No, it is not another smoke free day, it however is the day that I had decided I have had enough of the smoking habit. After 3 cold turkey attempts that failed, 2 attempts with the patches which also failed, oh and don’t forget the 1 failed attempt using the gum, I decided to try lozenges. Well for the first 5 hours I have not had one craving for a cigie. I have noticed that my hand heads for the pocket at almost automatic times, showing me the hard part is going to be retraining me this time. I promise not to preach to smokers that is one thing I hate with a passion. However I will be posting from time to time to let you know how goes the war. Until then have a good day and a better tomorrow.

Clown of the month writes “There’s a nasty worm hole in America Online’s standalone AIM (instant messaging) software that won’t be patched until the middle of October. This vulnerability, first reported to AOL by researchers at Core Security more than a month ago, is caused by the way AIM supports the rendering of HTML content via an embedded Internet Explorer server control. AOL coordinated with Core on the release of an advisory, on the understanding that the flaw was patched in the latest beta version. As security researcher Aviv Raff discovered, the underlying vulnerability was never fixed. In the demonstration, Raff simply sent an IM to trigger the launch of the calculator application. The attack scenario works without the target clicking on a link and only requires that the AIM user is logged on and accepting incoming messages.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Despite AOL’s Claim, AIM Worm Hole Still Wide Open

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the new Eudora adoption into the Mozilla project . But there is another PIM and email project that is interesting, it’s the Chandler Project.

The Chandler Project is an open source, standards-based personal information manager (PIM) built around small group collaboration and a core set of information management workflows modelled on Inbox usage patterns and David Allen’s GTD methodology. Chandler is sponsored by the Mitch Kapor lead Open Source Applications Foundation.

Source: Linux Today

~LC

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iritant writes “As we were discussing, Gran Paradiso — the latest version of Firefox — is nearing release. Gran Paradiso includes a form of malware protection that checks every URL against a known list of sites. It does so by sending each URL to Google. In other words, if people enable this feature, they get some malware protection, and Google gets a wealth of information about which sites are popular (or, for that matter, which sites should be checked for malware). Fair deal? Not to worry — the feature is disabled by default.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google

Has the OLPC project and the “Sugar” OS piqued your interest with all the press coverage it has received? Thankfully since the whole project was created with an open source mission, users can easily download the OLPC OS (Which is a fork of Red Hat) and run on any hardware they see fit.

If you run VMWare (Player for PC or Fusion for Mac) we made it easy by making available a pre-configured VMWare image of the OLPC OS that is already customized (and has networking enabled) that you can download here. To use the VMWare image just open the configuration file in VMWare.

Source: UneasySilence

~LC

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NEW YORK – A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers’ computer screens based on what’s being talked about.
For instance, a caller talking about going for dinner might see ads to local restaurants and restaurant review sites, while someone pondering whether to buy a new computer might see ads for computer stores. Relevant unsponsored links also appear.
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Like the name implies here is a site that has links to the cures to the many problems that a normal user has, and some not so usual. I have been getting them now for about 2 months now and they continue to surprise me with the number of results they get on every topic no matter now obscure it is. Here are a couple of examples that I have found in my meandering around their site.

• Sites with tons of icons for you
• Tons of tools to Sync your Bookmarks
• Invites to those hard to get betas
• Sites to freshen up your music collection
• Check out that new restaurant before that first visit

These are just a few of the many items they bring to the table a must see for those that want new and different tools or toys.

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The first major update of GNOME, version 2.20, has arrived almost two and a half years after GNOME 2.10, its last big step forward. GNOME 2.20 boasts not just improvements to the desktop itself, but multiple significant improvements to GNOME’s applications as well.

Well it has to be faster and not so difficult to use for me to give it look, Baldy

GNOME 2.20 arrives on Linux desktops

Software programs are often made to run on systems that are completely different from the system in which the program is coded or developed. This process of adapting software across systems is known as porting. This article shows you how to port your software from one environment to another.

Jeeesh I have been working on one project for the last week, now I get the short cuts, Baldy

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Porting C/C++ sources from Windows to UNIX

WordPress is one of the best software tools you can use to start your own weblog, but it has additional hidden power that makes it suitable for other things too. The open source blogging platform has come a long way in the last three years, taking on the dominant player Movable Type and forcing it to play catch-up in some important areas. The free WordPress hosting service at wordpress.com has also been a huge success, pulling in hundreds of thousands of new users.

Disclaimer, WordPress is the software I use for The Paradox, Baldy

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The Hidden Power of WordPress in Managing Blogs