Yet another worm attacking Microsoft boxes is on the loose (see CERT). This is the second vulnerability in the past week or so targeting the NetBIOS ports. At the very least, block TCP/UDP ports 135,139 and 445 at the firewall. I sure do. Good thing, last time I checked the logs, I was blocking from 10 to 20 requests every second or two.
PHP Creeping Up Within Yahoo
From a comment on this post on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog…
“Well, part of Yahoo will likely never run PHP. But there seems to be slow but steady movement away from our home-grown stuff to PHP. It’s just a matter of time…”
The Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good
Voltaire may have said it first, but I’ve at least agreed with the phrase “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” DKR brings it up again with Gorilla Web Tip Number Five DKR Productions - Freelance Web Design” href=”http://www.7nights.com/dkrprod/gwt_five.php”>
The Myth of Perfect Web Design.
“Hey, it’s not perfect, but it’s good, and that’s better than most.”
Umami Design
Switching to Mozilla
Keith Robinson offers a few, now familiar reasons to switch to Mozilla .
“These are all great reasons, and should be enough to convince you to try Mozilla. However, the most important reason in my mind, is that Mozilla is a live product. What I mean by that is that it’s being worked on as we speak and will continue to improve as time goes on.”
Get Well Maya
This is an old photo of Mary’s cat Maya, who is quite ill. Any extra good karma is appreciated.
Alertbox: Information Pollution
Jakob is rightfully concerned about the growing problem of information pollution. As it applies to web sites, the best advice given is this… “If users don’t need it, don’t write it.”
MozPHP
“MozPHP is a Mozilla PHP integration package. With MozPHP you can execute PHP scripts in Mozilla directly without the need for a local HTTP server”
The Most Awful Smell in the World…
There are many things that smell bad, but few carry more awful meaning than the smell of cigarette smoke on your 14 year old daughter’s breath.
New Book on the Reading List
David Foster Wallace: Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
“One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math’s most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical nature of infinity.”
I’ve got a headache already.