Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

Buffer overflow errors are not just Microsoft's problem. Nor is it just a Windows issue. News.com today reports that IBM's DB2 Database program for Linux has an easy to exploit buffer overflow vulnerability that lets anyone get root access to the entire data store. Yeah, ok the RPC issue in Windows was a big deal but MSBlaster was only a nuisance. Slammer was the same way... it flooded ports and brought databases offline, but the sensitive information inside was not compromised.

... but I though you guys would get a kick out of this.

Scoble points us to a report on MSNBC that says another MSBlaster-like virus has been released into the wild. It tries to exploit the vulnerability I duscussed in last week's Patch Day Review. If you have not patched yet, you have less than 48 hours before this one will hit in force. You would be well advised to stop what you are doing and patch right now. PLEASE, for all of us.

Before I get slammed for racism here, let me just say that the point I was trying to make in this post not to say that hating Microsoft is akin to racism.  The point WAS, however, to quote Chris Rock in Dogma, “You can change an idea, it's a whole lot harder to change a belief.” Some people will go to the grave thinking that anyone who works at Microsft should rot in hell. (Not me.) Just like some people will go to the grave thinking that blonde haired, blue eyed white people should be the only ones allowed to live free (ALSO not me). Because it is a belief that Microsoft sucks, is bad, or evil, that these people hold. And they will likely hold onto it at all costs, because for them, it validates their reality.

Datagrid Girl points us to a site called microsuck.com that talks about, well, why Microsoft sucks. It looks a lot like Microsoft's old site, which is kinda funny. It also whines about why Microsoft is bad and portrays the typical childish rant about backwards compatibility, slams MS for wanting to be compensated for illegal software copies, et. al. And what's better, the site shows it's true childishness right in the title tag of the site. Woo hoo. Let the misconceptions roll.

“Word has it that I was next in line to become one of those little Office Assistant thingies..... but I try not to spend my time thinking about 'what-ifs'.“ Red vs. Blue [via Scoble]

Woo hoo. Here is my sixth article on Builder.com. Basically, it's how to idiot-proof your assembly versioning when you target different versions of the Framework.