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Monthly Archives: August 2001
Goodbye, EMBED
Microsoft drops Netscape Plugin support for IE6 (and IE5.5 SP2).
Robert X. Cringlely: Goodbye, <EMBED>?
Cluetrain
The Cluetrain Manifesto — “Life is too short,” we say, and it is. Too short for office politics, for busywork and pointless paper chases, for jumping through hoops and covering our asses, for trying to please, to not offend, for constantly struggling to achieve some ever-receding definition of success. Too short as well for worrying whether we bought the right suit, the right breakfast cereal, the right laptop computer, the right brand of underarm deodorant.
This is a great book, a moving book, and one of the best works of non-fiction I have read in a long time. Especially if you have blighted your brain by reading too many Who-moved-my-cheese type books, read this! And if you’re too cheap, um, impoverished, to buy it, then you can read it all for free online.
Bye-bye, Bluetooth?
CNET: Bye-bye, Bluetooth?
Breaking Windows
[Microsoft anitrust trial Judge] Jackson: It seemed absolutely clear to you that I entered an order that required you distribute a product that would not work? Is that what you’re telling me?
[Microsoft VP David] Cole: In plain English, yes. We followed that order. It wasn’t my place to consider the consequences of that.
When the World Sleeps, India will Awake…
From 54 years ago: Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny.
Loser
Almost quoth 3 Doors Down in Loser:
Some day I will find, a love that flows
Through me like this
But I know I it won’t go any further
than pushing me
Off of life’s little edge
Ctrl+Alt+Del
The story of the invention of Ctrl-Alt-Del is really innocuous.
MSN Messenger Exposes Contact List via Registry?
While checking out some MSN Messenger registry entries, I found out this:
The entries in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MessengerService\ListCache\MSN Messenger Service are mostly of the form Allownn, Contactnn, Reversenn and a few other entries (including a rather ominous MsgPrivacy entry with a value of 00 00 00 00 on my machine ).
The problem is, contact info for every messenger login made by that Windows username seems to be stored over here. While much of the data is obscured (or seems to be (haven’t checked yet)), the email address of each contact is stored in the clear . Interesting thing to remember the next time you use MSN Messenger at a public computer, or on someone else’s machine — your contact list may just have become public knowledge.
Is this a known issue, by any chance? Can anyone else comment on this? I’ve checked this out on MSN Messenger 3.6.0025 on Windows 2000 SP1.
Great SF Online
Great SF short stories online.