New Explorer hole could be devastating

Infoworld ^ | 01/28/04 | Kieren McCarthy

[FLAMING DEATH]

The cool thing is, the .ZIP file that you download is under 7MB.

[FLAMING DEATH]

Now, check this out...

http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions/

You'll be amazed at what Firebird can do with a little tweaking.

[FLAMING DEATH]

I got that one. I also got the ad killer that zaps banner ads within a page. Very cool, and speeds up page loads.

[zeugma]

I'm trying to find it again. I thought it was at the Texturizer site, but I can't seem to locate it. If I find it, I'll let you know. I really need to put all this stuff in one place so I can find it easily when I need it!

[Bush2000]

I think I'll trust the Gartner figure over your generalizations. And I know first hand that Gartner is not anti-Microsoft.

Since you're on the Gartner wagon, here's another interesting conclusion of theirs:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/10/HNlinuxoverstated_1.html
Gartner: Desktop Linux savings overstated
Analyst firm says that desktop environment more tricky than servers

By Gillian Law, IDG News Service September 10, 2003

Using a Linux OS (operating system) might save you money on your servers, but most enterprises shouldn't expect to see the same cost saving if they switch their Microsoft Corp. Windows desktops over, a report from Gartner Inc. said Wednesday."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[Bush2000]

Type that into your browser if you don't believe me, or from a dos promt, type c: (if you aren't already on the c: disk) cd \Documents and Settings\%username%\

That doesn't work in this case. '%username%' does get replaced when you type it on the commandline in the Shell -- but not when accessed as a filename within an app. Nice try, though.

[adam_az]

Actually, you can. The environment variable is exploded when you make a file call.

Also, you can always use the Windows API to get the %username% environment variable

here's the declaration:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/getenvironmentvariable.asp

DWORD GetEnvironmentVariable(
LPCTSTR lpName,
LPTSTR lpBuffer,
DWORD nSize
);


Nice try, though, newbie.

[antiRepublicrat]

Since you're on the Gartner wagon, here's another interesting conclusion of theirs:

They're right. If you do a large Linux desktop install these days, you'd better make sure it's done right. Then it can save money. Slapping together a Windows system these days is more forgiving.

Personally, I think Linux is good for the desktop in only specific cases, but it is maturing -- give it a few years. If you want better than Windows for the desktop, just get a Mac.

[Golden Eagle]

You're still afraid to link those titles like I've asked because you know if you do people will see me defending Sun and Apple just as vigorously as Microsoft.

I support ALL US software companies in the face of foreign freeware. And I'm proud to say this last week I've personally converted someone who was running Red Hat Linux to reload that system with Sun Solaris Unix for Intel, a truly American product although it is currently having to be given away for free with the onslaught of Linux upon America's shores. Yes some of you will say free is better, but it's not, not for America's tech economy and not for us working in the industry.

[Vermonter]

FR Stats

[Bush2000]

Actually, you can. The environment variable is exploded when you make a file call.

Uh, no, it's not. My test app invokes a call to CreateFile() and it returns file not found -- and your assertion is inconsistent with the API docs. But what do I know -- I'm only compiling real code. You? You're just shooting off your mouth.

[Bush2000]

They're right. If you do a large Linux desktop install these days, you'd better make sure it's done right. Then it can save money. Slapping together a Windows system these days is more forgiving.

And, therefore, it's no wonder that people aren't moving to Apple on the desktop.

[Destructor]

I own an iMac! Life is good!! LOL!!!

[Salo]

Red Hat is NC-based. Suse is owned by Novell, which is sort of based in Utah (I think the HQ is in New Jersey now). Now that you've had this little geography lesson, I'm glad to see you coming on board.

I support ALL US software companies in the face of foreign freeware. And I'm proud to say this last week I've personally converted someone who was running Red Hat.

[zeugma]

You're still afraid to link those titles like I've asked because you know if you do people will see me defending Sun and Apple just as vigorously as Microsoft.

I might include the individual URLS in TrollAlert version 1.2. It depends upon how long it will take to make.

And I'm proud to say this last week I've personally converted someone who was running Red Hat Linux to reload that system with Sun Solaris Unix for Intel, a truly American product although it is currently having to be given away for free with the onslaught of Linux upon America's shores

What a wonderful thing. Do realize that SUN is borrowing very heavily from those evil open-source types in their use of Gnome as the default desktop? SUN is also very suportive of the open source movement through their support of the SunFreeWare site.

The trouble for them is that the software world is leaving them behind. Their hardware still rocks in many ways, though they are not as competitive as they used to be.

BTW: unless you are running Solaris on SUN hardware, you really aren't doing anything for SUN except for possibly expanding mindshare by a small margin. SUN is a hardware company. They've never made all that much money on their OS or other hardware as a percentage of gross revenues. It is the support contracts, customer education srvices, and hardware that make the big cheese there. People don't get SUN equipment because it comes with Solaris. Rather the opposite is the case, they get Solaris because it runs on SUN hardware. We use a lot of SUN hardware where I work, and I can tell you it isn't the cheapness of the hardware that drives the purchases. Reliability and support are the major drivers. The average uptime of about 250 days for our SUN hardware is a bit less than the IBM boxes, which at present are standing at over 800 on several of them, but the AIX systems are on EOL at the moment and no real development beyond break/fix is happening.

[Principled]

I'm running it now on another window. Took about 24 sec to download, about 2 mins to unpack and begin. Cool.

[Principled]

Now I'm on Mozilla. I never thought it would be so easy.

I'm gonna go play!

[Colonel_Flagg]

I'm very impressed - thanks much for the link! But I have a couple of questions. Would you mind if I Freepmailed you?

[Golden Eagle]

I own an iMac! Life is good!! LOL!!!

Great Post! LOL!

[Golden Eagle]

I was simply pointing out that surfing a website isn't necessary. The link can be delivered in email.

You're talking in circles again, what? You're going to need a host, to link to, and if you haven't already rooted the client your only other option is your own server, which would be like robbing a bank but leaving your driver's license. There's simply not much way this can be exploited, despite the obvious attempt of the author to distract from the Linux virus debacle.