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Tuesday, 30 August 2005
For quite some time now, the more vigilant Windows IIS administrators have typically been configuring their hosts to have the “filesystem object” removed, due to an inherent security flaw which permits a malicious user to gain access to the servers directories and files.
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Friday, 26 August 2005
Microsoft is going to release Visual Studio 2005 Express in 2006. As much as I am tempted, I won’t comment on that by the way. It will cost somewhere around AUD$89 and the word is that it may be released free as part of some promotions.
It will also release Microsoft SQL Server Express for free — limitations are that it will run on a machine with a single CPU.
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Wednesday, 24 August 2005
When I first heard of this from a colleague of mine, and based on her enthusiastic explanation, I thought it was just another shonky internet venture. But I was only partially right, it’s a little more sinister than that.
ReadNotify is a form of spyware, which allows paid subscribers to track any email they send to you.
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Monday, 22 August 2005
One of the less insidious repercussions of America’s global business culture has caused such a degradation of our language that nobody is really sure what corporate sentences mean any more. But to make things even worse, slick corporate marketing language, littered with weasel words is infesting other aspects of our communication too.
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Saturday, 20 August 2005
Google has a localised presence in most countries around the world.
Yesterday, while looking at the extent of their dominance, I noticed that one of the places they do have a localised presence is in the Cook Islands, in the heart of the Pacific.
So what, you might say?
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