From the daily archives:

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Microsoft Windows Vista is being proclaimed more secure than Linux and Mac OS X by Jeff Jones, security strategy director in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group….  eWeek – MS: Vista More Secure than Linux, Mac OS X – Lisa Vaas: In the report, which will be released on Jones’ blog, Jones compares the number of vulnerabilities of critical, medium and low severity that have been discovered in Vista with those found in Windows XP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS—Reduced Component Set, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.8, Novell SLED 10—Reduced Component Set and Apple Mac OS X v10.4.Jeff’s feeling pretty secure because according to his count Vista is well ahead of the other OS’s.I hope he’s right.  However, it’s going to take longer then six months to be comfortable with the words Windows and Security in the same sentence without the words “lack of” falling in there somewhere.

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Technorati Tags: apple, iphone, at&t

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WordPress 2.2.1 available

by Earl on June 21, 2007

in Observations, Upgrades

This version is both a bug fix and a required upgrade to fix some security issues.  These security issues include: Remote shell injection in PHPMailerRemote SQL injection in XML-RPCUnescaped attribute in default themeI have upgrade Meandering Passage to this latest version and it seems to be working with no issues.  Of course as always if you notice something please let me know via comment or contact.

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Updated Apple iPhone Web Pages

by Earl on June 21, 2007

in Apple Mac, Hardware

Apple has recently updated it’s web pages to give some additional details for the iPhone.  If you’re about to go crazy waiting for the June 29th launch date perhaps these new pictures, videos and details of the iPhone will help you pass the time.

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AppleTV and OS X 10.4.10 Updates

by Earl on June 21, 2007

in Apple Mac, Software

The YouTube feature was added seamlessly to the AppleTV feature set. It installed on my unit with no problems and after a couple of hours playing around with it and watching a fair number of videos I can honestly say that it works very well….  According to Apple update documentation, 10.4.10 includes general operating system fixes as well as specific fixes or compatibility updates for the following applications and technologies:- RAW camera support- Mounting and unmounting external USB devices- Enhancements to Bluetooth- Support for 3rd party software applications- Security updatesIt also seems that a new OS X framework, Yahoo!…  Sure, I can do all that from my iPhone, but do I really want to enter and tweak 300 address book entries on such a small device?Obviously, this is just idle postulation, but I’d be surprised if something like this didn’t get announced before the release of the iPhone later this month.I’ve installed the 10.4.10 update on four Mac’s, both intel and PowerPC machines, with no problems thus far.Apple continues to bring together the different elements needed to enhance it’s digital media enterprise.

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