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Freitag, 31. Januar 2003 |
Trustworthy Computing: Patched to the point of switching. The recent 'SQL Slammer' worm points the way toward the Mac, security [Insanely Great Mac]
"Microsoft was completely hosed (from Slammer). It took them two days to get out from under it," said Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security, a network monitoring service provider. "It's as hypocritical as you can get."
In the meantime, Schneier said he was thinking of switching from Windows to the Macintosh platform because of all the security issues. "My wife has a Mac and she doesn't worry about viruses, trojans, leaks..., " he said.
Need anything more for your decision? It's Schneier after all!
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Blogs open doors for developers. Business software developers are learning what gamemakers have long known: Using Web logs and online tools to gather feedback can help strengthen products--and pull in customers. By David Becker, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com]
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Donnerstag, 30. Januar 2003 |
Microsoft agrees to Passport changes. The software company's deal with the European Union over privacy protection in .Net Passport should give people worldwide more control over how their personal information is shared. By Matt Loney, Special to CNET News.com. [CNET News.com]
10:03:53 PM
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Sneaky Toolbar Hijacks Browsers. Internet users are mystified by a tricky browser add-on that installs itself without permission and defies attempts to remove it. Some are calling the program the most insidious thing on the Web. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]Who told you to have ActiveX with MSIE without wearing a certificate?
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Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2003 |
Security company breaks with CERT over disclosure. The dispute highlights concerns about how the government-sponsored Internet security reporting center passes vulnerability information to third parties. [Computerworld News]
Stupid, stupid, stupid ... disclose does not mean you have to publish a working exploit! If you do not disclose a vulnerability, people can only find out about it the hard way!
11:24:34 PM
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Internet Worm Unearths New Holes [SecurityFocus]
"While similar in many ways to earlier worms, Sapphire raises new questions about the pace at which companies and government agencies are linking critical networks and computer systems to the Internet, often without a clear understanding of the risks. "
9:05:22 PM
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The Case of Slammer and the Broken Patching Process. Though it could have been worse, the Slammer worm that crippled networks last weekend at a pace of 200,000 to 300,000 attacks per hour really shouldn't have been as big or as widespread as it was. Microsoft had discovered the vulnerability in its SQL Server 2000 software back in July and had issued a patch for it. [osOpinion]
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9-Digit 'Social' Overused as ID. For many American companies and universities, it's common practice to use Social Security numbers as unique identifiers. But growing concerns over identity theft are pressuring state legislators to limit the practice. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
12:05:43 PM
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Symantec's 'Submit a Deal' Flawed. Software giant Symantec's failure to secure a portion of its corporate site leaves an online database of acquisitions proposals exposed, including one from longtime industry critic Vmyths. By Brian McWilliams. [Wired News]
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Dienstag, 28. Januar 2003 |
MS struggles to contain the Slammer worm [The Register]
"Update: HELP NEEDED: If you have servers that are nonessential, please shut down the MSSQLSERVER service as well as SQL Agent (so SQL doesn't restart) so that we can eliminate nonessential noise/traffic on the network. Your urgent assistance with this will be very helpful. "
ROFL
11:25:09 PM
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...noisy bastards, ... nuff said!
9:00:53 PM
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NetNewsWire 1.0b14. NetNewsWire 1.0b14 adds a new command to the Services menu: Subscribe in NetNewsWire.
When you select text—the URL in the address bar of Safari or Chimera, for instance—you can choose the Subscribe in NetNewsWire command to subscribe to the site associated with that URL.
NetNewsWire of course uses RSS auto-discovery to find the RSS feed, if the selected URL doesn’t point to the RSS feed.
Other changes in this release include support for Blosxom sub-sub-folders, sub-sub-sub-folders, and so on.
More details are on the change notes page. [inessential.com]
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Montag, 27. Januar 2003 |
"In the $160 billion PC market, a 3% market share should be enough to fund Apple's research-and-development push."
8:44:29 PM
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Targeted advertising
It's what we have been promised, uh? Advertising tailored to our profiles. Right. But what about context? Some ads just don't fit in some pages. This is what I just got on Wired. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] This is just too funny! Thanks Paolo!
12:34:59 PM
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Virus Hits ATM's and Computers Across Globe. The vulnerability of the internet was underlined this weekend as the most serious computer virus attack for 18 months led to a sharp slowdown in network traffic. By Iht.com. [New York Times: Technology]
"The lesson here once again is that companies are taking a risk by not installing patches," said Mr Gollotto.
