New Mozilla / Firefox release this week.

News.com reports that apparently a coding misstep in the newly released Firefox 1.0.5, Thunderbird 1.0.5, and Mozilla 1.7.9 might leave without functionality some of its extensions. For this reason the Mozilla foundation plans to upgrade its products once again this week.
On the bright side, it seems (according to news.com) that the next Firefox will have bit torrent support as well.

In other firefox news, you probably noticed the Firefox Google Bar is already out and ready. Additionally, some security issues with its prior releases (google bar's) have been fixed.

This afternoon it seems I'm "patching entries", I'm not actually touching any new topic. =/

Remember about Microsoft's Windows XP Remote Desktop control vulnerability? Well, it affects other windows versions as well.
From news.com:

Until a patch is available, Microsoft suggests users block TCP port 3389 (the port used by RDP) on their firewall, disable Terminal Services or Remote Desktop if not required, or secure remote desktop connections using either Internet Protocol Security or a virtual private network connection.

Which is pretty much disabling the service. It's good to see they are not throwing a "Buy anti-virus software! Download and install our patches!" sentence at users any longer, like they usually do in these cases, because we all know there is no anti-virus or patch for this flaw.

In days like this I feel like hugging my GNU/Linux box.
Talking about which, I hope to have a little spare time tomorrow to review some very interesting applications running on Linux; among them BRL-CAD.


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