allowed a limited number of simultaneous connections to your IIS, ICS, and print server. That's what you get for using XP Home.
You should see the number of items in Bugzilla related to microsoft.com. For a long time, if you went to the MSKB, you got a bad stylesheet and items would look messed up. Finally MS went through and updated the logic so that IE and Mozilla got the same stylesheet. Tech Evangelism Bug (159494)
If you don't feel like maintaining a userContent.css file, check out Adblock over on mozdev. Bannerblind also kicked ass, but it seems abandoned.
No, but the ISPs are supposed to query once a day or so and cache the results, so that the ROOT server isn't the DNS server that Everyone queries.
The support for SVG in Mozilla isn't very good yet.
Here is his blog which talks about it.
There has been a lengthy discussion on MozillaZine here
How about some links to what was so suspcious?
All he has to do is opt-out. Can't he afford to pay someone to do it for him?
Part of the problem with ICQ is that your username is a number. Not only that, but a sequential number so a spammer can message a whole range of people with a simple broadcast. Nothing like having your boss sit next to you when your spam just pops up at you. A lot of people don't do IM whitelisting. Friends change screen names, or maybe you give it out to someone and you just don't have theirs yet.
Did you try the Center for Internet Security? They have a tool (or manual checklist if you print out the documentation) for Win2k, Linux, Solaris, WinNT, and HP-UX. You can use it to audit your policies as well as instructions on how to lock down your computer. There is also documentation from the NSA (upon which this is partly based) on how to lock down a box a lot better than the default policies.
I'm sure there are security bugs in Mozilla that haven't been made public yet. That was the problem with the onUnload(). It was known about for a long time, but not until it became public did it get fixed.
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According to developer news site BetaNews.com, the latest beta of AIM 5.1 allows ICQ members screen names to be added to AIM buddy lists with the suffix "-ICQ". The site reported that users of the systems will not be able to send instant messages to each other until a new version of the ICQ client is also released.
Trillian lets you change the locally echoed names.
Trillian is for Windows, and there is a free version.
"MetaFilter is one of the sometimes confusing class of sites known as 'weblogs.' In the original sense of the word, a weblog is a regularly updated collection of found links, commentaries, and personal reflections, maintained by a single person. For thousands of others, a weblog is simply an online diary - and while some have merit, many more (if not most) feature the "I hate my job," "my cat did the cutest thing," "here's my philosophy" essays which demonstrate that the locks on traditional diaries are there more to protect the public than the author's privacy. Fortunately, MetaFilter falls into the first category, with the distinction that contributions are not made by a single person - this blog has more than 12,000 contributors, and when it comes to scouring the Web, numbers matter."
Right, but now non-"professional" spamming would be illegal and prosecutable. The Association wants their spam to have more attention paid to it.
There's a good chance they're talking about gathering statistics about the game itself (the Application) and not just any piece of software.
They stole a car and the OnStar from it was used to track down the criminals and you're complaining? Haven't you heard of LoJack?
Read more about Clean Flicks' covereage here on Slashdot.
Just because there are no publicly known security bugs, that doesn't mean Mozilla is security bug free. There could still be some undiscovered or some that are still marked as eyes only. Look how quickly they fixed it once it was public. Look how long it took before they went public. But that won't stop me from using Mozilla.