“I went to Henrico County for a $50 iBook but all I got was kicked in the balls”
From TimesDispatch.com reporting on the iBook sale chaos.
T-Shirts available on on E-Bay.
(via Marginal Revolution)
FrSIRT Advisories: Microsoft Internet Explorer “Msdds.dll” Remote Code Execution / Exploit
A critical vulnerability was identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This issue is due to a memory corruption error when instantiating the “Msdds.dll” (Microsoft Design Tools Diagram Surface) object as an ActiveX control, which could be exploited by an attacker to take complete control of an affected system via a specially crafted Web page.
This vulnerability has been confirmed on Windows XP SP2 with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 and Microsoft Office 2002 (fully patched).
Note : The “Msdds.dll” library is installed with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visual Studio.
Update: 18 Aug:
Apparently only DLL Version 7.0.9064.9112 is vulnerable, in Office 2002 and Visual Studio 2002. Heise reports that a kill-bit needs to be set in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\
The key {EC444CB6-3E7E-4865-B1C3-0DE72EF39B3F} needs to be set to: “Compatibility Flags”=dword:00000400
See Jan Berend Wever’s COM objects and MSIE vulnerabilities recap + additional fix
And then there’s ZOTOB and The battle of Plug&Play worms!
(via Heise Online)
A QuickTime-VR tour of the Polarstern, a German research vessel: Virtual PS
(via Heise Online)
Plugins to search both the WordPress Codex and WordPress Support forums from your Firefox search bar available from mozdev.org
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Introducing LibriVox!
An open source audio-literary attempt to harness the power of the many to record and disseminate, in podcast form, books from the public domain. It works like this: a book is chosen, then *you*, the volunteers, read and record one or more chapters. We liberate the audio files through this webblog/podcast every week (day ?). LibriVox is a VOLUNTEER project: if you have problems with the quality of a recording, get busy and make another one; If you wish to listen, please enjoy; if you wish to record, please contact librivox.
Brilliant idea. Way to go, Hugh!
(via dose magazine)
David Kirkpatrick of FORTUNE: Cashing in on RSS
You know that blogs are cool, but do you know that blogs, and a related technology called RSS, may hold the future for software? That’s the view of Jim Moore, a longtime friend of mine, whom I talked to earlier this week. Moore and his three business partners caused quite a stir last month, when they announced that they have raised $100 million for the first-ever venture capital fund devoted to these technologies, called RSS Investors.
While rssinvestors.com is under construction, another interesting reference from the article is to Flock.
(via Scripting News)
Check this over at wikiPodLinux!
(via digg/gaming)
Due to a heavy RL schedule I’ve been missing out on quite a lot lately… like this for instance.
219 Participants
1823 Sponsors
$56234.47 Total Pledged
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Woah!
Technorati is tracking 900,000 new blog posts created every day.
Dave Sifry put up this graphic: Posts per Day, with Event Milestones
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