Another New IE and Windows Exploit… Even After Mega-patches!

Microsoft just released TONS of patches for IE due to it’s being a dog browser and full of security holes… but no sooner did they release all these patches… another HUGE problem has turned up!

HUGE IE Issue!

“Barely two weeks after shipping an Internet Explorer security makeover to cover a wave of drive-by malware downloads, Microsoft is scrambling to address the public disclosure of a new zero-day vulnerability that could be used in code execution attacks. Michal Zalewski, the researcher who discovered the flaw and published the advisory without notifying Microsoft, said the issue was confirmed on fully patched versions of IE 6.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2).”

A Group of Geeks Seek to Destroy Internet Explorer!

An Internet campaign to get web surfers to move from Internet Explorer to Firefox is making news! They have code that a webmaster can include on their sites that will detect Internet Explorer, and flash up a message for the user to move to Firefox! Dewd! Making the Internet safer for us all!

Explorer Destroyer Web Site

They have started a competition to see you can get under 50% of their web site stats from IE.

“What percentage of visits to your site are with Internet Explorer? Check your stats. If it’s more than 50%, you’ve got some serious work cut out for you…

Think how psyched you would be if less than 50% of your sites’ visitors used IE. It’s a good target: ambitious, but achievable. So we thought we’d make it a friendly competition.

Here’s how it works: if you want to you can turn on code in those scripts that will pass stats to our site about the percentage of IE users who visit. When you get under 50% IE usage, you’ll show up in the list below (coming soon!). It’s like a hall of fame.

There’s even an ‘Under 30’ and ‘Under 10’ section for the overachievers (sorry, mozdev.org is ineligible). So install the script and join the race.”

Wild!

Is Bill Gates the Antichrist? (Just kidding…)

Is Bill Gates the Antichrist? You decide! Bill Gates, of Microsoft fame’s full name is William Henry Gates III. By converting the letters of his name to the ASCII-values and adding his (III), you get the following:

B 66
I 73
L 76
L 76
G 71
A 65
T 84
E 69
S 83
+ 3 (for the III at the end of his full name)
————–
666 !!

Some might ask, “How did Bill Gates get so powerful?” Coincidence? Or just the beginning of mankind’s ultimate and total enslavement???

Again, before you decide, consider the following:

M S – D O S 6 . 2 1
77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54+46+50+49 = 666

W I N D O W S 9 5
87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1 = 666

Coincidence? You decide…

Linspire announces Freespire – A FREE Version!

You know that I have long said that the Linspire desktop Linux is the most “Windows-like” of the desktop Linuxes. Now, Linspire has announced a free, open… fully Open Source version of their Linspire system.

Freespire

“Freespire is a community-driven, Linux-based operating system that combines the best that free, open source software has to offer (community driven, freely distributed, open source code, etc.), but also provides users the choice of including proprietary codecs, drivers and applications as they see fit. With Freespire, the choice is yours as to what software is installed on your computer, with no limitations or restrictions placed on that choice. How you choose to maximize the performance of your computer is entirely up to you.”

This Week’s Dr. Bill Podcast – Short, but Sweet!

Dr. Bill Podcast – 33 – (04/22/06)
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Promo for the Digital Experience Podcast, Real Men Cook with Liquid Oxygen – NOT!, Geek Software of the Week: IZArc!, it handles SO MANY formats of archivers!, a video of the Robotic Chair… very cool, advancing Geek Culture!, PLEASE try Linux, it will amaze you how far Linux has come! The podcast is short this week, because the news has been slow, but join us next week for more!

Geek Software of the Week: IZArc!

As a geek… I unzip and zip a lot! Now, along comes a totally FREE, and very useful, archive tool! Check this out!

IZArc Archiver Utility

“IZArc is the ultimate archive utility supports many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more. IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support.”

So… this one does it all! I got rid of several tools and now just use IZArc! Cool!

Real Men Cook with Liquid Oxygen… NOT!

This falls under “Geek Culture!” It kinda reminds me of Tim Allen on his “show within a show” which was “Tool Time”, and the real TV show was “Home Improvement”… Tim would do crazy things to “speed up,” add hosepower, or take shortcuts… well, these guys chose to use Liquid Oxygen to speen up cleaning and firing up a charcoal grill (DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME!)

LOX in a Grill Video

“Cooking with Liquid Oxygen… A short film clip of lighting of the grill with 3 gallons of liquid oxygen. Started with 60 lbs of charcoal, and burnt up 40 lbs of it in 3 seconds. Result is a grill ready to cook in about 3 seconds, and all the old grease, etc burned off. Don’t try this at home.

WARNING: An ignition source, such as a lit cigarette or one glowing coal, must be present before pouring on the LOX. If charcoal is PRESOAKED in LOX first, an explosion will result. One briquette presoaked in LOX is approx equiv to 1 stick of dynamite.”

Dewd. These guys are crazy!

The “Dr. Bill Does Pennants” Podcast #32!

Dr. Bill Podcast – 32 – (04/16/06)
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Apologies to Scott!, Dr, Bill does “pennants” by putting the Red SOX header on the web site this week!, ISORecorder: Geek Software of the Week!, why Ethanol is good… air as fuel for cars and planes, a virus that attacks Windows and Linux – Yike!, it is time to abandon “ol’ dog operating systems” for Linux, Linux distros I recommend to newbies! (I did the Podcast Sunday because I “got away” for Easter holiday this weekend! Happy Resurrection Day!!!)

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