pro·crasti·nation n.
Interesting discovery on logging into Twitter this morning, it seems that Twitter Lists have been released into the great unwashed as a BETA 
Note the not so fine print “Lists are timelines you build yourself, consisting of friends, family, co-workers, sports teams, you name it. You’re part of a small group receiving this feature, so don’t tweet about it yet!”
Should it be surprising then that “Twitter Lists” is well intrenched in the Trending Topics?
Mozilla released Firefox 3.0.15 on October 27th, 2009
Firefox 3.0.15 fixes several security and stability issues found in Firefox 3.0.14.
Fixed in Firefox 3.0.15 [1]
MFSA 2009-64 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.4/ 1.9.0.15)
MFSA 2009-63 Upgrade media libraries to fix memory safety bugs
MFSA 2009-62 Download filename spoofing with RTL override
MFSA 2009-61 Cross-origin data theft through document.getSelection()
MFSA 2009-59 Heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion
MFSA 2009-57 Chrome privilege escalation in XPCVariant::VariantDataToJS()
MFSA 2009-56 Heap buffer overflow in GIF color map parser
MFSA 2009-55 Crash in proxy auto-configuration regexp parsing
MFSA 2009-53 Local downloaded file tampering
MFSA 2009-52 Form history vulnerable to stealing
Vulnerability ratings: 5 Critical, 3 Moderate, 2 Low
Affects: Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
Evaluation: Update now
NOTE: Firefox 3.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until January, 2010.
CRP09-61
Firefox v.3.5.4 was released October 27th, 2009 fixing several issues;
* Several security issues.
* Fixed several stability issues.
* Added the ability to re-submit crash reports (bug 378528)
* After using Clear Recent History some SSL sites would not load all images and styles without pressing reload (see bug 480619)
Fixed in Firefox 3.5.4 [3]
MFSA 2009-64 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.4/ 1.9.0.15)
MFSA 2009-63 Upgrade media libraries to fix memory safety bugs
MFSA 2009-62 Download filename spoofing with RTL override
MFSA 2009-61 Cross-origin data theft through document.getSelection()
MFSA 2009-59 Heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion
MFSA 2009-57 Chrome privilege escalation in XPCVariant::VariantDataToJS()
MFSA 2009-56 Heap buffer overflow in GIF color map parser
MFSA 2009-55 Crash in proxy auto-configuration regexp parsing
MFSA 2009-54 Crash with recursive web-worker calls
MFSA 2009-53 Local downloaded file tampering
MFSA 2009-52 Form history vulnerable to stealing
Vulnerability ratings: 6 Critical, 3 moderate, 2 Low
Affects: Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
Evaluation: Update now
CRP09-60
Yes, Virginia, there is a crap internet service in rural Australia.
.. The pigeon arrived first clocking in at one hour and five minutes, the car two hours and ten minutes and the internet dropped out twice and didn’t even make it at all. When the upload began on the internet connection the estimated time of upload was between four and nine hours. …
– Australian internet fails pigeon test (2009-Oct-29) [IT News]
Climate Change
Top 10 Climate Change Videos for Change.org’s Blog Action Day (2009-Oct-15) [alisonramer.com]
The kid in video 4 has got a good point: “Act the f*** Now”
Robot Wars!
The final Royal Rumble (aka Death Match) at the 2009 finals of RoboWars in Victoria, Australia …. heavy stuff!
Asteroids?
An asteroid has hurled through space unnoticed by scientists and smashed into the earth’s atmosphere with three times the energy of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb. — Asteroid slams into earth, ‘like Hiroshima bomb’ (2009-Oct-28) [NineMSN]
Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years
via Read Write Web (2009-Oct-27)
Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking fact about noisy open-plan offices.
– Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us [TED]
McAfee VirusScan
CMA (Common Management Agent) 4.0 agent patch 3
Patch Release: September 22, 2009
Patch 3 is tentatively expected to be Released to World (RTW) by the end September, 2009. (The Managed Release cycle)
Rating
McAfee recommends this release for all environments. This update should be applied at the earliest convenience. For more information, see KB article KB51560.
Fixes the following error from a non-NAI server;
The error appears as “Error occurred while downloading file SiteStat.xml. Unable to find a valid repository”.
LINKS:
[1] Release Notes for McAfee Agent 4.0 Patch 3 (Windows) [PDF] [McAfee]
Victorian drivers will be able to use GPS/SatNav software on their mobile phones after VicRoads has announced changes to the rules that apply from 9 November 2009.
Changes to the new mobile phone rules
The new mobile phone rules have been revised. The change now allows both the navigational (GPS) and audio/music functions of a mobile phone to be used, provided the mobile phone is secured in a commercially designed holder fixed to the vehicle.
…
Using a phone as a GPS while driving is prohibited unless it is secured in a commercially designed holder fixed to the vehicle.
– Using mobile phones and visual display units
(updated 2009-Oct-19) [Vic Roads]
Sanity prevails! And here we all were thinking that VicRoads had gone all feral on us because they don’t get iPhones as SOE equipment.
Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months.
– RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my! (2009-Oct-21) [GoogleBlog]
Futuretainment
21-Oct-09 Mike Walsh was chatting with Richard Stubbs on 774 Melbourne (ABC Radio) about the upcoming release of Futuretainment.
OOPS!
Virginia Trioli is caught thinking what we all were during this rant …
How’s your Anitvirus performing?
Ars Technica; This month Virus Bulletin’s test team put 26 products to the test on Windows Server 2008.
*PASS: Alwil avast!, AVG I.S. Network Edition, BitDefender Security, CA eTrust, eScan Internet Security, ESET NOD32, F-Secure Anti-Virus, G Data AntiVirus, K7 Total Security, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, McAfee VirusScan, Microsoft Forefront, Quick Heal AntiVirus Lite, Symantec Endpoint, and Trustport Antivirus 2009.
*FAIL: AhnLab V3Net (171 wildlist misses), Authentium Command (159 wildlist misses), Avira AntiVir Server (1 wildlist miss), Filseclab Twister (5655 wildlist misses, 1 false positive), Fortinet FortiClient (38 wildlist misses), Frisk F-PROT (159 wildlist misses), Ikarus virus.utilities (3759 wildlist misses, 4 false positives), Kingsoft I.S. 2009 Advanced (98 wildlist misses), Kingsoft I.S. 2009 Standard (2461 wildlist misses), Sophos Anti-Virus (1 wildlist miss), and VirusBuster for Servers (5 wildlist misses).
Dungeons and Dragons Online for free
via Ars Technica;
Turbine, Inc. today unveiled the new content coming to Dungeons & Dragons Online®: Eberron Unlimited™ (DDO Unlimited). Launching later this summer, DDO Unlimited will introduce an innovative new pricing model that allows players to download and play for free, purchasing adventure packs, items, and account services a la carte from the new DDO Store, or to subscribe to get unlimited access to all of the game’s content. Players interested in getting a sneak peak of the new DDO Unlimited can sign up for a chance to participate in the Beta program at http://www.ddo.com.
– (2009-JUN-24) DDO
The 52nd JOTA / 13th JOTI will take place on October 16th-18th, 2009.
Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) and Jamboree On The Internet (JOTI) is an annual event in which around 500,000 Scouts and Guides from all over the world make contact with each other by means of amateur radio and the internet.
