Saturday 7 April 2007
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Tech News
A flaw in Windows was discovered this week. It is a little file loaded in HTML that loads up an animated cursor routine that will allow for a buffer under-run. From there, malicious code can be injected into your system. Even Windows Vista was vulnerable. Microsoft learned of this flaw over 3 months ago. Once out in the open, Microsoft finally acknowledged it and released an out-of-cycle patch.
The company that made the public aware of the flaw, EEye, has a free Internet security suite: Blink that can protect you from the flaw.
Steve Jobs has announced that EMI’s entire library of music will start to be sold without DRM (copy protection) and at double the bitrate (256kbps AAC) for $1.29. Microsoft is soon going to follow suit with its Zune Marketplace. Hopefully this marks the beginning of the end for copy protection.
Speaking of Easter, software easter eggs were very popular years ago. They would be placed in by lowly programmers. The easter egg archive has 10357 easter eggs archived so far.
Leo’s Favorite Firefox Extensions
Firefox may no longer be the best or safest browser available, but it still sports the most useful and extensive set of extensions. Here are my current faves:
- The new del.icio.us Firefox extension. This only makes sense if you already use del.icio.us for bookmarking. It might take some playing with but I really love it.
- Google Browser Sync - keeps all your copies of Firefox synched for bookmarks, passwords, cookies, etc. Very handy if you use multiple computers.
- StumbleUpon - got a few minutes, want to find some cool new web sites? StumbleUpon is very cool. There’s an Internet Explorer version, too.
- Customize Google - enhances your Google search results in subtle yet incredibly useful ways
- CoLT - short for COpy Link Text. Right-click on a link and Colt adds extensions to copy not just the link but the text as well, in HTML, BBCode, and Wiki. I use it all the time for show notes.
- AdBlock Plus - I don’t use this but Chat Mod Dan swears by it. Remove annoying ads from web sites (but not this one I hope!)
- NoScript - alows you to selectively enable Javascript. A very important security update.
Guests
Q Dick Debartolo - Micro I.D. Rescue Collar
- Has a USB key on the front that is waterproof
- Key has all information about pet
- Owner must enter information on computer when purchased
- Software has several forms so its easy-to-use
- Whoever finds the pet has all information
- 800 number also on collar that will act as intermediary to help find pet
Q Amber Macarthur - Viral Videos
- The Bridezilla video has gotten millions of hits
- The entire video was an ad for Sunsilk hair products
- Amber thinks this is just the beginning of advertising like this
Q Steve Gibson - Windows Cursor Flaw
- “Zero day” exploit
- Means it came to attention by being in use
- Windows will still process infected files even if not installed
- Only had to preview email or go to a website by mistake
- Then the “bad guys” could install any malicious software
- Infected computers began sending spam email to all contacts
- Safe if using Vista with Internet Explorer 7
- Make sure you run Windows Update ASAP!
Hour 1
Q Christy from Temecula - Spam based from forwarded email
- Getting spam related to topics from forwarded emails
- Ask people to put your address in the BCC field (blind carbon copy)
- Most spammers use scrapers on the Web to look for email addresses
- Many mailing lists are archived on the net
- That’s where you can get in trouble
- Be careful when mass forwarding anyways
- Can look in the headers to see where email is coming from
Q Bill from Colorado Springs - Keynote animations very slow on MacBook/Google Notebook
- Video subsystem in MacBook is not powerful enough
- Buy a Macbook Pro
- Has an ATI X1600 video card
- Google Notebook allows you to automatically copy little clips into the web application
- Wants to know if Google reads through email information
- Read through the privacy terms
- Stay with Hushmail if privacy is of your utmost importance
Hour 2
Q Ryan from Redlands - Moving from Windows to Mac
- Been Windows user since Windows 3.1
- Sick of built-in DRM in Vista
- Wants to know about 8-core in other Macs
- Mac Pro just went 8-core
- No quad core in laptops in the near future
- Leo’s Mac Pro has 4 cores, and never sees it max out
- BootCamp and Parallels play nice with each other now
Q Doug from San Diego - Looking for a tube TV
- Stores moving farther back and back on tube TVs
- Can get an HD tube TV
- Tube TVs in fact give you the best HD experience of all
- Get a flat one
- Leo likes the Sony TVs
Q Roxanne from Tuston - Norton error
- Norton is a piece of junk
- Take it back to the store
- Norton was in a “war” with McAfee for features
- Kept piling on features
- Incredibly bloated
- Can use the Norton Removal tool
- Sponsor NOD32 is very lightweight
Q Tolly from Florence, AL - Leo’s Web Presence Move
- Leo recently moved from Twitter to Jaiku
- This was because Leo was the most prolific poster on Twitter and there was a possibility for some confusion between TWiT and Twitter
- Follow Leo, the intern Shooby, and many other people on Jaiku
- Bought music from MusicMatch
- Then bought a Zune, and now can’t use music from MusicMatch
- Music industry is making money from each time you purchase music from different formats
- Morally/ethically, you should be able to get the music from any other source and use it
Hour 3
Q Connecting PS2 to Viewsonic monitor
- PS2 VGA cables available
- PS2 DVI as well
Q Pat from Huntington Beach - Burning high definition movies
- Purchased Canon HV20
- Training herself to use Final Cut
- Burners very expensive
- Save the HD tapes/media
- Camera has HDMI output
- FastMac announced an internal Mac Blu-Ray burner
Q Sally from Torrance - Important emails being blocked
- Moved to new email provider
- Apparently decided all email from Yahoo is spam
- Several companies subscribe to black hole lists
Q Caroline from Simi Valley - Mac vs. Dell notebook
- Windows is great for business
- Macintosh is a great for home
- Creativity can thrive
- If you configure Dell to be similar with Mac, price within $100
- Could get a PC laptop for $600
- Would never recommend a $600
- 2 Mac notebooks: the MacBook or MacBook Pro
Q Adam from Yorba Linda - Industrial design program