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- Microsoft leaves Word zero-day holes unpatched
- Microsoft leaves Word zero-day holes unpatchedNT Well now there's a shocker :o):o)Microsoft leaves Word zero-day holes unpatchedGive it time. They will get it fixed. Just because there is potential for a hole doesn't mean the sky is falling and you will automatically be infected. Practice safe computing like...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Word processors, Microsoft Office, WTF, Microsoft Corp., Word zero-day hole, Word Zero-Day, software, Microsoft Word
- Discussion threads 2007-01-09
- New Word zero-day used in attacks
- New Word zero-day used in attacksThank goodness for diversitypeople can use a different office suite, OS, or application when not in a monoculture. Thank badness that the internet, an antique e-mail system, social engineering, and poor coding here and there will allow for the black hats to have 'fun'...
- Tags: Word processors, Desktops, SECURITY, Windows PC, Microsoft Word, attack, Word Zero-Day, vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., PC, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2006-12-06
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- Can Chrome OS save us from racket ware?
- Open Source / Repositories vs. Windows Closed SourceThe idea of having GPG-protected repositories which contain open source apps is central to the notion that these apps' source code is viewed by 'many eyes' and as such, vetted.Get your app outside of your designated O/S approved repos and you 'tempt fate'.In...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Chrome OS, Chrome, operating system, software, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Google hit again with Street View privacy concerns - in Switzerland
- It is NOT up to Google to insure your privacy in public places. These are places it is perfectly legal to be in and take pictures of, then publish the pictures. Just because the pictures are taken automatically, does not suddenly make them illegal. If you want to restrict the...
- Tags: U.S. Military, Google Inc., photograph
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona
- Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- New LoroBot ransomware encrypts files, demands $100 for decryption
- You forgot to mention....which OSs it affects! Or is it based on something multi-platform like Java?Look at the bigger size version of the screenshot, it's all in thereA lot of russian characters and...YES, you guessed it right, the word "windows" prominently displayed in red in the title.Who would ever thought...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, LoroBot, decryption, malware
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Wordz Lite for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)
- Wordz Lite for iPhone contains five Puzzles. The goal simple, make as many words as possible with letters from the nine letter grid before the timer reaches zero. The rules of the game are simple, the words you find must be at least four letters long, they must include the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Letter, David Pejinovic, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Looking beyond Windows 7 and Office; Pondering the alternatives
- No reason to look beyond Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office, its a complete solution out of the box for every business need. Pondering the alternatives will take all of 5 seconds before realizing the alternatives won't live up to what Microsoft has to offer.Preceding message brought to you...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Loverock Davidson
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Who is a Candidate for Desktop Linux?
- I personally do not fall into the group of people that can easily migrate away from Windows, but that doesn't mean you or someone you know can't make the switch. As I said in earlier post last month, the work that I...
- Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Desktop Linux, Computer, Super-Casual Web Surfer, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- Friendly SQL 1.3 (Windows)
- Friendly SQL for Oracle is a lightweight, zero-configuration Oracle client featuring a SQL Editor and Visual Database Client Browser. With enterprise-friendly features like Microsoft Office integration, saved password encryption, and fully cancelable operations, Friendly SQL enables users to quickly and easily work in any Oracle 8i or higher database. **...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SQL, Microsoft Windows, BE-Theory, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-10-09
- Study: 67% of Mac users would install, try Windows 7 if it was free
- Marketing failureThe irony of course is that changes introduced in Vista mean that anyone could try it free for 4 months.I'm pretty sure that Windows users would also try OSX on the same basis. (Indeed some are helping themselves!)I might try Win 7 for free, but not on my Mac.I'd...
- Tags: Desktops, Linux, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, MAC USERS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Win7, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- IBM targets Google Apps for business, undercuts pricing and touts reliability
- IBM is going after Google Apps Premier hard and has the pricing to show it's serious. Big Blue is announcing the general availability of LotusLive iNotes, a cloud email, calendar and contact management service, for $36 a year per user. Google Apps Premier runs $50 per user a year. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Pricing Strategy, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, Pricing, Manufacturing, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Free the Orphans: Are we being played for fools in Google Books play?
- Give me a BreakGoogle paid to digitize those books. Google paid to setup the storage and bandwidth infrastructure to host the books, and google made an agreement with the authors to be able to publish those books. If anyone else would like to do the same thing they...
- Tags: Google Inc., agreement, orphan
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- PatchTool 2.7 (Mac)
- PatchTool is designed to: Visualize color lists as color patches (color spaces: xyY, XYZ, L*a*b*, L*C*h*, RGB, CMYK, and spectral data) Import color lists defined in industry standard file formats (CGATS, CXF) Switch between the Measured, Random, or Visual layouts of ECI2002 and IT8.7/4 color charts Import...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Bit, PatchTool, Patches, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-09-23
- Do you really need Office? Really? If the Feds don't, do we?
- Sounds like these users could get by just fine with Wordpad.[i]That being said, how many of your teachers are doing this sort of thing? Teachers need to create content, no doubt about it, but that content should be online, accessible, collaborative, and reusable. You don?t need Office for that.[/i]The problem,...
- Tags: Next Up, Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Google Apps
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- What would it take for you to switch to Linux?
- Secret Service ProtectionI'd consider switching to Linux if I was provided presidential level protection. With all the spyware functionality built into Linux allowing serial killers to track your location, it's simply too dangerous to run Linux. You're literally asking to be killed. Save yourself, pay for your software.Linux - Whom...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, spyware
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- 'How I tweeted my way out of spinal surgery'
- Surprise, surpriseObama says that doctors provide unnecessary surgeries to boost their bottom line, and lo and behold, we suddenly get stories of people being coerced into unnecessary procedures.And, of course, we all know that anyone who tweets anything is telling us the absolute gospel truth.And, of course, if this woman...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Obama, hospital, health care, surgeon
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Would you march for Internet privacy?
- We've seen it alreadyRemember the recent outcry from the right about "President Obama trying to take control of the internet"? With, I might add, assurances from the left that it's not so. No different really than the left's alarmism at President Bush trying to "personally eavesdrop on every telephone conversation...
- Tags: Internet privacy, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- White House not equipped to hold keys to the Internet
- Am I the only one who is alarmed?Obama has already seized control of the auto industry, the banks, insurance companies, and is well on its way to nationalizing the health care system. Now, they want control of the internet? Does anyone besides me see a pattern here? ...
- Tags: Internet, White House, Bush, Obama
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- Over 75% of organizations haven't upgraded to latest Microsoft Office
- Cause Office 2007 is a UI MESSReally, who at MS decided the ribbon was a good thing? They should be fired.Let's take up 5 rows of space at the top of my screen that I can't change, can't modify and will confuse the living cr@p out of you.And simple...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, latest Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
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