This is new minor release containing security updates, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) support and some new language.
Fixed security issues:
- URIs with invalid %-encoding mishandled by Windows
- XPCNativeWrapper pollution using Script object
- Possible file stealing through sftp protocol
- XUL pages can hide the window titlebar
- File input focus stealing vulnerability
- Browser digest authentication request splitting
- onUnload Tailgating
- Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.8)
As always, you can download latest Mozilla Firefox at official site or read version Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8 full release notes.
Joost has released new minor version improvement mainly fixing bugs.
Official release: Joost Beta 1.0.2. Release date: October 17, 2007
Filename: JoostSetup-Beta-1.0.2.exe, Filesize: 10.1 MB.
This version still in beta 1.0 version and will also carry the old release notes.
Finally, Joost has gone public with its latest player release Download Joost 1.0 Beta. Previously user have to invited to register, download and use Joost internet TV service, now anyone can download and use Joost without invitation.
If you haven’t know here is some interesting facts about Joost
- Joost was created by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, founders of Skype and Kazaa.
- Joost is using Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology.
- Joost development began in 2006
- Joost is a free service funded by advertisings.
- Joost user can comunicate with each other using widgets.
What you waiting for, join this new technology.
This maybe not really new news but even I just found this. I never have my Windows Automatic Updates turned on that maybe the cause I miss this update. While I am not really sure what they update in this release here is quote from the download definition.
The Microsoft DirectX® End-User Runtime provides updates to 9.0c and previous versions of DirectX - the core Windows® technology that drives high-speed multimedia and games on the PC.
Some of you might noticed, updates to 9.0c is not new, it is old version of DirectX but there must be something new in this package.
I found 3 versions of them DirectX® End-User Runtime, DirectX SDK - (August 2007) and DirectX Redist (August 2007). All of them required you to have genuine Windows with WGA check to download.
Special for non-genuine Windows user, direct download link to Microsoft Windows DirectX Redist (August 2007).
If you read my previous post GNU Wget, The Ultimate Command-Line Download Tool, you might be noticed that I cant use the word “wget” I cant even use that word here or anywhere. I guess this is just some nasty WordPress bug.
As my previous post it took me more than 2 hours scratching head wondering what wrong that I can’t post to my WordPress powered blog. At first I thought it was Post2Blog, my new blogging tool (I just start using Post2Blog in the past few days) that cause that error, I get error 404 every times I mentioned the word “wget”. Then, I switch to my other blogging tools, BlogDesk (this is my long time favorite blogging tool before I found Post2Blog), The Journal (this is not “pure” blogging tool hence it is named the journal LOL), Ecto and last but not least WordPress build-in web-based write post function. All of them give error 404 page not found!, I repeat ALL OF THEM, even the web-based will redirect me to default WordPress error 404 handling page LOL. So, I guess this might be serious problem.
Here is some screen shot taken.
Error from BlogDesk
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Have you ever use or heard W-get? If you are not, you missing a great free software. GNU W-get is a software for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols.
W-get is a non-interactive command line tools without user interface. W-get on the first hand was dedicated as download tool for Unix and Linux platform, because of its popularity, W-get has been ported to many other operating system including Windows and Mac OS.
Some of its main feature is recursive download, conversion links for offline viewing of HTML, proxy support and resume download support. Here is w-get full feature list taken directly from GNU website.
- Can resume aborted downloads, using REST and RANGE
- Can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories
- NLS-based message files for many different languages
- Optionally converts absolute links in downloaded documents to relative, so that downloaded documents may link to each other locally
- Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows
- Supports HTTP and SOCKS proxies
- Supports HTTP cookies
- Supports persistent HTTP connections
- Unattended / background operation
- Uses local file timestamps to determine whether documents need to be re-downloaded when mirroring
As for me, my main use is to make local copy of website for offline viewing and recursive download from no index website folder. Check out my example how to use w-get.
PS: If you want to know why I write w-get instead of normal word without the dash, read my next post 
Did you know all ActiveX you installed over the internet? Is it really useful or it is just waste of your precious resource. Maybe you didn’t care much about your memory if you have large physical memory 1 Gigabyte, 2 Gigabytes or even more. But, for me I will try to track every single byte my applications use, maybe because I used to have only 512MB memory in the past and I have bad habit of extreme multitasking. It is normal for me to have 50+ apps running at the same time.In my personal point of view which I cant prove technically (or I don’t know to prove it) every single object that you see running on your computer will use some memory/resource. Whether it is something with interface or don’t have interface at all. It is a waste if you have/run them but you don’t really use/need them. Enough talking, now lets see how to uninstall ActiveX use by Internet Explorer or IE based browser.
What I’ll show you is from Ie7 because I don’t have ie6 anymore 
- Fire up IE and open Internet Options. Menu bar -> Tools -> Internet Options.
- Go to programs tab and click on Manage add-ons.
- Now you will see list of installed add-ons. Click on the show combo box will show you some other display options.
- Now browse trough the list and see what add-ons you have and which one you really use/need.
- To remove/remove, click on the add-on name and choose disable or delete button.
Thats it! Now not only your browser will run faster, you will now save a lot of your resource.
Remark:
- If you don’t know which one to disable, just leave the one Published by Microsoft and you can experiment with other.
- Check the file name will give you will give you some sense who is the publisher.
- If something look suspicious try googling the file name in case someone already detect it as malicious thing.
- If the add-ons have uninstaller, use it! because this can be consider as force way
Thats all, good luck
