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Friday, October 3, 2003

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The 2003 Ig Nobel Prize Winners: "The 2003 Ig Nobel Prize winners were announced on Thursday evening, October 2, at the 13th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. The ceremony was telecast live on the Internet."

Life without pop-ups -- Comment()
Taken from a comment by gregory at kasia in a nutshell: "I'm wondering how much impact things like Safari and Mozilla will start making on web sites with popups. I honestly have pretty much forgotten they exist. Enough so that I'll send people to a cool site I've found and they'll go 'AUGH. Popup ads all over the place!'."

I must admit I had completely forgotten that pop-ups exist. When was the last time I saw one? Probably when I last started up Internet Explorer - a year or so ago.

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Security suit against Microsoft could turn huge: 'A 50-year-old Los Angeles mother of two who fell victim to hackers has sued Microsoft Corp. seeking damages and an order requiring the vendor to improve its security notification system. [...] The suit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims that Microsoft's "eclipsing dominance in desktop software has created a global security risk" as the world's computer networks are now susceptible to "massive, cascading failures." The vendor is charged with violating California laws because of unfair and deceptive business practices.' [IDG InfoWorld]

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Clever scammers: "I've received an e-mail today claiming to be from ebay and requesting confirmation of information. That's nothing new, of course.. we've all seen these scam email soliciting information. The clever part of this one was that the entire e-mail content was just an image, which was of course a link." [kasia in a nutshell]

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Trojan program uses Internet Explorer hole to hijack browsers: "By exploiting an unpatched hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, hackers used an attack Web site to install a Trojan horse program on vulnerable machines." [Computerworld News]

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Tungsten T3 review: "The first two models in this series were good, but the Tungsten T3 is outstanding. Palm has improved almost every facet of this handheld [...]" [vowe dot net]

Using Mac OS X Mail -- Comment()
I *hate* os x mail: "There’s no way to tell mail.app on OS X that you don’t want it to check mail on one of your accounts." [mamamusings]

I have solved this problem by setting a wrong password for the inactive account. Thus, Mail does not gain access to this account, and fortunately doesn't put up any dialogs asking for the password repeatedly.

Update: I noticed at the comments at mamamusings another way of inactivating an account:

Under Mail | Preferences... | Accounts | Advanced there is a check box to say "Enable this account" and another that says "Include when automatically checking for new mail".