XP a look back on Critical Commentary : Weblog

November 13th, 2004 I would like to point you to a very thoughtful blog entry on the current state of UDDI at Loosely Coupled Weblog A very critical observation in The Atom End Game on the role of standards body - they should only be defining standards. Their job is to tabulate what works and what doesn't.

July 5th, 2005 Ben Galbraith has created an innovative website with *nix shell theme. He follows the *nix everywhere.

July 8th, 2005 After recent reports of several critical security vulnerabilities of PHP based software. I decided to take a closer look at the current state of security with PHP based products.

May 12th, 2005 A discussion on the update and how to install it.

June 24th, 2006 What would happen if a giant meteor collided with earth? Wonder no more. Here is a Japanese video simulating the events in detail.

April 1st, 2005 A new set of highly critical flaws has been discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Outlook programs, according to research company eEye Digital Security. The vulnerabilities allow for remote code execution with no actions from the computer user, eEye said.

November 16th, 2005 This blog displays statistics on the right-sidebar (bottom) like - There are currently #### posts and #### comments in this weblog. The data is obviously dynamic.

December 18th, 2005 A critical vulnerability, found in some versions of Apple's popular iTunes software, could enable attackers to remotely take over a user's computer, according to a warning issued by eEye. This flaw existed on the earlier version of iTunes 6 for Windows and was not addressed by the latest security update.

February 15th, 2004 Often the popular listings of javablogs appeared suspect to me as many times I could see the same listings on top for days, whereas newer listings with higher view count didn't make the list. However it was just a feeling from reading entries from both start page and most popular page.

March 6th, 2005 Here are my code of ethics as a blogger: Be truthful Research well before writing informative posts I do very infrequently edit a comment(two so far) to remove gratuitous offensive terms. I personally don't use them nor would I like them on my weblog.

May 16th, 2006 Ten commandments for computer security: Thy shall create strong passwords Thy shall use good antivirus software Windows users shall regularly update critical updates Thy shall download online forms after verifying URL https:// or forms with lock icons Thy shall use secure shell (ssh or sftp) for file transfers Thy shall not open unnecessary emails Thy shall regularly back up important files Thy shall set a password protected screen saver to activate after 10-15 minutes Thy shall shutdown thine computer at night Thy shall schedule monthly scanning of hard disk Heavily modified from BSNL list (by email).

December 14th, 2004 Occassionally Google Desktop Search contacts internet, even when I am not using it. This makes me nervous.

January 5th, 2006 I haven't taken the decision lightly. After due process and due consideration of all factors I decided I am going to shun all established Java frameworks and go back to basics for my next project.

February 25th, 2005 I am so happy! Now we have an expression language to create an expression language! Next we need an expl (my shortened form of expression language) to create an expl to create an expl ... ad-infinitum.

September 9th, 2008 Vodafone Group Plc (www.vodafone.it) is arguably the world's leading mobile telecommunications company, with a significant presence in Europe, the Middle East, India, Africa, Asia Pacific and the United States through the Company's subsidiary undertakings, joint ventures, associated undertakings and investments. Vodafone has chosen FioranoMQ, Java Messaging server, for a mission-critical system delivering over 2500 messages / sec.