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June 29, 2004
Apple Adds Better Search to Tiger
There's an article in today's NY Times about Apple adding better search in Tiger. Jobs stated it's easier to find a document among millions on the web using Google than to find a document on your own hard drive. I was reminded of Udi Manber's talk, that I wrote about here, where he said search is not a solved problem yet.
One of the things I miss about not using the Notes client for mail is being able to effectively search through messages AND the attachments in the mail messages. I'm hoping the new mail app in Tiger will get closer to what Notes had ten years ago.
Posted by michael at 08:39 AM | Comments (0)
Microsoft Developer Express
Microsoft has announced a new line of "lite" developer products. These products are targeted towards the LAMP developer community that are currently using free, open-source tools.
According to a Microsoft Press Release, the products will be available for download at the end of the week at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/express/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/
Posted by michael at 08:30 AM | Comments (0)
June 28, 2004
New Lotus Notes Vulnerability -- but to what?
There is a newly reported vulnerabiltiy -- [Full-Disclosure] Lotus Notes URL argument injection vulnerability that will allow a web page to issue additional options to the notes:// URL. The iDefense site explains how Notes can be started with a UNC share. I doubt very many companies are allowing UNC shares through their firewalls. The part that seems like a stretch is:
The attacker can create a malicious DLL containing arbitrary code that will be loaded and executed when notes.exe is starting up.
Could this really happen?
Posted by michael at 03:11 PM | Comments (1)
June 06, 2004
PC Organ Donor for Domino 4.6
Our old home PC that was replaced by the Apple eMac last year has been as useful after it's Apple induced death as before. The PC has been quietly resting in state in the basement, waiting to be called back into action. First, the 40 gig drive found a home in an external firewire drive and became the iTunes drive. Now, I'm pulling the SCSI CD-ROM to add to a test machine at work.
I'm working on installing Sun Solaris 8 for x86 Intel. After using Linux for the last R6 test machine, I'm spoiled. Since there wasn't a Domino 4.6 version for Linux, Solaris for x86 Intel is the next best thing. And, I really do mean the next best thing. I'm running into a common problem with ATA CD-ROM's. When doing Google searches for my CD-ROM problem, there's lots of people complaining about the same problem I'm having and very few answers.
The Solaris install reminds me of my first attempt to install Linux in 1999. Ughhhhh. When this ugly thought came to my mind, I remembered reading that the old Linux installs worked much better if everything was SCSI. Hopefully, this is the answer.
Posted by michael at 01:05 PM | Comments (0)
Lotus Notes t-shirt
Tom at OK/Cancel is working on a new t-shirt design to promote the OK/Cancel brand. He has some ideas and is considering their Lotus Notes usability cartoon as well. Go put in your vote!
Posted by michael at 07:46 AM | Comments (0)