General: Google Viewer from Google Labs
The Google Viewer displays the pages found as a result of your Google search as a continuous scrolling slide show. You can view your search results without using your keyboard or mouse and you can adjust the speed with which the images move across your screen. Each image of a page's contents is accompanied by a short "snippet" describing that page.
A simple a innovative way to provide search results. Here is the
link.
posted by Kumar at 11:20 AM
M$: $2 Trillion fine for Microsoft?
As per
The Register, Microsoft's latest security lapse with its Passport information service could trigger a $2.2 trillion fine on the company courtesy of the US government.
Microsoft product manager Adam Sohn's
comment to the security flaw in the password reset tool of its Passport service which could compromise the information stored on all 200 million users: "You live and learn". Is M$ really serious about security?
The flaw could have been found by anyone who tried to crack Passport seriously. From The Register:
The flaw was discovered close to four minutes after security researcher Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka set to work on Passport. He was able to access Passport accounts at will by typing "emailpwdreset" into a URL that has the e-mail address of a user account and the address where a reset message can be sent.
posted by Kumar at 6:40 AM
J2SE: Joshua Bloch speaks about Tiger release
Ever since I read Joshua Bloch's Effective Java Programming Language Guide, I have been an admirer of his programming style.
java.sun.com published an interview with him(Joshua Bloch is Specification Lead for JSR 201).
Draft specs for
enumerations,
autoboxing,
enhanced for loop,
static import are available at
jcp.org.
Joshua Bloch's sessions at
JavaOne 2003.
posted by Kumar at 2:18 PM
M$: Know thy enemy
M$ seems to be following this perfectly.
1. M$ .NET evagelist Job posts mentioned J2EE experience as a requirement. A good friend of mine who used to be a J2EE developer is now preaching .NET as a .NET evagelist.
2.
M$ training its staff in J2EE and Linux.3. Looking at JavaBlogs visits, you will be surprised some of the visitors are from microsoft.com :-)
Probably its time to start for us to get to know the Enemy.
posted by Kumar at 10:21 PM
J2ME: South Korea is now officially Java country
When it comes to cell phones, South Korea is now officially Java country. From
News.com
posted by Kumar at 3:00 AM
Security: Crash IE with 5 lines of HTML
A new IE exploit was found that crashes almost any version of Internet Explorer past 4.0 with just 5 lines of plain HTML code (no JavaScript, ActiveX, etc.).
Reportedly, the vulnerability can be exploited to crash the following applications:
- Windows Explorer
- Internet Explorer
- Outlook
- Outlook Express
- Frontpage
Here is the 5 lines of HTML thats required:
<html>
<form>
<input type crash>
</form>
</html>
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posted by Kumar at 10:47 AM
M$: Do M$ employees believe in windows?
The first thing M$ employees suspect when something is wrong with their server is WINDOWS. Here is the
proof :-)
Its really interesting to read about Bill Gates style of notes from
Rob Howards Blog:
The first thing I notice as the meeting starts is that Bill is left-handed. He also didn't bring a computer in with him, but instead is taking notes on a yellow pad of paper. I had heard this before - Bill takes amazingly detailed notes during meetings. I image he has to, given all the information directed at him. The other thing I noticed during the course of the meeting is how he takes his notes. He doesn't take notes from top-to-bottom, but rather logically divides the page into quadrants, each reserved for a different thought. For example, it appeared that all his questions were placed at the bottom of the page.
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posted by Kumar at 11:45 PM
