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Microsoft has announced that it will not fix a vulnerability in Windows 98 Explorer. It claims that it would require a major rewrite of explorer, which would not assure that other applications will still be working.

We are in IT to serve people. So we need to communicate in a good way, so people will understand what we mean.

Found an interesting link: 10 worst ways to deal with end users. 

I found an intersting link to test your email security. It sends you a couple of emails containing fake virusses. In this way you can see how your email server is configured, and if your mailclient settings are ok.

Have you seen this link? It is a post on slahdot, which explains that Ubuntu stores the password of the sudo-er plaintext in a file when he asks a couple of questions during install.

I found a company which makes it easy for you to see if you can trust a site you are visiting. The folowing link installs a plugin (IE/FF) which warns you if the site is indexed in MSN/Google/Yahoo as spyware source.

I found two websites which explain what the power of Google is:

Ihackstuff
Ethical hacker
 

These pages show you the possibilities of an attacker to look through your website.

I have Ubuntu installed on two systems, a couple of weeks ago. I 've heard a lot of good comments, and enough people were very glad with it. But I am NOT. I think that this model does not work and we should look to another distribution.

In the software development are two stages you do, before you start actually typing any character:
1. Find out if the software already exists.
1b. Are there possibilities to change this?
2. Find out if the main parts of your software are already written.