I still find this very hard to conceive. WTF do users have to SEARCH their own data anyway? What did people do before MS fucked it up for them?
Well, we used to file away FILES in filing cabinets that had drawers all marked - and inside each drawer was as a folder arranged however the user wantted it! Everything was marked as to what it was, and arranged logically.
None of the ~%user%/fredblo~2/setting~1/my docu~2/cache~3/ bollocks (OK, I donwloaded it.... where did it go?????)
I mean. What a load of bollocks in having to do this on a supposedly 'advanced' OS that causes the bloody problem in the first place.
Update rollup 905915 includes the cumulative security fixes that are documented in security bulletin MS05-054. The update rollup also includes hotfixes for Microsoft Internet Explorer that were released after the release of security bulletin MS04-004 and of security bulletin MS04-038.
If update rollup 873377, update rollup 889669, or an Internet Explorer hotfix that was released after security bulletin MS04-038 are not installed, and if you want to install the hotfixes that are included in update rollup 905915, you must follow the instructions in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 897225. Otherwise, all Internet Explorer hotfixes that you have installed are removed.
897225 How to install hotfixes that are included in cumulative security updates for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1
The update rollup 905915 installer verifies whether one or more of the files that are being updated on the computer have previously been updated by an Internet Explorer hotfix. However, the installer detects only hotfixes that were released after security bulletin MS04-038, after update rollup 873377, or after update rollup 889669. Therefore, if you have installed update rollup 873377, update rollup 889669, or an Internet Explorer hotfix that was released after update rollup 873377, the update rollup 905915 installer automatically installs the hotfixes and the security updates that are included in update rollup 905915.
... the big question is why haven't people patched?
Well I will tell you. They don't as Microsoft NEVER EVER release just a `fix' patch. It is bundled with other patches that break lots of things. So people either:
a) Can't as it fubars their system.
or
b) Too scared what it breaks. [I still get very nervy at work when applying these patches to servers - you never know - nor guarantee - if it will ever come back up again or just get BSOD.]
It is about time MS started to just issue a patch to fix ONE of their flaws instead of loading it with other `upgrades' the users doesn't want or need - or even just do 'one at a time'.
Burton Smith took a two week training course in several stages for this:
1. The mouse - what is it?
2. How to use the mouse.
3. Learn to click [OK] without thinking.
4. Timing - measure your bogomips with the mouse hourglass icon spinning after you click [Cancel]
5. How to reboot when the mouse hourglass icon is still there after 45 minutes.
I think MS is pretty shit scared when you look at the last few years of what they are doing. They are shit scared, and I also suspect they can't beat FOSS/OSS so are now starting the onslaught to get it removed via political means (as we start to see here).
Is to not have the[a[ web browser interfaced with kernel/operating system. A stand-alone application browser (a la K-Meleon, Firefox, etc.) will immediately stop the devs having to worry about other security overheads (reference IE that is built in (badly) to handle all sorts of stuff that it shouldn't even touch).
... writing 'secure' applications is great - but it is like fitting 'secure' locks to all your doors when the windows are left open all the time - sort of oxymoronish. A secure application needs to first have a secure base.
If you like books about maths (as we say here in the UK - mathematics is PLURAL), check out 'The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers' by David Wells - ISBN 0-14-008029-5.
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Exactly my point. MS introduced this moronic concept of 'invisibility' to users.
I still find this very hard to conceive. WTF do users have to SEARCH their own data anyway? What did people do before MS fucked it up for them?
Well, we used to file away FILES in filing cabinets that had drawers all marked - and inside each drawer was as a folder arranged however the user wantted it! Everything was marked as to what it was, and arranged logically.
None of the ~%user%/fredblo~2/setting~1/my docu~2/cache~3/ bollocks (OK, I donwloaded it.... where did it go?????)
I mean. What a load of bollocks in having to do this on a supposedly 'advanced' OS that causes the bloody problem in the first place.
'Flying chairs', coded by Steve 'monkey' Balmer.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905915
WTF?
As I said, no wonder people don't apply patches.
Hotfixes do not address one issue - they bundle 'other fixes' into them as well, all usually undocumented.
... the big question is why haven't people patched?
Well I will tell you. They don't as Microsoft NEVER EVER release just a `fix' patch. It is bundled with other patches that break lots of things. So people either:
a) Can't as it fubars their system.
or
b) Too scared what it breaks. [I still get very nervy at work when applying these patches to servers - you never know - nor guarantee - if it will ever come back up again or just get BSOD.]
It is about time MS started to just issue a patch to fix ONE of their flaws instead of loading it with other `upgrades' the users doesn't want or need - or even just do 'one at a time'.
Jeeves he says to use Google too!
They already have this technology - so another reason not to sunbath naked on your roof.
No, it would have been "chappie" in that case.
Google already have clustering on Linux. Why would they need to get help to do it?
Burton Smith took a two week training course in several stages for this:
1. The mouse - what is it? 2. How to use the mouse. 3. Learn to click [OK] without thinking. 4. Timing - measure your bogomips with the mouse hourglass icon spinning after you click [Cancel] 5. How to reboot when the mouse hourglass icon is still there after 45 minutes.
The Apollo 17 landing film is truly great to watch; the excitement in the astronauts voices shows what it really means for man to land on the moon:
Landing at Taurus-Littrow
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Yes, MS are very concerned about security and are FIXING IT!
or the fact that the UN happily agreed to it?
If I was a UN bod and was funded by MS bribes, I would be happy too. Pretty obvious what happened here.
I think MS is pretty shit scared when you look at the last few years of what they are doing. They are shit scared, and I also suspect they can't beat FOSS/OSS so are now starting the onslaught to get it removed via political means (as we start to see here).
When talking to dim people struggling with a problem
Geez, you don't need to be Alfred Einstein to work that out!"
Is to not have the[a[ web browser interfaced with kernel/operating system. A stand-alone application browser (a la K-Meleon, Firefox, etc.) will immediately stop the devs having to worry about other security overheads (reference IE that is built in (badly) to handle all sorts of stuff that it shouldn't even touch).
... writing 'secure' applications is great - but it is like fitting 'secure' locks to all your doors when the windows are left open all the time - sort of oxymoronish. A secure application needs to first have a secure base.
That is why a lot of false positives could happen if your name is CLINT (no offense meant to parent poster).
Is that his picture - or the reporters mug shot?
If so, then my first question would be:
"Well Andrew, why haven't you got a hackers unruly beard then? Are you really a hacker?".
...OncoMouse will get a free trip to Disney world, new push bikes, RC helipcopter and the like for Xmas...
If you like books about maths (as we say here in the UK - mathematics is PLURAL), check out 'The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers' by David Wells - ISBN 0-14-008029-5.
"See! We don't produce crap code that BSOD all the time - it is all these 'root-kits' that lusers, hmm, I mean Customers install!"
There yer go. Nothing wrong with MS products at all.
"So where is the US campaign?"
MS are backing that buying the politicians 'campaign'.