Archive for July, 2004
The first public release of bash-3.0 is now available via ftp and from the usual GNU mirror sites. For the official release notes by the author, Chet Ramey, check his usenet post.
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PHP.net announced the release of PHP 5.0.0 on July 13, 2004.
I upgraded this webserver to PHP5 today.
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The same book that boasts the world records for most glasses balanced on a chin, the tallest snowman and longest continuous clapping session, now includes Cisco Systems Inc.’s new machine that directs Internet traffic.
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Microsoft announced a new Express version of Visual Studio 2005 on Tuesday. “Express products are an expansion of the Visual Studio product line to include lightweight, easy to use, and easy to learn tools for hobbyists, enthusiasts, and students who want to build dynamic Windows applications, Web sites, and Web services.” The Express version is a feature limited product meant for simplicity for students and enthusiasts.
Continue reading ‘Microsoft launches Visual Studio Express and VS 2005 Beta’
Microsoft said Wednesday that it will boost storage limits in its Hotmail Web e-mail service, a move intended to counter similar steps taken by rivals Google and Yahoo.
The upgrade will increase Hotmail’s free e-mail storage limits from 2 megabytes to 250MB and its paid e-mail service, which costs $19.95 a year, from 10MB to 2 gigabytes. The changes will begin in early July.
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The long wait is over. Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) is out. And it’s Build 2149, for all you rabid beta testers itching to get your hands on the latest external beta build. This is not the final release; in fact, Microsoft is being a bit coy about exactly when to expect the operating system update that’s masquerading as a lowly service pack. (The release-to-manufacturing date is supposed to be late July.) For now, RC2 is only available to pre-registered Windows Beta site testers, but expect it to be made available to a larger pool shortly.
On June 24th, a visitor to the SANS Internet Storm Center reported that his company was “…in the middle of a very disturbing … issue regarding the adware/spyware/IE exploit genre…” He requested help analyzing an “encrypted or compressed” file that had been downloaded to a machine at their site. Tom Liston, one of our volunteer handlers, spent the weekend analyzing this issue.
The article mentions a BHO (browser helper object) scanning tool. Spybot Search & Destroy also has a BHO tool built in.
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