Month: April 2006

The Next Net 25: 25 startups that are reinventing the web – Mar. 3, 2006

The Next Net 25: 25 startups that are reinventing the web – Mar. 3, 2006:

Driven by ubiquitous broadband, cheap hardware, and open-source software, the Web is mutating into a radically different beast than it has been. And that is leading to the creation of entirely new kinds of companies, new business models, and oceans of new opportunity.

We are in the early stages of what might be better thought of as the Next Net. The Next Net will encompass all digital devices, from PC to cell phone to television. Its defining characteristics include the ability to interact instantaneously with any of the more than 1 billion Web users across the globe — not by, say, instant messaging, but by evolving instant-voice-messaging and instant-video-messaging apps that will make today’s e-mail and IM seem crude.

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Browser security a difficult challenge

Living Without Microsoft :
Microsoft browser heads insecurity league
January 15th, 2006 by jnaughton
Bruce Schneier drew my attention to a fascinating piece of research on the relative insecurity of different web browsers. He summarises the findings thus:

The researchers tracked three browsers (MSIE, Firefox, Opera) in 2004 and counted which days they were “known unsafe.” Their definition of “known unsafe”: a remotely exploitable security vulnerability had been publicly announced and no patch was yet available.
MSIE was 98% unsafe. There were only 7 days in 2004 without an unpatched publicly disclosed security hole.

Firefox was 15% unsafe. There were 56 days with an unpatched publicly disclosed security hole. 30 of those days were a Mac hole that only affected Mac users. Windows Firefox was 7% unsafe.

Opera was 17% unsafe: 65 days. That number is accidentally a little better than it should be, as two of the unpatched periods happened to overlap.

This underestimates the risk, because it doesn’t count vulnerabilities known to the bad guys but not publicly disclosed (and it’s foolish to think that such things don’t exist). So the “98% unsafe” figure for MSIE is generous, and the situation might be even worse.
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HTML export crashes every time – Topic Powered by Groupee Community

HTML export crashes every time – Topic Powered by Groupee Community:
Jayson Adams

Posted Tue March 28 2006 09:45 AM
Unfortunately there’s a bug in the Intel version of OS X that causes NoteBook to crash when generating the Cover page label (and other GIFs). Running it in Rosetta is the current workaround.

__jayson
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