Do they have a clue? Why on earth would SQL Server ports in any way be accessible from the public Internet? How can anyone be so stupid to run a box like this without the protection of a very decent firewall? I'm amazed by the sheer stupidity and the lack of knowhow by Windows-endorsing folks!
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'Slammer' Feared to Strike Again. Security experts feel the global worming attack that fried much of the Internet this weekend may not be done wreaking havoc. They say unpatched systems may get slammed again at the start of the workweek. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
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Rise of the Uber-Browser. Now that I've started using NetNewsWire to read blogs, I find it frustrating to be constantly switching back and forth between NetNewsWire and Safari. This led me to wonder: should RSS capabilities and browsing capabilities be merged into a single "uber-browser" application?
Do news readers like NetNewsWire and Feedreader contain functionality that should be absorbed into browser applications like Safari, Chimera or OmniWeb? Or is the opposite true? Should some minimal browser functionality be incorporated into NetNewsWire?
OmniWeb already contains a very nice bookmark scheduling/updating mechanism. Imagine if you could bookmark an RSS XML file and have a browser transparently present it as a folder in your bookmarks, complete with an unread count and child items that represent blog entries. This mechanism would mesh nicely with bookmark scheduling/updating schemes that exist already in browsers.
Or consider the other direction. NetNewsWire could instead embed a rich HTML control and manage the display of blog entries for you. One idea I had about blog entries in NetNewsWire is the idea of applying user stylesheets to blog posts so that you could format the blog entries according to your own chosen templates. In effect you could pick the "blog theme" to apply to the HTML snippet pulled out of the RSS file.
Another idea along those lines would be allowing authors to somehow specify links to author stylesheets that could be loaded and applied when a snippet is read from HTML embedded inside RSS. Then the author's look could be preserved without having to go back to the original blog Web page.
Yet another irritation is how difficult it is to subscribe to feeds. I'd like to be able to click on an RSS file link in a browser and have it automatically pass that off to my news application. One click should be all it takes to get me subscribed, whether that click happens in a mail app, a Web page, or inside NetNewsWire itself. A protocol handler would work for this. I think of this as being somewhat similar to the "view-source:" protocol supported in many browsers, i.e., you could just say "rss:original-url" or "feed:original-url" and have the appropriate application configured to handle feed subscriptions.
Tabbed browsing has a role here as well. The same person who voraciously devours news feeds is the same kind of person who loves being bombarded with lots of information, and tabs provide one with a means of efficiently handling a lot of information. This makes Chimera's ability to open URLs sent from other applications in tabs very cool, and might help obviate the need for an application like NetNewsWire to build tabs into its own display.
I've heard a lot of people state that RSS and news aggregators are for "geeks" and "blogging enthusiasts," but I simply don't believe that to be true. It should be possible to make an application for managing a large amount of information flow that is accessible to mainstream users. Browsers are trying to make information easier to manage with smarter bookmarking systems and page management capabilities (tabs), and news readers are emerging that (in effect) push new information to you in as it's posted and allow you to switch rapidly between different information sets as well.
There is also an eerie parallel one can draw on the editing side between conventional Web page editors and the need for specialized blog editor applications. Mozilla has MozBlog for this purpose. Should personal blog management become the domain of a specialized application, a sort of uber-editor that can handle HTML editing/publishing but also blog management/publishing, or should it remain as a Web application like Movable Type that you use a browser to access? [Surfin' Safari]
7:50:10 AM
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Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft flaws. The Sapphire worm that hit servers running Microsoft SQL is a wake-up call for anyone who thought the Internet had become a safer place following increased attention by corporate and government leaders. [CNET News.com]
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Sonntag, 26. Januar 2003 |
This is like really cool! I guess I'll be first in line to actually pay for NetNewsWire when it goes commercial!
3:45:22 PM
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Spam Filtering with gzip. While many people see gzip as a compression tool, it also makes a credible spam filter. Here's how. [kuro5hin.org]
First I thought this to be a joke, but reading on ... funny, it works!
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Testing NetNewsWire
Now that categories are supported (all my weblogs are actually categories blogs) I can give a try to Brent's NetNewsWire.
Let's simply say that if this post is going to appear on my weblog, this little application is totally cool!
