Month: September 2003

New Distributed COM vulnerability. New Distributed COM vulnerability: If you installed the anti-Blaster patch, then today's alert advises you to install another one to guard against a slightly different attack on the same vulnerability in DCOM Remote Procedure Calls. From what I read in this article, if you instead disabled DCOM's default-on state then you should… Continue reading New Distributed COM vulnerability

Exchange 2003 Security Snippets. You've probably heard Microsoft's 'more secure by default' message on their new 2003 suite of products. How does this apply to Exchange 2003? Here's a useful list of 5 specific changes that have been made to Exchange 2003. … [MS Exchange Blog]

Boston Church Agrees to Pay $85 Million to Settle Abuse Cases. The Boston Archdiocese agreed today to pay $85 million to settle more than 500 lawsuits from people who claim Roman Catholic priests abused them. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

CNET NEWS.COM – Security firm: IE patch does not work. A patch released by Microsoft to fix a critical security vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser does not work, according to security experts. The “object type” vulnerability was discovered by eEye Digital Security around four months ago. A patch was released on Aug. 20. It… Continue reading NEWS.COM

Nelson Minar: “network address translation is the bane of P2P.”  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Borders Hits 3/4s. Borders has three-quarters of its stores hot spotted: The chain now has 420 stores (up from under 400 when the T-Mobile deal was announced last year), and plans to have them all equipped before Christmas…. [Wi-Fi Networking News]

Why does C# have ? Why doesn't it have ?. Over the past few years, we've gotten lots of suggestions and questions about the C# language, and we haven't done a very good job responding to them, for a variety of reasons. The first reason is that we haven't devoted as much time as we… Continue reading Why does C# have ? Why doesn't it have ?

New Shifted Gateshead Site. “Gateshead Council's new library web site has gone live, offering a host of innovative services online. iKnow online is a new-style UK public library website. It's aim is to encourage library users to interact with their library service and with other library users, by offering innovative information services and easy to… Continue reading New Shifted Gateshead Site

Update on Domain Mapping. Just a heads-up for those interested in the domain mapping feature. We're still testing it out with a number of TypePad members who offered to beta-test and we're just working out some small glitches. We're hoping to get this publicly integrated into TypePad by the end of this week. We're always… Continue reading Update on Domain Mapping

Where IKEA gets the names. “There has often been speculation about the names of IKEA furniture (especially about the desk Jerker and the bed Gutvik). An article in German in Stern reveals a surprising amount of planning. Thus bathroom items are named after Scandinavian lakes, rivers and bays; sets of bookcases after occupations; dining tables… Continue reading Where IKEA gets the names