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The Nimda virus uses IIS, Outlook, AND Internet Explorer. Um, HELO?? Ever wonder about the fact that ALL THREE of these products are made by one company?

"This means that if you go and browse a page and you don't have the correct security on your browser, it looks as though the Javascript attempts to forward the virus from your machine to everyone in your contacts book." Cluley said the suspicion is that only Internet Explorer is vulnerable to this exploit..."

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God. I haven't enough breath to say how many things are wrong with this proposed digital rights management bill. This is not digital rights mangement. It's digital rights removal. As content moves to digital formats, media companies are finding that software/hardware can make it possible for them to absolutely control how "their" content is used, viewed, etc. No more pesky "fair use" (in current copyright law). The software is creating law. The DMCA basically says, "any restriction we can put on you in the software is legal". This upcoming bill is worse. Say goodbye to taping your favorite tv-shows. Say goodbye to ripping you cds to mp3. Say goodbye to lending that book from the Library (themselves sure to be illegal soon) to a friend. The Communist states could only dream of having so much control over the information to which their subjects had access.

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courtesy of hans: the humanclock. Make sure you pick digital. It's worth it.

Great post on some mailing list: In Defense Of Flame Wars. The author makes some really good points about the nature of public debate and communication in a textual, non-real-time medium. There are some web boards I've frequented that could benefit from some of this.

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Excite: "Helios&#39'brain' is an Apple Computer Macintosh computer that would guide it back to Earth when necessary."

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Joel: "Make a ten year plan. Make sure you can survive for 10 years, because the software products that bring in a billion dollars a year all took that long. Don't get too hung up on your version 1 and don't think, for a minute, that you have any hope of reaching large markets with your first version. Good software, like wine, takes time." Excellent read if you are in the business of creating software, or want to be.

Jim has a little accident involving 'rm -fr'. Oouuch.

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New Enterprise Pictures from Entertainment Tonight.

I warn you: I and a bunch of friends were TOTAL Star Trek:TNG fans. There are going to be a lot of Star Trek:Enterprise links here in the near future.

Speaking of... here's a synopsis of an interview Rick Berman gave TV Guide.

Cool! Both Jim and Greg have tried out Sid... Muahahahahaha!

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REM has a photo of the artwork for the new album REVEAL on their site.

This is great - it's classic REM style (art directed by Micheal Stipe) - UP-ish lettering, country landscape, and shadow of Michael-with-camera. (Can any serious REM fan tell me that's NOT what we're seeing? Think "Document".)

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Just posted this to the webobjects-newbies list: Google found this GREAT pdf from Apple's WWDC 2000 on Optimizing WebObjects applications, by long time WO developers CodeFab. If you're starting out in WO - go read it. Now.

Hey - git!!

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Ok, I'm a lemming - along with dozens of other weblogs, I've submitted an application for an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) (like an ISBN but for serials) for "Redmonk.Net" as an online serial publication. Man, That's cool.

"Jim" Roepcke, my current WebObjects mentor and all-around great guy, is bragging about the blog he built in an hour with WebObjects. We won't mention who put him up to it...

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RSSPuller is an applescript applet that works with a fantastic Mac outliner called BrainForest. Brainforest Professional is the desktop version of a Aportis's Palm outliner. BrainForest is also very scriptable, with a flexible object model for manipulating outlines. Here's what you end up with from RSSPuller:

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This afternoon I registered, along with Jodi, for the MacWorld Expo in San Fransisco. Wooooohooooo!!! I have always wanted to be at one of these events. So, Jan 9th through the 14th we'll be on the left coast, checking out San Fransisco and all that's new in the Mac Universe. ;-)

To document the trip, I've created a new MWSF 2001 section on the site, as well as a weblog, of course! In time, the MacWorld Expo section will get it's own template, with links to interesting tidbits as I see fit.

If anyone is going to be at MW, post a response to this message, and let's set up a time to meet and greet! All are welcome!

P.S. - I apologize, the weblog link is currently broken. Please be patient.

P.P.S. - Thanks to Flip from "Macrobyte", my MWSF weblog is now fixed!

#item1413"='href"http://jim.roepcke.com/2000/12/03None#item1413"' 12="" 2000="" href"http:="" jim.roepcke.com="">Jim points out that Radio Userland, once promised to be a free distribution, will actually have a moderate price once officially released.

Perusing "Seth"'s older posts, I stumbled on this one, on the overuse/misuse of the word "get" in American English vernacular. Hmmm. Conciously changing one's speaking patterns must be (notice I did NOT write "has got to be") one of the most difficult exercises I know. I've tried it a couple times before.

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Anton Corbyn, the photographer for U2's Achtung Baby album, does them again for All That You Can't Leave Behind.

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You can now get Recent Redmonk as an RSS file. I've wanted this for while, and due to Conversant's flexibility, there'tis!

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One app I'm eagerly awaiting on "Mac OS X" is WriteUp, from Anderson Financial Systems. WriteUp is an excellent word processor, and has been available on just about every iteration of NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and Rhapsody; there should be a version for Mac OS X available by the end of October, as evidenced here.