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New Vulnerability found in Apple Safari Browser.
Unlike the "worm" that appeared last week, this vulnerability is quite serious, and I would strongly urge everyone using Safari to disable the "Open 'safe' files after downloading" option like the article describes.
On a web page, if you have a SELECT control that's been set to disabled, does it still respond to color settings in a style sheet? I mean, the actual font - I can still change the background color.
eta: I'm only concerned about IE 6.
eta²: OK, it appears that when a SELECT control is disabled, the font is gray and there's nothing you can do about it. For example:
<SELECT id="Select1" style="WIDTH: 191px; COLOR: red" name="Select1" disabled>
the red doesn't work. But if you take the 'disabled' away, it does.
I've been using ZoneAlarm, haven't had any problems.
I was wrong. I just updated my copy of ZoneAlarm and was reminded that I have to disable one of it's parts ("TrueVector" -- vsmon.exe) in Startup or else I have trouble with network connections, disk scan, and disk defragmenter.
Dvorak is an asshat. He regularly writes idiotic and highly speculative screeds that invariably turn out to be wrong, but increase his hit count in the short term.
...how do you really feel? :-)
Is there really going to be be that many versions of Windows Vista? I'll probably be using Vista at work, but I have no intention of using it at home. I wouldn't have Windows on my home computer at all if not for a bunch of Corel files that I can't convert and my video processing stuff.
Speaking of Windows Vista, I have heard that Microsoft is jacking around with the smb protocol to try to break Samba for Vista clients/servers. That would be pretty annoying for Linux and Mac OS X people.
Is there really going to be be that many versions of Windows Vista?
I've read that info was released from Microsoft accidentally - so the number and types of versions might be different.
"Microsoft disclosed information about a plan to release eight different editions of the new operating system on a company help page that was under development. The company has not made any official statements about the different versions of Windows Vista it plans to offer. The company has since taken down the Web site and declined to confirm the information and said it will offer more details about the Vista launch, targeted for the second half of 2006, in the coming weeks. Microsoft spokesman said in a statement 'This page has since been removed as it was posted prematurely and was for testing purposes only.'"
That Dvorak article is actually funny.