__/ [ Sinister Midget ] on Wednesday 31 May 2006 16:24 \__
> On 2006-05-31, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted
> something concerning:
>> __/ [ Sinister Midget ] on Wednesday 31 May 2006 07:45 \__
>>
>>> On 2006-05-31, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted
>>> something concerning:
>>>> __/ [ Sinister Midget ] on Wednesday 31 May 2006 07:15 \__
>>>>
>>>>> On 2006-05-31, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted
>>>>> something concerning:
>>>>>> Title: Office 2007 beta logs 500,000 downloads in two days
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (note: Testing, *not* purchasing. Trying to see if OpenOffice will be
>>>>>> the better choice...)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>| "I'm not so sure that I'm thrilled with the new 'ribbon' interface.
>>>>>>| It's all bubbly and shiny, but it eats up a lot of my screen space,"
>>>>>>| designer Kevin Airgid wrote on his blog.
>>>>>>|
>>>>>>| Airgid asked Microsoft to devise a way to revert the user interface
>>>>>>| to its old, more familiar form, but the software giant has indicated
>>>>>>| that it will not supply such an option.
>>>>>>| Blogger Ollie Bradley, a 16-year-old student, also had some trouble
>>>>>>| adjusting to the new user interface.
>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>
http://www.vnunet.com.nyud.net:8090/vnunet/news/2157114/office-2007-beta-logs-500
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess this means it's better because it's intuitive?
>>>>>
>>>>> Right? Hello? Does anybody have an answer? Erik? Intuitive? Yes?
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess it *could* be intuitive. But it might be hard to tell if nobody
>>>>> wants to look at it.
>>>>>
>>>>> More:
>>>>>
>>>>> Bradley was impressed with the new blogging feature in Microsoft
>>>>> Word which allows authors to post their entries directly to their
>>>>> blogs with a single click.
>>>>>
>>>>> Great. First Front Page, allowing people who know nothing to advertise
>>>>> it to the world through crappy websites. Now this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Crappy is one thing. Adverse to standards is another. Where is Larry
>>>> Qualig? He was part of the team that was responsible for this.
>>>>
>>>> The one-click blogging is not truly a feature. It is so simple to do
>>>> thorough XML-RPC interfaces. You can use your cellphone to blog using
>>>> WordPress (FOSS), for example.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Wonder what else it does/will do with a single click.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No clicks needed. Word 2002 and 2003 are vulnerable with(out) minimal
>>>> user intervention. I think that the opening of E-mail is not a necessity
>>>> either. Speaking of which, a proof-of-concept virus exploiting
>>>> StarOffice macros was unveiled yesterday. That's just not how one builds
>>>> a bridge.
>>>
>>> StarOffice? On Winders alone. or do others get to join in the fun for a
>>> change?
>>
>> Sadly, no.
>>
>> http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/218
>>
>> ,----[ Snippet ]
>>| Stardust.A's image loading functionality should work on any
>>| platform--Windows, Mac or Linux--on which OpenOffice and StarOffice run.
>> `----
>>
>> I tracked this down after reading:
>>
>> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,125917,00.asp
>>
http://www.sysadmin.it/eng/news/news.asp?id=1585&titolo=Proof%20of%20Concept%20Virus%20for%20StarOffice%20Appears
>>
>> This could also affect OpenOffice.
>
> I guess, then, this makes the case others have tried to make that it
> doesn't matter if users run as root.
Oh, definitely. The notion is glaringly obvious. If you log in as root, you
work in a mine field. The prompts and wallpaper tell you this in SuSE (or
SUSE, according to Novell).
Best wishes,
Roy
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