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Critical Windows 98, Me Flaw

(No Fix for Critical Windows 98, Me Flaw)

Microsoft has encountered a critical vulnerability in Windows 98, 98 SE and Windows Me that it simply cannot fix, the company acknowledged Friday. The flaw affects Windows Explorer and after investigating the issue, Microsoft said it would need to reengineer a significant amount of the operating system.

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The Redmond company says that because it would need to re-architecture Windows Explorer in those legacy systems to better match Windows 2000, a fix just isn’t feasible. According to the updated bulletin, Microsoft could not ensure that applications written for Windows 9x would continue to operate as intended after the changes.

Moreover, Microsoft has little incentive to expend the resources necessary to patch the flaw. Support for Windows 98, 98 SE and Windows Me ends on July 11, which means no more security updates will be released and no technical or public support will be provided.

Windows ‘Fun’

(via wincustomize.com)

Here’s how to do it:

Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor)

Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): “this app can break”

Save the file to your hard drive.

Close Notepad

Open the saved file by double clicking it.

One has to wonder how many more of these “gems” are just waiting to be discovered. Since Windows isn’t open source, we may never know…

Mmmm, Monkey Chow

The next fad diet?

Check out: The Monkey Chow Diaries

Spammers should all experience a slow and painful death

Since January 16, 2006, over 14,000 attempts to post comment spam to this site have been logged. That’s 1,000 spam comments since May 30, 2006.

I’ve recently started learning Ruby. One could ask “why learn yet another scripting language, especially since Perl has served so well these past several years?” The only reason is the object oriented features of Perl seem tacked on as an afterthought, while Ruby is a is a complete, full, pure object oriented language: OOL (object oriented language).

While messing around with Ruby, I stumbled upon tDiary, a Web-based diary system (like weblog) written in Ruby. tDiary is pretty slick because it doesn’t require a database to set up. I decided to give it a try using the free web space provided by my isp.

Feel free to check it out: Yet Another Web Log

The Way a Stripper Works the Pole

(via Peripetia)

[Ann Coulter] works the talkshow and lecture circuit the way a stripper works the pole, as a ritualized form of exhibitionism, going through the moves she knows will get the desired response.
— James Wolcott

Friday Quasi-Random Ten

	Name	Artist	Album	Genre
1.	I. Overture	Dream Theater	Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2)	Metal
2.	II. About To Crash	Dream Theater	Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2)	Metal
3.	III. War Inside My Head	Dream Theater	Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2)	Metal
4.	IV. The Test That Stumped Them All	Dream Theater	Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2)	Metal
5.	V. Goodnight Kiss	Dream Theater	Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2)	Metal
6.	VI. Solitary Shell	Dream Theater	Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2)	Metal
7.	VII. About To Crash (Reprise)	Dream Theater	Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2)	Metal
8.	VIII. Losing Time / Grand Finale	Dream Theater	Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2)	Metal
9.	The Gates Of Delirium	Yes	Relayer	Rock
10.	The End	The Doors	The Doors	Rock

An Apology

(via email & Salon)

Having been called names, one looks back at one’s own angry outbursts over the years, and I recall having once referred to Republicans as “hairy-backed swamp developers, fundamentalist bullies, freelance racists, hobby cops, sweatshop tycoons, line jumpers, marsupial moms and aluminum-siding salesmen, misanthropic frat boys, ninja dittoheads, shrieking midgets, tax cheats, cheese merchants, cat stranglers, pill pushers, nihilists in golf pants, backed-up Baptists, the grand pooh-bahs of Percodan, mouth breathers, testosterone junkies and brownshirts in pinstripes.” I look at those words now, and “cat stranglers” seems excessive to me. The number of cat stranglers in the ranks of the Republican Party is surely low, and that reference was hurtful to Republicans and to cat owners. I feel sheepish about it.
— Garrison Keillor

6/6/6 – The day of the beast

These have been around for a long time…

666 – number of the beast
668 – neighbor of the beast
DCLXVI – roman numeral of the beast
666.000 – number of the high-precision beast
1010011 – binary number of the beast
$665.95 – retail price of the beast
$656.66 – Wal-Mart price of the beast
Phillips 666 – gasoline of the beast
Route 666 – way of the beast
666 F – oven temperature for cooking roast beast
666K – retirement plan of the beast
666 mg – recommended daily requirement of beast
6.66% – 6 year CD rate at First Beast Bank ($666 min. deposit)
Lotus6.66 – spreadsheet of the beast
Word66.6 – word processor of the beast
666i – BMW of the beast
IAM 666 – license plate of the beast
WD-666 – spray lubricant of the beast
66.6 MHz – FM radio station of the beast
666 KHz – AM radio station of the beast

That’s just wrong…

BASEBALL’S BEST BURGER!:

The Grizzlies and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts have teamed up to create “Baseball’s Best Burger.” The burger, which was debuted at the Grizzlies’ December 10th sale, consists of a thick and juicy burger topped with sharp cheddar cheese and two slices of bacon. The burger is then placed in between each side of a Krispy Kreme Original Glazed doughnut.