PS: yes, it is totally cool. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]
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10:11:41 AM
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Editing Radio Weblogs. This page describes how to configure NetNewsWire and Radio UserLand so you can use NetNewsWire to edit your Radio weblog. (There will be similar pages for other weblog systems too, of course.) [ranchero.com]
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Samstag, 25. Januar 2003 |
CA-2003-04: MS-SQL Server Worm [CERT/CC]
CERT® Advisory CA-2003-04 MS-SQL Server Worm
Original release date: January 25, 2003
Source: CERT/CC
A complete revision history can be found at the end of this file.
Systems Affected
* Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Overview
The CERT/CC has received reports of self-propagating malicious code that exploits multiple vulnerabilities in the Resolution Service of Microsoft SQL Server 2000. The propagation of this worm has caused varied levels of network degradation across the Internet, in addition to the compromise of vulnerable machines.
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6:57:19 PM
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Here's a chart from the Internet Traffic Report with global packet loss for the past 24 hours.
I first noticed it last night connecting to Yahoo and KBS's Korean news sites around 10:30PM Pacific. But I didn't notice any problems with local sites so I thought it was just a regional issue. Surprise. [lawrence's notebook]
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Starting at 11:30pm CST, systems from all over the internet began
sending traffic (apparently) to random destinations. At 5:30am CST,
traffic rates are dropping as backbone operators and ISPs filter UDP
traffic to port 1434 (MS-SQL Monitor).
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MS SQL Server Worm Wreaking Havoc. defile writes "Since about midnight EST almost every host on the internet has been receiving a 376 byte UDP payload on port ms-sql-m (1434) from a random infected server. [Slashdot]
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Fuck M$, fuck M$ SQL Server and fuck Windoze admin idiots! I'll try to get more info. It seems that stupid programming of SQL Server leveraged by braindead admins made the DDos attack possible. It's dying off now!
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Freitag, 24. Januar 2003 |
From time to time I just seem to get an RSS feed from osOpinion that includes all their stories since Adam&Eve and Radio thinks they are all (all!) new. If you look at the snipped from the event log (pages after pages from osOpinion to delete):
| Event | What happened | Time | Secs |
| Hourly scan | 78 channels read, 1076 new stories. | 8:15:35 PM | 455.003 |
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Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2003 |
NetNewsWire Rocks!. I have spent today playing with a piece of software called NetNewsWire. It's simply wonderful. I had used FeedReader before on Windows, but now I have a fantastic Cocoa application that can handle aggregated news feeds. And it's zippy too! Kudos to Ranchero Software.
NetNewsWire even displays HTML somewhat (if you include it in your RSS feed). I wonder what it uses to do that (the old HTML display component or its own home-brewed component).
Regardless, I smell a future customer... :)
NetNewsWire + Safari WebKit = Ass-Kicking Goodness.
I wonder who I have to sleep with to get into the default subscription list. Maybe I need to stop blogging about the technical guts of Safari and start seeding my blog with catch phrases like "Kate Bosworth Naked." [Surfin' Safari]
12:28:44 AM
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"Mitnick hopes to replace the laptops with a 17-inch Apple PowerBook."
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Dienstag, 21. Januar 2003 |
Segway Banned In San Francisco. bhsurfer writes "The city of San Francisco has banned the Segway [CNN.com] from it's sidewalks before they've even arrived. Apparently Santa Cruz, Oakland and ... [Slashdot]... there goes your business plan ...
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South African Gov't Declared An Open Source Zone. fungai writes "The Business Day reports that the South African government has decided to adopt open source software and develop support programs with local ... [Slashdot]
I wish there would be more decisions like this throughout economically weaker countries, and not only for IT. If it is possible: do it yourself. Learn the skills and come up with solutions that are viable for you.
Imagine having to deploy IT infrastructure throughout Africa: Windows ... way too expensive ... Mac OS X ... every few week megabites of updates?
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NetNewsWire. I get really annoying when I find a new toy. I tell every person I know about it, I construct... [Rands in Repose] ... not the only one ...
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Montag, 20. Januar 2003 |
If this is true (as it appears to be), then it's totally sick! [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]... sick? ... sick!
There are countless sites that mimick Apple tab-on-top look or even the Apple Aqua UI look. Imagine Apple would start to enforce IP on that ...
