John R. Collins' Radio WeblogA little place in blog space for Java programmers interested in Java user interfaces, web programming, databases, and networking, to learn the latest things.(Untitled)- August 21, 2003 Ovidiu Predescu posted the following revelation on his weblog yesterday. It seems he found out that power companies had actually installed Microsoft Windows in their operations, despite all the known dangers of MS Windows due to security vulnerabilities, prevalent worms and viruses, reliability problems, etc.... There are lots of speculations about the powergrid being brought down by a remotely triggered virus. I just found this Frontline episode on...http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/08/21.html#a94 (Untitled)- August 21, 2003 As the MSBlast worm continues exploiting a Windows vulnerability to spread across the Net, Microsoft issues an alert on three critical security flaws in Internet Explorer. CNET News.comhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/08/21.html#a93 (Untitled)- August 13, 2003 W3C's updated "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2" Working Draft moves SVG beyond an XML format for graphics, positioning it as an application platform. New features include Rendering Custom Components (RCC); Live Templates alternative; dSVG reference (a UI toolkit); filter region extensions; SVGTimer interface; better network data fetching; Document Simple Model (scripting without DOM); tooltips; an experimental RelaxNG schema. The XML Cover Pageshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/08/13.html#a92 (Untitled)- August 13, 2003 The W3C XForms Working Group has released its "XForms 1.0" specification as a Proposed Recommendation and welcomes public review through August 29, 2003. XForms is W3C's new generation of Web forms which separates purpose, presentation, and data. XForms is designed to be more flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, enabling validity constraint checking and integration into other markup languages such as XHTML or SVG. The XML Cover Pageshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/08/13.html#a91 (Untitled)- August 13, 2003 Well, apparently not only has the quality of Microsoft's Windows product been called into question, but also the reliability of the patches they throw like scraps of food to dogs under the table. These scraps, or patches as they are called, have been known to crash users computers. Administrators have had to spend hours backing them out before getting the computer to work as well as they did before the defective patch was installed.http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/08/13.html#a90 (Untitled)- August 13, 2003 The latest worm to successfully exploit one of the myriad security loopholes in Microsoft Windows, used by home PC users to run games and some businesses to calculate sensitive financial records, infected 120,000 IBM PC clone computers in just 24 hours. Apparently the infection continues to spread, though for the time being the rate has slowed a little. According to computer analysts, the legion of reprogrammed computers will attack Microsoft's windowsupdate.microsoft.com domain this...http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/08/13.html#a89 (Untitled)- August 8, 2003 Release Candidate 1 is out of Apache Cocoon. It looks like the next generation of Cocoon will be out for real soon. Cocoon is a wonderful example of how much can be done all from one environment, using XML. Although it is hard to believe, from Cocoon, you can access: XML, XSLT, SQL, scripting languages (Jython, Rhino, etc.) via BSF, Java code (by subclassing Action or whatever), SVG (creating JPG, GIF, etc.) graphics, PDF files (via XSL-FO), and tons more. Though direct manipulation of...http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/08/07.html#a88 |