My virus checker reported a Javascript Trojan in:
\Program Files\Evrsoft\1st Page 2000\IScripts\Buttons\Six buttons from hell.izs
This is a javascript that scripts a button in the, otherwise excellent, Evrsoft 1st Page 2000 HTML editor.
Trendmicro's Pc-cillin says: "This JavaScript (JS) Trojan repeatedly opens Windows on an infected system so that it eats up memory and causes the infected system?s browser to crash."
Other people have discovered it too and are talking about it here: Virus - js.windowbomb
I'm thinking of signing up for myservlethosting.com Servlet hosting. I have some fun projects that would like to try out but Pair does not support Java.
This book was reccomended as close what we have been doing with Java for the last couple of years Designing Enterprise Applications with the JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, Second Edition. The PDF is downloadable, but at 440 pages I'm going to have to get the book.
I wish there was a check USB connectable PDF reader tablet. It doesn't have to come with a PIM, I just want to read PDFs on the train!!
This morning I needed to connect securly from my Windows 2000 machine to a Windows 2000 machine behind a remote firewall.
I needed to run ssh on the command line so I downloaded a VNC package that includes it: ""VNC with ssh".
I needed an X-Server so I downloaded Win32-XFree,"an Open Source GDI/DirectX based X-server for Windows 9x/NT Operating Systems built on top of X11R6.5.1. ".
To unpack it I had to use bunzip2 from my Cygwin installation after which I edited the startx.bat batch file and fixed up the paths and screen resolution and started it up.
Then from the VNC folder, I ran the ssh command:
ssh -R6011:localhost:6000 -l name xxx.172.39.19
and logged into the remote machine.
On the remote machine I ran
export DISPLAY=localhost:11
to tell applications to send the X-Windows output to port 6011. This maps to port 6000 on my machine which is running the X-Server and so when I run a command like xclock on the far machine it shows up locally on my X-Server.
Now here's the weird part, on the remote machine I run
vncviewer xxx.168.103.34:0
which runs the vncviewer on the remote machine which displays a windows 2000 session which is running on yet another machine on my local X-Server desktop.
My question to my friendly sysadmin (i.e Sajjad) is why can't I run the VNC view locally and tunnel through the linux machine connect to the remote windows 2000 machine's vncserver. He says it's more complicated to do this but I don't know enough argue with him right now.
References: Freeware SSH and SCP for Windows 9x, NT, ME, 2000 and XP
"Web Start" is yet another technology for which I would, at least, like to say, "I have run the "Hello World" example".
I became interested in DocBook after seeing that Dive Into Python was available in so many formats.
From the Docbook Wiki
DocBook enables you to author and store document content in a presentation-neutral form that captures the logical structure of the content. Using free tools along with the DocBookStylesheets from the DocBookOpenRepository and related resources, you can transform, format, and publish your content as HTML pages and PDF files, and in many other formats, including Microsoft HTMLHelp, UNIX man pages, JavaHelp, TeX, TeXinfo, and RTF.
There's even an O'Reilly Docbook book with a picture of a ...duck on the front. O'Reilly's Docbook book is online too.
References: http://docbook.org/
Notes: I wonder how well DocBook is suited for Japanese text?
DomAPI is an application-centric development environment targeted at version 5.0 or better browsers running on Windows, MacOS and Linux. Supported browsers include Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Mozilla.