Monthly Archives: September 2007

Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3)

Details… Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) Date last published: 9/18/2007 Download size: 119.9 MB Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) contains significant security enhancements, in addition to stability improvements. Some of the fixes included with SP3 have been … Continue reading

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This weeks links: 2007-09-19

🙂 turns 25 Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes – a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis – as a horizontal “smiley face” in a … Continue reading

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Firefox 2.0.0.7

Mozilla have released Firefox 2.0.0.7. This version fixes two vulnerabilities; Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.7 MFSA 2007-28 Code execution via QuickTime Media-link files IMPACT CRITICAL: MFSA 2007-28 Firefox 2 should prompt you to upgrade to the new version using the built … Continue reading

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Trent Reznor says ‘steal my music’

Trent Reznor says ‘steal my music’ as a commentary on the blatant rip-off pricing of Australian CDs; “… Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means —steal it. Steal away. Steal and steal and … Continue reading

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Update to WinSCP v4.0.4.

Via Secunia; Description: Kender.Security has discovered a vulnerability in WinSCP, which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain files on a user’s system and potentially to compromise a vulnerable system. … The vulnerability is confirmed in version 4.0.3. … Continue reading

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And the finish of the “The Wheel of Time” series is …

… never going to be published? RIP, Robert Jordan Posted by Cory Doctorow, September 16, 2007 RIP, Robert Jordan, author of the monster bestselling fantasy series The Wheel of Time. Jordan had been suffering from a chronic illness for some … Continue reading

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Learning 2.0 – 23 Things – Week #6

Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati # Learn about tagging and discover a Del.icio.us (a social bookmaking site) # Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts. # Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and … Continue reading

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Build yourself a bootable Ghost USB key

Ramon asks in a comment on the GHOST boot disks for HP dc7700 (III) post; Any way I can get both disks on 1 usb drive? Below I go through the steps used to make a bootable USB drive and … Continue reading

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Removing U3

Having looked at the U3 drives in the Portable Applications on a thumb-drive post, we have a number of the drives where we need to remove the U3 software. Why? Looking in disk manager we can see that the U3 … Continue reading

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This weeks links: 2007-09-12

International Talk Like A Pirate Day September 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Talk Like A Pirate Day is an original concept created in a moment of temporary insanity by John Baur and Mark Summers. http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ Parallels Updates … Continue reading

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