Thanks PUC_Snakeman for alerting us to these updates.
Office didn't escape the Microsoft Windows Security Summary for February 2005, today also saw 3 new updates for Office 2003. So if you have a copy of Office 2003 get over to OfficeUpdate and get these patches installed, (or selectively, depending if you need the Turkish Lira update).
The first update allows Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 to display the value of the Turkish Lira in both the old and the new Lira formats. The second increases the reliability of Smart Tags by placing additional restrictions on the ability to associate web sites with Smart Tag actions. Finally this optional update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail.
View: Turkish Lira Format - Update KB887980
View: Smart Tag - Update KB885828
View: Junk Mail Filter - Update KB891067
View: Microsoft Office Update
Office didn't escape the Microsoft Windows Security Summary for February 2005, today also saw 3 new updates for Office 2003. So if you have a copy of Office 2003 get over to OfficeUpdate and get these patches installed, (or selectively, depending if you need the Turkish Lira update).
The first update allows Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 to display the value of the Turkish Lira in both the old and the new Lira formats. The second increases the reliability of Smart Tags by placing additional restrictions on the ability to associate web sites with Smart Tag actions. Finally this optional update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail.
View: Turkish Lira Format - Update KB887980 View: Smart Tag - Update KB885828 View: Junk Mail Filter - Update KB891067 View: Microsoft Office Update
Firstly, could you tell us about yourself, your history?
I've been into recreational mathematics most of my life, and worked in software startups for a while after dropping out of college before starting work on BitTorrent.
Tell us about BitTorrent- what was the inspiration? What were you trying to achieve with the protocol?
I had a lot of experience working on networking protocols, and was interested in exploring what I thought were the reasonable problems to work on. My main goal was to make it cheap to distribute large, popular files, which I of course succeeded in doing.
BitTorrent, it was recently suggested, was carrying as much as 30% of the webs traffic; how did you re-act to this news?!
I don't have any visceral concept of how much that bandwidth that really is, so it's mostly just surreal.
Moving onto BitTorrent uses at the moment - it'd be hard to ignore the arguably most common use of the protocol - piracy. How do you feel about this? Did you think about the potential for 'abuse' when you conceived the protocol?
Given the history of such tools, it's fairly obvious that the general public has a strong interest in piracy.
A group have created a new program called eXeem which appears to solve one of the problems BitTorrent has- that off tracking torrents. Have you seen the program, and if so, what do you think of it?
It's yet another napster/kazaa/edonkey/hotline/whatever. BitTorrent usage is doing quite well without it.
Moving on, the protocol has clearly many legitimate uses; have you seen any especially unique implementations?
They're all just pushing around bits, which is about all I care about.
How do you think companies are going to deal with bandwidth in years to come - do you think it will be something along the lines of bit torrent, or something radically different?
Peer to peer as an approach is here to stay.
What's cool technology wise in the Cohen house hold at the moment? What'd be your pick for the "next big thing"?
I've also been working on the Codeville version control system and designing twisty puzzles. I don't know what the next big thing is.
Finally, what does the future hold for yourself?! What are you working on at the moment?
I'm continuing to work on BitTorrent.
Nothing is forcing you to install every single update or patch. I don't install updates from Outlook 2003, because I decided not to install it.
In the Office Update website, you simply not choose the Junk Mail Filter update to be installed. Just install the Smart Tag update. Simple as that.
Microsoft should be forced to make Office open source, so ALL of us Turkish people can fire up our compilers, jump right into millions of lines of code, and fix it ourselves! And Microsoft should be forced to support us later when our bank accounts don't balance because Abdullah hasn't quite learned == vs. = in C++ yet.
OpenOffice.org released their YTL support over 2 months ago! Any ordinary end-user could simply go and find the right file to download for 1.9 (beta 2.0) Snapshot Build m62 or later. Grandma is sure to know how to look for "native Win32Intel" in the filename so that she doesn't spend years downloading Sparc binaries, source code tarballs, etc. It's EASY!!
...yes, I'm kidding... What's a Lira?
Security Update for Office XP (KB873352)
Security Update for SharePoint Team Services (KB890829)
Update for Office 2003 (KB88582
Update for Office 2003 (KB887980)
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