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Archive for February 12th, 2008

Vista SP1 rolls up 551 bug fixes

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Holy bug farm batman that is a ton of problems here is what I found written concerning this fiasco;
No wonder the Wow had so much trouble getting started. By Microsoft’s own count, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 rolls up 551 separate hotfixes, in addition to 23 security updates rated Important and already delivered via Windows [...]

Technology: SSH 101: Secure Shell Basics and X11 Forwarding

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Here is a great article and how-to and SSH and Forwarding and since a couple of folks have asked about both I thought I could kill two birds at the same time. Here is the opening from the website;
SSH, or the Secure SHell, is a powerful unix tool that allows you to securely connect to [...]

Thunderbird security woes

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

When Firefox 2.12 came out on Feb. 7, it brought with it fixes for three critical security holes and seven that were not quite so serious. According to the security advisories, many of these problems were also fixed in the Thunderbird 2.12 e-mail client. Unfortunately, there is no Thunderbird 2.12.
The Mozilla Foundation’s press release focused [...]

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