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Tuesday, November 25, 2003
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OSDL Releases New Paper on SCO's Claims: "The Open Source Development Labs have released a paper entitled SCO: Without Fear and Without Research [PDF] where Eben Moglen debunks SCO's claims to copyright infringement, and also discusses how they contradict themselves by citing that the GPL is both invalid and provides them legal protection. More information at the OSDL site and via an Internet.com article."
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iLike iComic: "Download your favorite web comics, and browse through them offline." (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Nokia biggest manufacturer of digital cameras?: "In the handset category, Krantz says that about one-third of Nokia's phones shipped this year will include either an internal camera or the ability to attach an external camera. He quotes Richard Gould, portfolio manager of the Rockland Small Cap Growth fund, who says all Nokia handsets will include camera phone capabilities within 18 months." [Reiter's Camera Phone Report > The Shifted Librarian]
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CERT Quarterly Update: "Since the last regularly scheduled CERT summary, issued in September 2003 (CS-2003-03), we have documented vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows Workstation Service, RPCSS Service, and Exchange. We have also documented vulnerabilities in various SSL/TLS implementations, a buffer overflow in Sendmail, and a buffer management error in OpenSSH. We have received reports of W32/Swen.A, W32/Mimail variants, and exploitation of an Internet Explorer vulnerability reported in August of 2003." [Matt Croydon::postneo]
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John Robb writes: "I have to worry about what Volokh says. I can either publish what I am working on (and alert planners and the public to an impending disaster they need to know about) or stay silent in worry about legal action against me. Very interesting situation. I think I will publish."
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The threat to universal Internet connectivity: "According to Cerf, the balkanization of the Internet and the erosion of end-to-end visibility has been under way for a decade, thanks to escalating security threats and rapid Internet growth. Cerf points to the wholesale deployment of increasingly intelligent devices such as stateful firewalls and NAT boxes..." [Tomalak's Realm]
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On Safari: "From a UI standpoint it still leaves much to be desired -- it's a one point oh product and it shows." (Matt Simpson via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Helping Mac OS X to grow: buy software! -- Comment()
I have found numerous excellent applications for Mac OS X, some free, some shareware, some commercial. Here is a list of my purchases for the year 2003 (in addition to Mac OS X 10.3, of course):
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