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Friday, December 20, 2002

Mac OS 10.2.3 seems to work all right -- Comment()
OS X 10.2.3: "OS X 10.2.3 is now out, and so far, I've installed it on 3 systems. No problems installing, and it seems to be working just fine." [Teal Sunglasses]

I installed 10.2.3 on my PowerBook G4, without problems. Everything is running smoothly, no problems whatsoever. Nothing significantly new either.

Updated guides on the web -- Comment()
Today I updated three of my short guides, which are available on the web in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. All are written in Finnish:

Käytännön ohjeita ohjelmankehitykseen (Practical advice for software development)
Ohjeita LaTeXin käyttöön (Advice for using LaTeX)
Ohjeita Mac OS X:n käyttöön (Advice for using Mac OS X)

Curing the lost postings of Radio UserLand? -- Comment()
I posted a question about lost Radio UserLand postings at the discussion forum. I got the following reply from Roger Turner:

[...] a problem with this mechanism on Macs if databases don't have the correct filetype/creator codes: does weblogData.root show the correct icon in the Finder?

I noticed that none of the .root files show a "correct" icon, only a generic document icon. After another reply from Roger I did the following in Terminal:

% cd '/Applications/Radio UserLand/Data Files'
% /Developer/Tools/SetFile -t TABL -c LAND *.root
% /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo weblogData.root
file: "weblogData.root"
type: "TABL"
creator: "LAND"
attributes: avbstclInmed
created: 11/18/2002 10:33:25
modified: 12/20/2002 11:33:45

I hope this helps to cure the problem.

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Mac OS X 10.2.3 Update Available: "Apple has released the Mac OS X 10.2.3 update, now available via the Software Update control panel." [MacMegasite]

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Apple Security Alert 2002-12-19 Mac OS X 10.2.3: "Apple has documented several security issues that have been fixed in Mac OS X 10.2.3, which is now available in the Software Update control panel." [MacMegasite]

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Yet another Windows worm: "Lioten, also known as Iraq_Oil, is a Windows network worm spreading through shared folders. It was found on December 16th, 2002 in the wild." [MacMegasite]

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New network worm spreading: "The Computer Emergency Response Team's Coordination Center says it has received plenty of reports to date to indicate that thousands of systems are scanning in a manner consistent with known behaviour of the new Windows network worm..." [Google Technology News]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-072: Unchecked Buffer in Windows Shell: "Who should read this bulletin: Customers using Microsoft Windows XP Impact of vulnerability: Run code of an attacker's choice Maximum Severity Rating: Critical Recommendation: Customers using Microsoft Windows XP should apply the patch immediately." [vowe dot net]

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Quicktime 6 Becoming Mobile-Phone Standard?: "It seems like Apple's QuickTime 6 is becoming standard on some 44 million Japanese mobile phones. Apple and many other companies are pressuring hard to make MPEG-4 the industry standard for video-on-demand services in 3G cellular networks..." [Google Technology News]

Lost weblog postings - again -- Comment()
It seems that the Radio UserLand software is becoming unstable. For the second time this week I lost postings. Fortunately, this time only postings for one day. This is small matter compared to the loss of four days on Tuesday this week.

This time I made a copy of my RSS file, so it is possible to recover the lost postings. However, it is getting tedious to resubmit postings every now and then.