How can they patent this? Can anyone remember the product NetObjects Fusion in its very first incarnation. It already had this navigation-on-top and navigation-on-the-side look, that became typical for site created with NetObjects. You could tell from miles away when a site was a NetObjects site! Do these idiots work through NetObjects customer files now?
8:28:06 PM
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While Mozilla the way I tuned it still works faster for most of the sites that I visit, I think Safari has the better visual quality. It not just the oure rendering, it's the way things look (can't reallly be more specific). A lot of pages just look a bit rought in Mozilla and way more polished in Safari.
Connection handling still seems to be better in Mozilla, but I see no reason why Safari could not catch up in this area!
The same goes for tabbed browsing. Safari could introduce tabbed browsing (but that requires pretts nifty connection handling because you'll end up loading more than one page simultaneously). It is doable, but they need to do it! I simply see no success for Safari without support for tabbed browsing or similar functionality!
The best thing Mozilla could do? Provide a reasonable pref panel for the hidden prefs that allow a lot of useful tuning! As long as only black magic can make Mozilla perform it will loose to Safari!
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Sonntag, 19. Januar 2003 |
Should not Philips be fined for inventing the CD without copy protection? They made the whole thing possible after all  !
I remember when we were forced to switch to CDs because we could no longer get the our stuff on vinyl records. A lot of the sound at that age was mixed/mastered terribly because a lot of sound people did not yet know how to master to a CD as opposed to a vinyl record (totally different sound compression behaviour). We just hated it!
I guess now this is the revenge! Ever heard of that problem during the vinyl ages?
So, coming back to the question of who should be held responsible: the music industry! It their own home-grown problem after all!
10:34:47 PM
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Road builders and maintainers should pay robbery victims. According to this news report, ISPs should pay record companies for music swapping. This logic is very valid, in our wise opinion. However, as we are more concerned with the more serious crimes that impact some lives more than music swapping on the Internet, that of the issue of robbery, we propose a concrete measure to help robbery victims and to discourage more robberies. We propose to have road builders and maintainers paying robbery victims for their losses. [kuro5hin.org]
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Samstag, 18. Januar 2003 |
Il monastero di Claro ero bello e vale una visita!
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Microsoft's privacy officer resigns. The company says its corporate privacy officer has decided to leave, and Microsoft will search for a new person to head the privacy component of its Trustworthy Computing initiative. [CNET News.com]... guess that poor sod could not sleep anymore ...
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Freitag, 17. Januar 2003 |
Put the following pref line into your user.js into the Moz profile and that thing flies!
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
Here's my user.pref, tuned to a speedy (low latency) ADSL line:
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 36);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 12);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 6);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 3);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", true);
user_pref("network.proxy.type", 0);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
7:53:50 PM
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Company News. McDONALD'S PLANS TO CLOSE MORE RESTAURANTS McDonald's said yesterday that it would close more underperforming restaurants in the United States and Japan. It did not say how many. The company also said it would retain its $1 Value Menu, which has increased business but decreased profit margins. James J. Cantalupo, the new chief executive, said that drastic changes at the company were not necessary but that small modifications like keeping restrooms cleaner and providing customer service were. Mr. Cantalupo also said that McDonald's would not provide quarterly earnings forecasts in 2003, but would focus on the long-term goal of rebuilding its business. In December, the company warned that it would not meet earnings expectations and would close 175 lagging restaurants. Sherri Day (NYT) [New York Times: Business]
Best piece of news in years: McDonald's is shrinking! That will be a tremendous progress in public health!
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Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2003 |
Safari Response: news.com. Mike Shaver and Chris Blizzard respond to Paul Festa's anti-Mozilla ranting on news.com. Just goes to show you, boys, you have to be careful what you say in your blogs, since you never know when someone is going to come along and quote you out of context in order to satisfy some obsessive need to bash Mozilla.
[Surfin' Safari] ... keep fighting, 'cos this will keep you away from coding and fixing bugs ...
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Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2003 |
This release fixes a crashing bug introduced in the previous beta. [ranchero.com]
CoolTool is coming anlong good!
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Dienstag, 14. Januar 2003 |
Study: Pop-ups the ads we love to hate. A new study suggests that pop-up ads are the Internet equivalent of supermarket tabloids: Everyone claims to hate them, but somebody keeps reading. [CNET News.com]Maybe Pete Townshend reads pop-ups? ... just for research ...
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Montag, 13. Januar 2003 |
After several days of extensive usage I still have to admit it just rules!
