If you have been trying to reach me lately, as I know many have, my email has just changed... simply replace arrabeta.com by kemmou.com or use the comments onthis entry to reach me ...

2/28/2004 6:06:14 AM UTC    Comments [11] 

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2/25/2004 1:59:54 PM UTC    Comments [20] 

Once again, virus makers try use Microsoft identity to spead their stuff ...

Take a close look at the logo (lacks the cut on the "O" and the connecting line between the "O" and the "S") -- they could do better ...

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Microsoft Customer this is the latest version of security update, the "February 2004, Cumulative Patch" update which resolves all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express as well as three new vulnerabilities. Install now to help protect your computer from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow an malicious user to run code on your computer. This update includes the functionality of all previously released patches.

System requirements	Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP
This update applies to	MS Internet Explorer, version 4.01 and later MS Outlook, version 8.00 and later MS Outlook Express, version 4.01 and later
Recommendation	Customers should install the patch at the earliest opportunity.
How to install	Run attached file. Choose Yes on displayed dialog box.
How to use	You don't need to do anything after installing this item.

Off course, the attached file is a W32.Swen.A@mm virus ... which is not even new ...

Off course this virus is speading because of our use of privileged accounts (the virus writes to the registry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion  and many of its subkeys ... wich only an administrator can do ...

I had earlier today a kind of heated exchange in a newsgroup about setting the aspnet_wp to use the "System" account ... we really should be doing better than that ...

Just to make sure you understand the message : MICROSOFT NEVER SENDS UPDATES BY EMAIL... NOR SHOULD EVER ANY SENSIBLE VENDOR DO...

2/24/2004 3:39:59 AM UTC    Comments [5] 

I really like it, but I hate Red Hat...

2/15/2004 1:36:50 AM UTC    Comments [0] 

    Although I had followed the mono project (Ximian's implementation of the CLI), and even talked about it in short words many times, I finally made my mind to really see it...

    Actually, I didn't just think I should do it, but it was in preparation for a talk that Youness Habibi will do for the Morocco .Net User Group, and I had promised to assist him (as if I had any idea about it)...

   It was quite an experience, and actually we were helped by Mr. Lebbadi of Atrait for compiling and configuring mono(A nice Linux guy, who didn't even say anything harsh to me - except mybe saying something in this line : are you as open to others as Microsoft). That help was crucial, for neither I nor Youness had ever really touched a Linux beyond the user interface and maybe some "vi"...

   Well, how happy we were when the hello world "mono style" worked and we had that "mono:: is alive and well..." on the screen. That was only few minutes after Morocco's victory in the mid-final African Soccer Cup, and Casablanca was going wild ... Still, we almost topped the cround's noise when we were rejoicing after we copied the .exe to windows and it worked...

   Tomorrow, we are going to start doing some serious tests on mono : (Data, Web Wervices, WebForms, WinForms...)... Long live the world of portable .Net IL ...

2/12/2004 3:35:33 AM UTC    Comments [0]