Posts tagged with: bug

Links of interest for 26 Sep 2009 - 14 Oct 2009: xkcd - Static - Hee hee hee Guest Account Bug in Snow Leopard Causes Data Loss - Ooops. Just as well I disabled this account a long time ago. MySQL ex-CEO tells EU to let Oracle buy Sun - Some very valid points here. Lets hope the EU listens and pulls finger. Their heel dragging is causing more harm than the acquisition would. Is cloud computing the Hotel California of tech? - Good point. I've not embraced "cloud computing" in this sense as I don't really need it, but... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 20 Jul 2009 - 15 Aug 2009: HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment - This is a brilliant display of some of the cool things you can do in HTML5 (Requires a browser that supports HTML5 like Firefox 3.5) How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World' - Oooops. Just as well I don't have an iPhone. Why does 1.6 beat 4.7? - BestPerf - People always forget the details, and it's often these details that competitors deliberately leave out too. Triple-Parity RAID-Z : Adam Leventhal's Weblog - ZFS has just got triple-parity RAID-Z support. Why? Alan... Continue reading ►

Hot off the OpenSolaris announcement alias: Don't use Solaris Express Community Edition build 102 until further notice. From the email: Due to the following bug, I have removed build 102 from the Download page. 6771840 zpool online on ZFS root can panic system It apparently may cause data corruption and may have been implicated in damage to one or more systems that have upgraded to build 102 or beyond. Ooops. I've checked and I can confirm build 102 has been removed and it's back to hosting the build 101 download, so the only people this is likely to affect are ... Continue reading ►

Well, I'm on my way to contributing to Habari and have just submitted my first defect ticket (#332 - Monolith's "Manage %s" doesn't show draft pages or entries) and even supplied a patch containing a possible fix.

Chapin Information Services (CIS) have discovered quite a major flaw in the way Firefox's Password Manager automatically populates username and password fields on a web form. Whilst this is a major time saver, it does however allow phishers to gather usernames and passwords without you actually knowing it, especially on weblogs and forums which allow posters to input HTML. Essentially, they would just create a hidden form that Firefox would automatically populate with your username and password for that site and then submit it to the phisher's server when you click a link or hit enter. This doesn't use cross site scripting (XSS) methods either as it's essentially gathering passwords for the site you're actually visiting (hence most phishing detectors won't pick this up). Continue reading ►

Someone's got a good sense of humour. How's this for a bug synopsis: "It's capitalized "IPsec", damnit!".