News: January 2005 Archives

Picasa is an excellent photo management program power by google.
Download

Unfortunately, Picasa doen't support Chinese now.

OpenOffice 2.0 Snapshot Builds 已經比舊版更相容於微軟的 Office, 但是仍有很大的進步空間.
若 OO 可以做到和微軟完全相容, 格式也不會亂掉,
誰還需要購買微軟的 Office?

Project Honey Pot is a distributed system of decoy email addresses website administrators can include on their sites in order to gather information about the robots and spiders spammers use.
We collate data on how addresses are harvested, distributed, and eventually spammed in order to understand the entire spam cycle.
My honey pot page

GMail messages are vulnerable to interception.
An attacker has only to transmit malformed test messages to himself,
and information left over in memory,
from previous messages destined for other people,
will appear with the test messages, in the attacker's inbox.
Sometimes, this information may include usernames and passwords...

Gmail maybe knew the problem and made some change.
I worte a malformed (From: <test@test.com) message to myself,
Click the message shows:
Oops...the system was unable to perform your operation.
Please try again in a few seconds

Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool
This tool scans for and cleans malicious software associated with the following security threats:
Berbew, Blaster, DoomJuice, Gaobot, Mydoom, Nachi, Sasser, Zindos

ref.
Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta)
Dave's blog

Yahoo! released Yahoo! Desktop Search recently.
A firend reported it's not Chinese compatible now.

ref.
Google Desktop Search vs. MSN Toolbar
Copernic Desktop Search

Grid.org is a single destination site for large-scale research projects
powered by the United Devices grid computing solution
Current Project: Human Proteome Folding
Download the UD Agent

ref.
United Devices
Folding@home
SETI@home

Genuine Microsoft Software 是 微軟最新驗證正版 Windows 的嘗試
目前不是正版軟體仍可以下載更新軟體及加值軟體, 未來可能強制需要驗證才能進行更新與下載服務

裡面有一個加值軟體: Photo Story
我覺得很棒, 可以把照片串連成影片, 可加上音樂及配音
Download

Microsoft AntiSpyware
Download
I just tried, it's very powerful.

ref. Microsoft Anitspyware First Iimpression

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/
This project aims at making a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter,
so that we have a language like Visual Basic™ under Linux™.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2111610/

Slate did a comparison of them and Copernic was the best (Grade A).

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1747067,00.asp

Lunch atop a skyscraper
這張經典的照片攝於 1932 年, 上面那些工人真勇敢!