This is an ‘html-only’ version of Scribblings with no database behind it. This means it is not possible to search it. I am working on a new version with which I am hoping to eventually put back into the main site. The new version is here but please note that there is no link directly back to the main site.
Saturday, 3rd July 2004
Tickled pink
I have been tickled pink by the recent security alert for Internet Explorer (PC version) which led to a number of respected organisations (including some close to the US government) recommending that people should seek out alternative browsers such as Firefox or Opera.
What tickled me was not that there was yet another security problem with IE but that it involved a combination of IE and Microsoft’s webserver (IIS). Now, the argument often made about why there are no viruses for Mac OS X is that it isn’t worth targetting OS X machines because there aren’t so many of them (to some extent this is true of course). However, IIS is not the most common web server so I find it odd that the attackers chose to hack IIS instead of the open source Apache which a majority of sites run on.
This is possibly an entirely spurious line of thought but I thought it interesting nonetheless.
An apology
Since moving the site to a new server Scribblings is not as easy to find your way around as it used to be. It used to depend on a script and a database on the server but is currently served as ‘flat html’.
I have some ideas about how to make it a bit easier but they depend on writing another script. I hope to get around to it ‘eventually’.
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