One star fades, another star rises
Friday, June 30th, 2006OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 released, MS-Office 2007 delayed
Archive for June, 2006
Dinosaurs show no sign of extinction
Monday, June 26th, 2006Microsoft may brand them ‘dinosaurs’, but users of older versions of MS-Office are resisting appeals for them to upgrade
Conference Fever
Sunday, June 18th, 2006OOoCon 2006 is looking good
This is an ex-virus
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006OpenOffice.org Engineering’s report on the much reported StarOffice/OpenOffice.org virus:
It doesn’t start When the file is loaded, the user is asked if to enable macros from this document. Even if the user choose “yes”, there is no autostart of any macro.
It doesn’t do anything special When the user manually starts the macro, the only thing that [...]
The anti-virus game
Friday, June 2nd, 2006The term computer virus has entered the popular vocabulary, and indeed, there are many analogies between computer viruses and ‘real’ viruses. Well-written viruses spread rapidly, can cause considerable damage, can be hard to eradicate, often escape detection until too late, and some can even evolve a bit as they go along.
I’m beginning to think that [...]
