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Symantec Warns of New Zero-Day Word Attack - Yahoo! News

Link: Symantec Warns of New Zero-Day Word Attack - Yahoo! News. You may have heard the term "zero day vulnerability" , and wondered what it meant. Often, by the time a computer hack or exploit is publicly announced, it has been privately disclosed, and the computer software maker being attacked has had time to fix the bug or solve the problem. A zero day attack occurs on the day of public disclosure of a new problem. In other words, no time to prepare, no time to protect a user's computer from the exploit. Zero day attacks are becoming more common, and this new one aimed at Microsoft Word creates another excuse for me to pound home the one thing you can do to protect yourself. Unless your email correspondent has specifically told you he or she is sending you a file (especially a Word document) DO NOT open it.

More Google Products

Link: More Google Products. Every research project now begins with an Internet search. I use Google, as it is the biggest and best. However, Google is so much more than most lawyers realize. This page links to some of the dozens of different applications and mashups that Google has created to make search useful. Now, we are told that Google is mashing up its own tools. Plans are in the works to mash Google Book Search, and Google Maps, to allow a user to click on any location in a book, and have a map pop up. Sounds like a match made in heaven. Whatever in the world you are interested in, begin with Google.

� QuickBooks Vista problems are six years in the making | George Ou | ZDNet.com

Link: � QuickBooks Vista problems are six years in the making | George Ou | ZDNet.com. It doesn't surprise me that Vista is incompatible with QuickBooks, one of the most popular bookkeeping packages on the planet. This is a big heads up. DO NOT upgrade to Vista or buy a new computer with Vista installed, until you have confirmed that your favorite apps are compatible with it.

Palm pushes Direct Push to Palm OS - Engadget Mobile

Link: Palm pushes Direct Push to Palm OS - Engadget Mobile. I could never understand the attraction of push email. BlackBerry users running around, carrying a device that controlled their lives. Email came to them when it was sent to their corporate server, and beeped at them. It seemed to me to be somewhat like being in a large corporate office, at the beck and call of some brainless executive who could buzz me whenever he or she liked. Not my idea of fun. I like to be in control of my email. If I want it on my Treo, I press a couple of keys, and my PDA goes out on the Net and pulls the email back to me. Apparently, push email has some attractiveness, since Palm is now offering it on the Palm OS for the Treo 700p and 680. I won't be installing this upgrade. Email me as often as you like. I will download and read it when I am good and ready.

IntelliAdmin.com: The 5 sins of Vista

Link: IntelliAdmin.com: The 5 sins of Vista. It is good to see that I am not the only one who has doubts about Vista. Steve Wiseman, at IntelliAdmin is having all sorts of problems with it. I got this post via Christopher Null, who also is complaining. Duh. Windows Networking with XP and 2000 machines is broken. Duh. The search facility is broken. Duh. Anybody who installs Vista before the bugs get worked out, unless forced to by bosses, deserves what they get. Microsoft has a long history of pushing software to the market before it is ready. We who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Judge dismisses online phone suit - Yahoo! News

Link: Judge dismisses online phone suit - Yahoo! News. Skype has temporarily dodged the antitrust bullet, as Morpheus' antitrust Complaint against Skype has been dismissed by a Federal Judge. Whether the suit lives on in another cause of action or another form, remains to be seen. Morpheus claims that Skype's founders, who founded the original file sharing service, Kazaa, sold the company, but took the Skype voice over IP technology with them, in violation of contract. Curiouser and curiouser.

Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File Recovery - Home

Link: Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File Recovery - Home. Recuva, pronounced like you were back in Jersey with the Sopranos, is a free undelete utility that works like software costing $100 or more. Thanks to Christopher Null for this one. Now, it is never too late to go home again.

Microsoft to extend support period of Windows XP - Yahoo! News

Link: Microsoft to extend support period of Windows XP - Yahoo! News. In an apparent nod to the millions of computer users who plan to stick to Windows XP, and ignore the alleged upgrade to Vista, Microsoft has agreed to extend Windows XP support beyond 2010. Hopefully, Microsoft sees that the day is long past when it could call an incremental upgrade of one of its operating systems a sea change in computing. Users are defecting to Mac, keeping their existing operating systems, adopting open source systems like Linux, and otherwise putting the fear into Microsoft. At least the promise of longer support of XP will retain some of us as Microsoft users a little bit longer. But, is it too little, too late?

Internet Archive

Link: Internet Archive. Okay, okay, you talked me into it. The Wayback Machine at Internet Archive will show you snapshots of websites taken at various intervals over the years. The first picture of the FutureLawyer site I could find was in early 1998. Pretty interesting. It was pretty primitive; however, it brings back fond memories of my earliest experiences with the Web and HTML code.

Happy Birthday FutureLawyer

My Netcraft Toolbar reminded me that the FutureLawyer site is approaching an important anniversary. In February, it will be Ten years that I have had a presence on the Web. The first Futurelawyer site was primitive, to say the least. How things have changed in ten years. In any event, happy birthday, FutureLawyer. It's been a ride. Anyone out there that has a longer web presence? Let's hear from you veterans. I don't dare post photos of the first Futurelawyer site. Or, do I?