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From: Jim on 19 Jan 2010 01:55 James Taylor <usenet(a)oakseed.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > > AND: I want something small and efficient and unobtrusive for playing > > the radio. Why do they insist on giving you a bloody picture when you > > ask for a radio stream? > > Exactly. Did you try the link I posted? Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK Please help save Bletchley Park - sign the petition for Government funding at: (open to UK residents and ex.pats) http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BletchleyPark/ Thank you.
From: James Taylor on 19 Jan 2010 02:08 Jim wrote: > Did you try the link I posted? Yes, and in fact I used to use that BBCRadio widget regularly back when I used Mac OS X as my main platform. I'm running Ubuntu on this netbook because Apple don't allow Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, and anyway I prefer a more secure system than Mac OS X would be. -- James Taylor
From: James Taylor on 19 Jan 2010 02:27 Jim wrote: > James Taylor wrote: > >> There's a new vulnerability discovered in Adobe software almost every week! > > According to the recent Security Now podcast (can't remember the number > but it's the 2hr one) Episode 231: <http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-231.htm> About a sixth of the way down. > Adobe are expected to surpass Microsoft in terms > of targetted/exploited vulnerabilities in 2010. > I'd say they may already have done so. It's is easier to trick someone into opening a PDF attachment then click a malicious link, so I tend to agree. With a link, the attacker might have got a foothold in some random small website (eg. www.flowerpots.ca) and now they have to spoof the identity of one of your usual email contacts (not difficult in itself) but also have a plausible reason why that person would wish you to visit www.flowerpots.ca/admin/0wn3d.php With a PDF they can claim it's anything they want, and you've got to open it to see. How would you react to an email from Amazon saying that your order is on its way, please check the delivery details in the attached PDF? I think I'd be asking myself if I'd had ordered anything recently, and I'd have to open the PDF to see whether they'd simply got the wrong person and which address these books were being sent to. > What worries me slightly is: how long before something nasty is found in > AIR that could be triggered through something like Tweetdeck (like our > old friend, the malformed image). AIR and Tweetdeck are cross-platform. Good point. Fortunately, the exploit code would most likely need to run native code from a buffer overflow or whatever, and this would only work on the correct processor architecture. Oh, I've just remembered, Macs are Intel now aren't they, so the exploit code only needs to check its own environment and act accordingly. It could indeed be cross platform. -- James Taylor
From: Dorian Gray on 19 Jan 2010 02:31 In article <1jcjrw0.fu1ohxh99vkmN%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: > > Is your experience the same, or not? > > Not the same as that, no. I was going by the '5 pages wide' bit. And it > certainly does that in Safari 4.0.4, but not in Firefox. Hey Peter, I've just worked out that you're confusing this thread with another thread where someone else was talking about a badly written web site with frames giving '5 pages wide' on Safari... I never said anything like that...
From: Woody on 19 Jan 2010 03:18
James Taylor <usenet(a)oakseed.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > With a PDF they can claim it's anything they want, and you've got to > open it to see. How would you react to an email from Amazon saying that > your order is on its way, please check the delivery details in the > attached PDF? I think I'd be asking myself if I'd had ordered anything > recently, and I'd have to open the PDF to see whether they'd simply got > the wrong person and which address these books were being sent to. Would you really? I get loads of those, and have for ages (not from amazon, I don't do business with them). It is quite common in my mail to get a 'your order with <blah> - check the attachment' emails. -- Woody www.alienrat.com |