A interesting blog from Jeff Jones -
February 28th marked 90 days that Windows Vista had been available to business customers. December brought the first public disclosure of a vulnerability and February brought the first Security Bulletin affecting Windows Vista. Has it been a good or a bad 90 days for security vulnerabilities?
I have analyzed the vulnerability disclosures and fixes for Windows Vista and examined the results in the context of its predecessor, Windows XP, along with several other modern workstation operating systems including Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novell and Apple products to try and answer that question.
For the full details, or to print the report, you can download the report.
For those that only want the executive summary, here is a key chart that shows the publicly disclosed vulnerabilities during the first 90 days of availability, broken down by vulns fixed and vulns unfixed. Many have commented on previous studies that you can’t get a full picture by just looking at issues fixed, so I worked to include disclosed, but unfixed issues to try and present a more comprehensive view .
The results of the analysis show that Windows Vista has an improved security vulnerability profile over its predecessor and a significantly better profile relative to comparable modern competitive operating systems
Full Article Link Here
Very interesting news for all you Microsoft Haters!
-B-rad
So this morning i spent about 30 min or so playing around with Macromedia Flash Professional 8. In that 30 min I created a basic image flash. Its kinda cool and I’m looking forward in playing more with the software to see what I can create. This particular flash file I created for the sponsers section on The Motorcycle Ride For The Mind website……
Check it out!
http://www.motorcyclerideforthemind.com/images/sponsers-v1.swf
-B-rad
So i decided that i was going to boycott subway today because they really pissed me off. I went there for lunch today with my mom and i ordered my usually veggie sub. Well today they informed me that the veggie sub no longer comes with cheese as does EVERY other sub on their menu, and that if i still wanted cheese it would be an additional $.30. Come on now…..how ridiculous!!!! Just the veggie sub doesn’t get cheese, this seems a little like discrimination for my poor veggies. And i know the $.30 wont break the bank (although it could) its the point of it! So i e-mailed them a nasty comment about what they could do with their new policies and vowed not to go there again until they change it. I guess i better get used to Quiznos!!!!!
Sarah
This last weekend I spent much of my time recreating the Ride for the Mind website. MotorCycle Ride for the Mind was Organized and created by my family and friends to raise money for the aid and research of Alzheimer’s disease. I was asked to take over the website awhile back here and when the domain was transferred to my name the content was removed. After trying to contact the old site owner seeing if i could get a copy of the sites content and not hearing any response, i figured i’d better start recreating/redesigning the site. Most of the day Saturday was spent creating multiple templates (Three to be exact) and then asking for peoples opinions on which template looked the best. Once i had the template that others and myself liked i started to put some content on the site. I purchased a years worth of hosting and published what i had. The site is now up and working although there isn’t much content on the site yet. I have sent off the info to the Organizers asking for content that they want me to place up on the site and will wait to hear back.
Any ways check it out….. There isn’t much content on the site yet except for ride photos from 2006 along with a couple of videos……
www.motorcyclerideforthemind.com
B-rad
Kyle sent me a link to this site and its a pretty cool widget. Its the best baby countdown ticker I’ve seen so far…
check it out!
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/baby-ticker
Snow + Snow + more Snow = a very happy B-rad! After a very dry winter in central MN we finally are getting dumped on. over the past week or two we’ve accumulated around 2 feet of snow. Me being a snowmobiler I’m totally loving it! I don’t even know why I’m on the Internet now and not out on the sled. I finally got a reminder on why I love living in MN. SNOW!!!!
B-rad
Let’s see, on this day of March 1st 2007 what would be big news…… Perhaps it would be the fact that we are getting hit with one of the bigger snow storms on record? Maybe that work closed at 12:30Pm due to the snow storm? Or is it that it’s the first day in a long time that the dogs have stayed in the yard all night like good dogs?
I’m going to have to say it is none of the above! I think the biggest news of my day today would have to be that I for the first time ever got to feel my baby kick. All I have to say is that it was freaking awesome. Sarah has been feeling it for some time now and I find myself holding my hand over her stomach waiting for something…. anything…. but nothing ever happens. Today Sarah has been worried because she hadn’t felt the baby move all day….. then tonight she said she felt it but she could also feel it on the outside. I had to check it out. Within a matter of minutes I felt a huge kick. Or was it a headbutt? Not sure but it was really cool.
B-rad