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sverrehu writes "The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has released a well-written document that is a must read for every web programmer out there. ... [Slashdot]
READ!
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Sonntag, 12. Januar 2003 |
We had an outage on scripting.com for 2-3 hours this morning, which also knocked out DNS for some of the other machines on the LAN at Exodus. Everything's back up at 12:20PM Pacific. In the meantime the Tampa Bay Bucaneers are killing our beloved San Francisco Forty-Niners. [Scripting News]
... blocking a lot of weblogs, disabling Radio shortcuts etc. etc. ...
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weblogs and xmlstorage work intermittently -- your mileage may vary!
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scripting still unreachable from my pipe!
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Now upstreaming goes down for me! Do we see some massive failure from UserLand?
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system.verbs.builtins.webBrowser.supportedBrowsers changed on Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:38:39 GMT: Added support for Safari on MacOS X. [Radio.root Updates]
Update Radio.root and there will be no additional changes necessary! All done, all fixed, thanks!
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Samstag, 11. Januar 2003 |
The answer to all my grief is here. Thanks to Andy Fragen!
So update Radio.root and do apply that and it will make things work!
BTW I guess the order in the script is significant, 'cos as long as MSIE is running Radio will use that one, and if MOZZ is running it will use that one and only when there's nothing else it will fall back on Safari (if I add 'sfri' at the end). I guess as soon as Safari will be out of beta it will hop to the forn in my Radio installation!
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Using the hint in http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$21758#21811 I can get it working, but if ever I start Radio without having Safari running it will set the entry back to 'MSIE' and no longer recognize a running Safari instance!
Can't be the solution. ... or what exactly am I missing?
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I tried it with the new Safari beta v51 with no success. I have the impression though, it did work (no test!) before I installed the new version!
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system.verbs.builtins.sys.appIsRunning changed on Sat, 11 Jan 2003 01:50:59 GMT: Added support for Safari on MacOS X. [Radio.root Updates]
Great!
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Freitag, 10. Januar 2003 |
It's well worth your time!
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no-blog
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Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2003 |
Paolo: "Introducing a new browser after 5 years is a pretty bold move from Apple." [Scripting News]
"The most missed feature, coming from Mozilla, is tabbed browsing. This is something Apple should really consider incorporating. I know that tabbed browsing is used be a very small Mozilla/Netscape users minority, but once you are a tabbed browsing addict it's hard to stop. So wherever you are, whatever you are doing, post on your weblog a request for tabbed browsing, they must hear us."
I think Paolo is more than right on the tabs ... I'd switch from Mozilla 1.2.1 if it weren't for tabs ...
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I'll blog-off now. This was (for me) a very successful hardcore test for Radio and its backends. I guess I'll start getting really involved with this technology.
Radio is 1A!
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Dienstag, 7. Januar 2003 |
Fink works just fine with the public beta X11 release
with some caveats. Please read the newly added Apple X11 section of the Fink X11 Documentation for details. [Fink Project News]
11:32:16 PM
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Apple’s Mac OS X Adoption Soars With More Than 5 Million Users and 5,000 Native Applications [Apple Press Releases]
... 'cos Apples do no longer boot OS9 ...
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I'm exploring Archipelago ... still looking for a tools that allow me to edit Radio blog post outside the browser. To be honest, Safari makes things easier ... faster!
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Now when I use Safari with Radio, things get really fast. It seems to have a very good rendering engine for tables!
COOL!
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I have to admit, things were still working. I had trouble upstreaming my pages (though they are not very big and I run on a 1MB connection), radiocomment blocked everything at one point in time (I switched to radiocomments2 -- cos there were no commented items).
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- 1440x900
- backlit keyboard!
- ambient light senor
- 6.8 lbs.
- aluminium, no paint
- DDR Ram
- bluetooth
- 802.11g: AirportExtreme 54Mbit
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thin, thinner ... 17inch PowerBook
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17inch PowerBook!
7:39:09 PM
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Steve starts talking about TiBook ...
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Standing ovation: free copy of Keynote for attendees!
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Keynote presentation app!
Every 2002 keynote was done using keynote betas!
7:19:21 PM
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Do a Google search for safari browser!
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Safari:
- Speed: fastest browser on Mac
- Innovate: Google integration, new trackback
- Booksmarks: ease of use
- GUI: MINIMAL!
