Recently I did a post on the release of version 5 of Crossover Office which is a commercially supported variation of the wine project. In fact, it’s very similar, the only exceptions I know of are the neater installer for software and paid support. Anyway, I’ve got a project I’ve been working on that I’ve used cxoffice quite a bit in to run a particular application that isn’t directly available on linux (there are alternatives but none that work exactly the same way… more on that in a future post…) Anyway, it got me thinking and I visited the wine site and found that 0.9.1 has now been released. I checked the wine version on my desktop and decided to upgrade to the newest plain vanilla wine release and see how well it does….
Category: Software
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Apple iTunes vulnerability on Windows
eEye has discovered a remotely expoitable security vulnerability in Apple’s iTunes software. It affects iTunes 6 and prior and the current security updates (released yesterday) do not address the issue. News.com has coverage as well. Earlier they reported that it affected “all operating systems”, however now they are saying that it’s only been found on Windows systems using iTunes.
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Firefox 1.5 RC3
News is coming out that Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC3 is now available. There’s coverage at mozillazine.org. From the comments there may be a few bugs to work out still, although I’ve just skimmed. I’m not sure if those comments are from people that have tried RC3, or are asking if a bug has been fixed since RC2.
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Microsoft working to ensure Windows Validation works with Firefox
I’ve got to say, I’m impressed that this is happening. From the IEblog…
The core of my team’s job is to make IE7 and Windows Vista so compelling so that people choose our products. The people who work on Windows want you to have a good experience, whether you use IE or not – for example, Windows Media Player has a Firefox plugin. I also recently got a chance to play with a new Firefox plugin that simplifies and improves the Windows validation process on that browser – since, as I said to Scoble a long time ago, it would be arrogant for the people working on a product not to use other products in that category.
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tightVNC Windows 1.2.9 installer
Temporary Quick download link for tightvnc-1.2.9 installer for windows. Use the first link to download the copy I’ve mirrored for the moment, or try downloading from www.tightvnc.com if there are any troubles with this.
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Text adventure Games still around
You are in a small hallway, there are doors to the North and West….
The Wall Street Journal Online has an article about the continued existence of the text adventure games. You know the genre, before the advent of 3d graphics, role playing games were basically interactive novels of a sort. Read, then type “look north” or something, “open door” “go north”, etc… and be presented with more text.
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VNC or Tightvnc for remote pc access
I was surprised to do a search and find that I haven’t mentioned tightvnc before (or even merely VNC as a useful tool.) Ok – here’s the scenario, you need a way to get remote pc access, or remotely view a desktop, maybe it’s a Windows machine and you’re using a Mac? Or Maybe it’s a Mac and you have a linux desktop? Or a Linux server from a Windows machine? Most of the time in the Windows to Windows remote control area the choice becomes either Remote Desktop, or PCAnywhere. There are other options though. One that I’m particularly found of is TightVNC, which is an implementation of the VNC protocol (VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing).
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Part 2 of the Mandrake or Mandriva 2006 review
I’m still not used to the name Mandriva, Mandrake is just what I remember… anyway, mandrake.tips.4.free.fr has the second part of their mandriva 2006 review up. It sounds as though in the last week the iso’s of the free edition are now publicly available as well. This time around special attention is paid to hardware support, and multimedia capabilites focusing on image handling/editing software.
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Winrar and rar updated to patch vulnerabilities
Incidents.org is reporting on the release of a new version of winrar and rar (3.51) to address security issues discovered by secunia.
As always if you use it, go get the update.