Important Security Update for Firefox Available
October 1, 2004
The Mozilla Foundation releases an important security update for Firefox. All users should upgrade to the latest version of the Firefox Preview Release. A patch is available for current Preview Release users.
How does this security vulnerability expose the user?
A malicious hacker who could trick a user into saving a file could delete files from a user's download directory.
How serious is this vulnerability?
While this is a potentially severe security vulnerability, user interaction is required to trigger potential harm. This security update is also another example of the Mozilla Foundation identifying and fixing security vulnerabilities before they are exploited by malicious hackers. This type of security vulnerability is very different from cases where a hacker could take advantage of a vulnerability to obtain valuable information from a user's computer.
Saturday, October 2, 2004
The Zen of CSS Design
Dave Shea of Mezzoblue has announced that there will be a book available soon, The Zen of CSS Design. It is due out early 2005, published by New Riders, co-written by Molly E. Holzschlag. The book is available for pre-order on Amazon.com if you look hard enough.
(hint, hover over the book cover at left)
Gates: "I have malware on my home PC"
In a CNET News.com article, Bill Gates mentions:
'This malware thing is so bad,' he said in a speech at the Computer History Museum here. 'Now that's the one that has us really needing to jump in.'Gates also said Microsoft will offer software to detect malicious applications and that the company will keep it up-to-date on an ongoing basis. He did not say when the software would be available or whether Microsoft would charge for it.
It's also a problem that has affected Gates personally. He said his home PCs have had malware, although he has personally never been affected by a virus.
'I have had malware, (adware), that crap' on some home machines, he said.
Friday, October 1, 2004
Open Source Web Design
Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. At the date of this post there were 884 designs total.
Some of the designs are actually very good -- but with the good there also comes the bad. All in all it is an excellent resource for designers to have a look at.
VIA: ReachCustomersOnline
Some of the designs are actually very good -- but with the good there also comes the bad. All in all it is an excellent resource for designers to have a look at.
VIA: ReachCustomersOnline
JR's Pages - Homegrown RSS Feed Directory
Interesting find here JR's Pages which is a modest human edited RSS feed directory. Currently there are 1064 feeds available (137 webfeeds and 927 RSS feeds from 347 sources) of which are categorized quite nicely.
You will find some of the perennial favorites here such as Gnomelocker, Mezzoblue, AListApart and others but there are several others that may have escaped your eye also.
What is interesting about this site is the way it was put together. The owner, John Rudge, saw another site and just said "Hey, I can do that". What's more is that it is put together on the personal webspace offered by his ISP.
It will be interesting to see what the directory will look like a year from now.
You will find some of the perennial favorites here such as Gnomelocker, Mezzoblue, AListApart and others but there are several others that may have escaped your eye also.
What is interesting about this site is the way it was put together. The owner, John Rudge, saw another site and just said "Hey, I can do that". What's more is that it is put together on the personal webspace offered by his ISP.
It will be interesting to see what the directory will look like a year from now.
List of Google Patents
SEbasic has compiled a list of Google Patents that will surely keep you busy reading for hours.
Second MSN Search Tech Preview Online Briefly
The Search Engine Watch blog reported that a second MSN Search Tech Preview was online briefly today, and now it is gone. I tried the link to MSN Tech Preview and got a "connection was refused" error in my browser.
Gary Price noted (in the blog entry) not too many changes except that the number of pages jumped over the last time. Since he did not list how many and the site is back down again, not clear on how many that might be -- should be a ton of 'em you would think.
Gary also said, "Still no advanced interface to try on the US side. A UK version of the service provided a number of interesting refinement tools, such as filtering by filetype, date, a numeric range feature and even some relevancy sliders or equalizers."
Clustering of same-domain results was seen with a green button next to them reading "see more results from ...". That is a good sign to see.
Nacho, a moderator at Search Engine Forums had these observations:
* Keyword-in-domain continues being strong, but not as much as Round 1.
* Cache is as fresh as your grocery store around the corner.
* Improved navigation and nicer looks.
* The index seems to have been growing nicely.
* link:www.domain.com is working well too.
* Big authority websites carry weight in ranking. Seems like mom & pop will continue to struggle.
* On page factors and content weigh in heavily.
* Results for other languages are not coming up well (I tried Spanish).
Gary Price noted (in the blog entry) not too many changes except that the number of pages jumped over the last time. Since he did not list how many and the site is back down again, not clear on how many that might be -- should be a ton of 'em you would think.
Gary also said, "Still no advanced interface to try on the US side. A UK version of the service provided a number of interesting refinement tools, such as filtering by filetype, date, a numeric range feature and even some relevancy sliders or equalizers."
Clustering of same-domain results was seen with a green button next to them reading "see more results from ...". That is a good sign to see.
Nacho, a moderator at Search Engine Forums had these observations:
* Keyword-in-domain continues being strong, but not as much as Round 1.
* Cache is as fresh as your grocery store around the corner.
* Improved navigation and nicer looks.
* The index seems to have been growing nicely.
* link:www.domain.com is working well too.
* Big authority websites carry weight in ranking. Seems like mom & pop will continue to struggle.
* On page factors and content weigh in heavily.
* Results for other languages are not coming up well (I tried Spanish).
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