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Friday, June 04, 2004

XP SP2: Do's & Don'ts For Web Sites - "The software giant released a document, titled How to Make Your Web Site Work with Windows XP Service Pack 2, that spells out the code tweaks needed to deal with SP2."

It is likely that SP2 will break a lot of apps, both web and desktop, especially anything that runs over or interacts with the net in 'not recommended' fashion.

1:55:28 PM

InformationWeek > Worms And Viruses > New Worm Exploits Multiple Windows Vulnerabilities > June 3, 2004 - A new worm that may be double the trouble was spotted in the wild Thursday by several anti-virus vendors. Dubbed Plexus by Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs and Explet.a, by Symantec Corp., the worm uses multiple methods to infect PCs, including exploiting a pair of vulnerabilities in Windows.
9:38:03 AM

Sun's Long Road to Open-Source Solaris. Sun's announcement of plans to open-source Solaris are the latest public glimpse of a project that has been years in the making, and efforts are further along than Sun execs are letting on. [eWEEK Technology News]
9:21:43 AM

Web Porn Entices Far More Surfers Than Search-Study (Reuters). Reuters - Online porn sites get about three times more visits than the top Web search engines, including market leader Google Inc., a research firm said on Thursday. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

In case you were wondering...

9:16:07 AM

OJR: RSS Feeds Can Build Web Traffic, But.. [Scripting News]

If you're interested in why RSS is a big deal, check out this article. It does a good job of explaining the implication of RSS on the flow of information on the web.

9:13:42 AM

Significance at SCOTUSblog. How significant need a development be for one to be justified in self-labeling it as "very significant"? Well, Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog answered that question today, with the announcement that "Lyle Denniston, the Dean of Supreme Court reporters and a... [De Novo]
9:08:42 AM

Windows XP Bedevils Wi-Fi Users. Microsoft denies there's a problem, but Wi-Fi users report a maddening occurrence: the sudden, inexplicable loss of their wireless connections, even when XP says everything is hunky-dory. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]

I've seen this on my XP boxes. Interestingly enough it never happens with Linux or Win98 using the same WiFi hardware. On my XP laptop with the latest patches, the wireless will drop for no good reason, even when I'm sitting next to the AP. Just another fun MSFT problem.

8:56:59 AM