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Monthly Archives: May 2005
Terasi 80 x 15 banner
As I’m not an experience gimp nor any graphic authoring tools user, I had been struggling for few hours to make this button. Yes, few hours. I was desperately ended up to find a correct font and picture for the banner. No luck. Then I finally found this site to automate the banner making (duh!). For the picture, I use the small-tiny-globe from Planet 80×15 banner.
Anyway, thx to Ronny for having my blog included in planet.terasi.net.
You can find the file here and use it accordingly.
Google Web Accelerator
Google recently announces its Web Accelerator (GWA). This feature is installed on the client browser and fetch website from Google servers using Google Web Accelerator Traffic. If there are any updates available from the source website, you just download the updates. Much like centralized proxy for the whole earth internet users.
Debian Sarge Freeze is now official
The long waited Debian Sarge release has about to an end. According to this email, Sarge will have it scheduled as below.
3rd May (Today): Freeze time and security support now available for testing
5-8th May: BSP to bring bug count down from ~85 to ~60/70
15th May: Debian installer finalised
27th May: Zarro RC boogs
30th May: Release
Debian Woody previous stable release was on 19th of July, 2002. It is now considered too late to release Debian Sarge into a new stable release. Some people have gone into a newer GNU/Linux distribution like Ubuntu. At least they are doing something rather than postponing the release until God-knows-when.
Sans Vulnerabilities List: Q1 2005
First look at the summary of Sans Vulns list: Q1 2005 (SVL:Q1-05), is not very surprising to have MS to fill up the list.
Top New Vulnerabilities in Q1, 2005 (Summary List)
Microsoft Products
* Windows License Logging Service Overflow (MS05-010)
* Microsoft Server Message Block(SMB) Vulnerability (MS05-011)
* Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities (MS05-014 and MS05-008)
* Microsoft HTML Help ActiveX Control Vulnerability (MS05-001)
* Microsoft DHTML Edit ActiveX Remote Code Execution (MS05-013)
* Microsoft Cursor and Icon Handling Overflow (MS05-002)
* Microsoft PNG File Processing Vulnerabilities (MS05-009)
Computer Associates License Manager Buffer Overflows
DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability
Multiple Antivirus Products Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Oracle Critical Patch Update
Multiple Media Player Buffer Overflows (RealPlayer, Winamp and iTunes)
OMG, MS software on car.
Some people enjoyed reading the MS vs. Car joke several times ago, you can still reach it on this website. Well, It’s not a joke anymore. MS has recently announces to set a new future path to create “a car that wouldn’t let itself crash.”
A big dream for a notorious software company to say “That absolutely should be the goal.”
I beg your pardon?
IBM’s Personal Computing Division by Lenovo
Lenovo completed the acquisition of IBM’s Personal Computing Division on 1 May 2005. This 1.5 billion deal puts IBM aside on its PC and notebook business while IBM will concentrate on bigger mainframe machine.
Looking back at the prominent Think-legend that brought IBM to have its niche market among PC and specially Thinkpad notebook users, does not put this pride on the same equation with IBM strategy. It’s over.
Though Lenovo will still have the pride to Think-legend name in the next 5 years, seems that it is not the Think that people looking at, It’s the big blue IBM company that stand up as the first PC seller in the world with numerous researches and invention.
IBM will get fresh US$650 million in cash and US$600 million in Lenovo Group shares. Though IBM has nominated Robert W. Moffat, Jr. and Henry Chow to sit on the Lenovo board, still doesn’t have much impact to drive the steer as they are only non-voting observer. Lenovo is now having two beautiful dining room lamps to put on the corner.
Lenovo has proven it existence by partnering with International Olympic committee as the first Chinese company to become the computer technology equipment partner with almost 20,000 employees around the world.
The Website.
Lenovo Thinkpad provides with similar website for PC and notebook sales to IBM, but if we trace deeper, we will end up in to an ibm.com domain without live sales available for chatting like it used to be.
Tried to click this link http://www.lenovo.com/support/au/ on this page, I ended up with “Our Apologies. The page you requested cannot be displayed.”
PowerBook, now with Tiger
End of the waiting era for Tiger fans. Apple has change its website recently with several updates including for Tiger launch, Power Mac, iMac, and now the PowerBook.
Now, PowerBook comes with Tiger and that’s not all. Apple stuffed this little beautiful thing with several others software like iLife ’05, including iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD and GarageBand.
Cheaper but still beautiful version, iBook, follows the trend by having the Tiger installed on it as well.
G5? Not at the moment, but If the Boss said the truth, PowerBook G5 is scheduled to ship sometime in Q2 2005.
Though some Tiger fans queued to get Tiger the first on the hand, developers said Tiger has problems with some networking softwares.