This weeks links: 2007-12-10

OziExplorerCE Development Version 2.00
w00t! New release 13th December 2007

Development Version 2.00 (December 2007)
Changes
There have been numerous changes, below is a list of just some of the major ones.
- Multi page support with screens that can be designed by the user using a program which runs on a PC.
- More than 50 new parameters have been added.
- Profiles for altitude and speed.
- If the Communication Port is set to “Auto” it will search all serial ports at all baud rates for a GPS which is outputting NMEA.
- Compass for navigation to next waypoint.
- 3 Odometers are available for measuring distance.

OziExplorerCE Development Version 2.00

Where I Go
Get ready for a new adventure… http://www.wherigo.com/

Thesixtyone
If Guitar Hero is about shredding, thesixtyone is about scouting.
Musicians upload music and listeners decide which songs go on the homepage.
http://www.thesixtyone.com/

“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small“
– Henry Kissinger

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
– Oscar Wilde

‘w00t’ is word of the year
Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster announced “w00t” – typically spelled with two zeros -reflects a new direction in language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging. — NEWS.com

Patch Tuesday, a Heads Up. (Dec-2007)

This months Patch Tuesday offerings from Microsoft gives us 7 security bulletins – 3 rated Critical, and 4 rated Important. Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and the Enterprise Scan Tool can be used to detect all 7 updates.

Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2007 [2]
Published: December 6, 2007

Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: December 6, 2007
Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: December 11, 2007

This is an advance notification of seven security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on December 11, 2007.

This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the December bulletin summary on December 11, 2007. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.

The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool will be updated.

For this month:
• Microsoft is planning to release six non-security, high-priority updates on Microsoft Update (MU) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
• Microsoft is planning to release one non-security, high-priority update for Windows on Windows Update (WU).

LINKS:
[1] December 2007 Advance Notification (2007-Dec-06) [MSRC]
[2] Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2007 (2007-Dec-06) [MS]