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August 14, 2004

Y2K Revisited

I was in the Christian bookstore at the mall today. That was a mistake. Not because I bought more books (which I didn't) but because many of the books made me angry. I know I'm not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but some of them are just irritating.

Like one book in the discount rack with a title something like Surviving the Y2K Crisis. I thought to myself, "I can't believe anyone bought that crap in 1999, but trying to sell it in 2004? How dumb do they think their customers are?"

August 09, 2004

Microsoft Officially Closes XP Barn Door

Hundreds of security holes later, after dozens of worms that have come as close to crippling the Internet as any terrorist attack, not before hundreds of spyware programs invaded the home computers of most users, Microsoft has finally announced the release version of Service Patch 2 for Windows XP.

The rest of the world calls these "bug fixes".

Anyone want to guess how long it will take to find the next critical security hole (or find one that was overlooked)? I give it 2 weeks, 3 at the most.