2004 February

“On Microsoft Windows 2000, 16-bit MS-DOS programs may fail to install completely or successfully. The same program may install on some computers that are running Windows 2000 but not others. Some 16-bit MS-DOS applications may install without any error or warning message appearing but still not operate correctly.
CAUSE
The Autoexec.bat and Config.sys system files are marked […]

“JimBUG’s Spam Exam version 2.6.3 help you report spam emails to the admins of the server where the spam came from. You are free to use this program, as long as you do not hold me responsible for any unforeseen problems that may arise. I have tried to make the results of this program as […]

Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner Encyclopedia

Things that … make you go hmm reports on a “free online bar code and UPC code generator and some software you can buy to make offline at barcodesinc.”

Robin Good writes, “In the early days of desktop publishing (1985-1990) I was fascinated by the opportunity initially made available by Adobe Illustrator and by some AutoCad utilities to convert bitmap work and in particular technical photographs into quality line drawings.”
SVG drawings are expected to make a splash in the future… just going to take […]

How are you feeling today? Plug it into the World Mood Chart and see how the rest of the world feels.

Windows Process Library “contains information about all common Windows processes and is continously updated with new information. On this page you can find a subset of the most popular processes listed in WinTasks Process Library.”
Wondering why you see svchost so many times in your task manager? Look no further.

Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 - 1990 “charts the development of electronic musical instruments from 1870 to 1990. For the purposes of this project electronic musical instruments are defined as instruments that synthesise sounds from an electronic source. This definition leaves out a whole section of hybrid electronic instruments developed at the end of the last […]

Buffy and SMG fans, here’s Sarah Michelle Gellar Solitaire for your enjoyment.

Solitaire MahJongg provides “a list of every freeware and open source (and some abandonware) solitaire mahjongg there exists (at least that’s my intention and goal).”
Golly! It’s a good thing I am too busy to play the game these days or I’d be hooked.

Mars Today reports, “The sunset clip uses several of the more than 11,000 raw images that have been received so far from the 18 cameras on the two Mars Exploration Rovers and publicly posted at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov. During a briefing today at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Bell showed some pictures that combine information from […]

Download this free help file, which is an ebook called Priceless listing free software.

“Microsoft this week unveiled its long-awaited technical roadmap for combating spam, which the company identifies as the top complaint of its e-mail customers.
Formally called the Coordinated Spam Reduction Initiative or CSRI, Microsoft’s anti-spam proposal consists of three industry-wide steps:
- Development of an e-mail equivalent of Caller ID to make spoofing a less attractive method for […]

“Britain’s Liberal Democrat party accidentally e-mailed its draft election plans to Welsh members of the ruling Labor Party Tuesday, unwittingly unveiling what would normally be a closely guarded secret.
A general election is not expected until the first half of 2005, leaving plenty of time for LibDem political rivals to scrutinize the party’s strategy.
Members […]

“The buffer overflow is the whipping boy of software security. The main reason for omnipresent discussion and hype surrounding the buffer overflow is that the buffer overflow remains the principal method used to exploit software by remotely injecting malicious code into a target. Although the techniques of buffer overflow have been widely published elsewhere, this […]

“The traction gained by the Netsky-C worm is yet another reason for companies to consider blocking .zip files at the gateway, or at least scan them for executable code.
Netsky-C came on strong Wednesday. Antivirus vendor Trend Micro Inc. raised it to a high alert. McAfee Security has it at listed as a medium risk. […]

“…Exploitation of an access validation error within Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer web browser allows remote attackers to bypass the restrictions imposed on cross frame scripting….Keyboard events appear to be the only events that are leaked across framesets. The malicious JavaScript can monitor all keystrokes typed within the targeted frameset and could be used to transmit […]

Free registration required to read the article. “A judge’s decision last week dismissing a Federal Trade Commission antitrust case against Rambus, a designer of computer memory chips, is proving to be bad news for memory chip makers on two fronts.
The decision by Stephen McGuire, the F.T.C.’s chief administrative law judge, gave Rambus a major […]

“Controllers had switched the blast-off from Thursday to Friday due to
high winds at the French Guiana launch site.
But technical problems have now forced a second postponement, and the
European Space Agency says the mission will not now get away until
early next week.
Rosetta is planned to reach the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in
2014.
When it arrives, the […]

“The Heliodisplay (TM) projects TV, streaming video and computer images into free space (i.e. mid-air). It is plug-and-play compatible with most video sources (TV, DVD, computer, videogame, etc.). The Heliodisplay is interactive — a ‘floating touch screen’ — allowing a hand or finger to navigate and select.”