Surprise: KHTML-based. Beta today!
7:06:19 PM
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Something new THE BROWSER!
7:05:23 PM
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Ok sorry iHub is called iLife (and now it's coming)
iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie remain free!
THANKS!
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I'm up to 60secs. for upstreaming!
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Gimme hardware!
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Looks like a full revision of the iHub (just iTunes4 missing for now)!
... wondering what kind of hardware box Steve uses for the demo ... fast!
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iDVD3:
... integrated ... and lots of touchups.
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There work no comments, so I switched to radiocomments2 ... works better/faster!
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I'm just waiting for the ... and all this for just $49.99
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iMovie3:
new metal brush interface,
precise audio.
Nice job with still photographs.
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iPhoto2:
integration with iTunes
... archive to CD/DVD!
One button enhance (has been hidden in iPhoto 1.1) and retouch brush.
No mention of a charge for it (yet)!
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Had to kill comments 'cos radiocomments seems just to come to a standstill!
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No more 9!
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I don't want to see stripped down software ... I want new hardware.
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Final Cut Pro #1 selling video edit app ...
New product: Final Cut Express (like Final Cut Lite ...)
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Pro Tools audio demo ...
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Usual 3rd party product tour ...
6:26:05 PM
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Apple shipped an iPod every minute since they came out!
Cool Jacket from Burton iPod-enabled!
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Usual talk about stores, iCal, iSync, .mac, iPod etc.
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Talking about switchers ...
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It will be the biggest MPEG-4 even ever! [I'd say so far]
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2 MW worth of stuff ...
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Am I the only one, but that music is just awful!
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Wild guess: memory leak!
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PLEASE DO NOT OVERLOAD OUR SERVERS.
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Typically I see tenth of a second response times for the weblogs ping ...
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 Louis Cipher wonders if Weblogs.Com will survive the blogging frenzy during the Steve Jobs keynote at MacWorld in San Francisco at 9AM today. It did last year. But the network is bigger this year. I guess the answer is we'll find out later today. [Scripting News]
... why on earth does Dave Winer wear this kind of hat for MWSF'03 ...
... what am I missing here?
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The financial firm says that the new product pipeline looks "skimpy" and that the company's Power Macs and other products "are becoming stale or remain too expensive." [CNET News.com]
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
Ripple \Rip"ple\, n.
1. The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running
water; little curling waves.
2. A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by
little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.
3. (physics) a small wave on the surface of water or other
liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but
surface tension.
4. (Electrical engineering) the residual AC component in the
DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a
percentage of the steady component of the current.
4:04:11 PM
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Just a thought crossing my mind ...
The web used to be woven "manually", meaning each and everyone referring to each and everyone, but the user would need to actually click on a link in a browser for anything to happen. But now in the times of XML-RPC, we do not need users any longer to let information flow and generate hits, a lot of stuff is just happening automatically in the background ...
If we start weaving the net together with XML-RPC calls that just happen without any user interaction, we may create an uncontrollable beast, a chaotic system. First there will just be small RPC-ripples flowing through the net and dying away causing minor nuisances and interruptions. But one day THE RIPPLE(tm) will overstep the threshold to chaotic system behaviour and the net will just be busy updating itself.
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I guess during the keynote everyone will be blogging away like crazy. What does that mean? Blog servers like blogspot.com and radio.weblogs.com (and/or their respective backend servers such as blogger.com for blogspot and xmlstorage for radio) will see enormous traffic either during the keynote or right after (each and everyone blogging about impressions). But thats only one thing!
The common exchange system which we all "ping" will be exposed to something like a DoS attack from bloggers all over the world: weblogs.com.
Will that be bloggings first defeat?
There have been relatively few major events since blogging has been growing exponentially. If you remeber the "Internet Crash" on 9/11 (CNN having to post a bare-bones static homepage), what will happen if not only the Mac community has something to blog about, but just everyone? Say ... a major crisis in Irak?
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Given I have the CoolTool #1 now (see previous post): I'll try to do a real-time MWSF'03 Keynote blog!
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This is really a cool tool!
NetNewsWire really, really rules! You finally get spellchecking and WYSIWYG for Radio Userland!
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-- exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor! --
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and that 
little icon were always fetched from (or referencing -- if you want) www.scripting.com. And when scripting is not there (as it is for me right now -- you may have less trouble) my blog is not there!