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Thursday, January 29, 2004

Videoconferencing with Marratech Pro -- Comment()
Today I tested videoconferencing and collaboration with Marratech Pro between Windows and Mac OS X. I had an Apple iSight camera and a Plantronics headset, which worked fine with Marratech Pro. The sound quality was excellent, and the video came trough a bit slow, but acceptably. The best feature of the software are the collaboration functions, where you can share the contents of a Window, or edit a document together with another party. The program crashed once on my Mac, but started up again. The crash was probably due to my sending a massive screen capture to be shared over the net.

25,415 spam messages -- Comment()
Visakopu.net commented my entry on the number of spam messages: "Heh, that's nothing! Thanks to Mydoom I've received the whopping number of 18,517 spam messages since the reset of SpamSieve which happened 43 hours ago. I have to admit that it wasn't that bad before this virus. I used to receive 300-400 spam messages a day." The most recent entry at Visakopu.net updates the count to 25,415 spam messages.

That is really bad. For me the situation is not getting worse. I now have 348 spam messages in my inbox. Double filtering of e-mail seems to spare me from most of the deluge.

-- Comment()
New Explorer hole could be devastating: "A security hole in Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer could prove devastating. Following the exposure of a vulnerability in Windows XP earlier this week, [...] Explorer 6 users [...] could be fooled into downloading what look like safe files but are in fact whatever the author wishes them to be -- including executables." [InfoWorld: Top News]

When Windows leaks, bullshit flows -- Comment()
Today I wrote a short piece on Windows security. Have to see if the piece gets published. I took a rather sceptical position towards the recent Microsoft statements.