The Reid Report, which seems to be one of the canniest Florida poliblogs, asks What is he thinking? How Bud Chiles is knifing Alex Sink:
Lawton “Bud” Chiles' run for governor is good for precisely one thing: screwing Alex Sink.
<pedantry>While I find The Reid Report's political analysis admirable, I wish to register a protest to the use of an apostrophe without an “s” to indicate a singular possessive for names happening to end in an “s”.</pedantry>
At Scrivener's Error, C.E. Petit rants about an attempt by John Wiley & Sons (a publisher) to trick writers into accepting unfavorable contract changes.
Back in the day, Scrivener's Error used to be impossible to read due to weird colors. Now it looks nice. And I like a bit of a rant now and then. Don't neglect footnote two.
Update (6/14): It gets better.
He titles it Words fail, but tags it “gif, hell, youtube”.
'nuff said.
A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating systems. This vulnerability (CVE-2010-1297) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild against both Adobe Flash Player, and Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
So says Adobe's Security Advisory for Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat. There's a Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate available that Adobe says “is confirmed not vulnerable”.
This is the advice (for Windows) Adobe Reader and Acrobat:
Deleting, renaming, or removing access to the authplay.dll file that ships with Adobe Reader 9.x and Acrobat 9.x mitigates the threat for those products, but users will experience a non-exploitable crash or error message when opening a PDF file that contains SWF content.
The authplay.dll that ships with Adobe Reader 9.x and Acrobat 9.x for Windows is typically located at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\authplay.dll for Adobe Reader or C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat\authplay.dll for Acrobat.
The real fix is some ways away:
We expect to provide an update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.3.2 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX by June 29, 2010.
Then again, I can't recall if I've ever gone to a legitimate .pdf file that had SFW content embedded in it, so I guess I wouldn't miss it.
The librarysearch.org plugin for the Miami-Dade Public Library System no longer works, as a result of the MDPLS's (somewhat imperfect) upgrade of its library catalog.
I've put in a request for an upgrade. Here's hoping someone is paying attention.
Previous relevant item: Search Plugins for Miami-Dade Public Library.
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