I was just looking at the IE vulnerabilities vis-a-vis Firefox compiled by Secunia. Before going further you have to understand that IE has been much longer than Firefox and hence have been more extensively looked at for vulnerabilities.
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Contents

• NailGun Introduction
• Rationale for Porting
• Compiler choice: MinGW versus CygWin
• Mini Porting guide from Linux to Windows (networking focussed)
• Testing
• Code & Executable Download
• Suggestions for improving NailGun

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I have posted the MSN Search Beta Review at http://www.taragana.com/downloads/Review.htm.

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For people who were forced to switch over from windows to Linux/Unix and who still miss their good 'ol windows, you can experience it again at http://www.saunalahti.fi/~jylppy69/swf/windows_rg.swf

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After 8 months I restarted by old faithful PC with a new internet provider (Reliance). I found that I can access websites using their IP address, yet cannot access them using their name like www.yahoo.com. Interestingly nslookup worked giving me the proper IP address!
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I would like to point to a very readable and thoughtful article - How Microsoft lost the API war.

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Update: Mozilla group of browsers including Firefox now has proper support for applets. This post is no longer relevant.

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A wedding in hell?

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To day while going through javablogs, I came across an interesting article on .NET side of story from an ex-java (?) junkie - I miss Java already.. :: http://www.vibhu.info :: Be different...

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I want to demonstrate two things. First a simple way to create hyperlink without using the standard A tag with HREF attribute. This works like a normal tag and looks the same. Yet it uses CSS & javascript event handlers to achieve the same effect using a span tag. This makes it potentially immune to crawling by robots.

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