People living on the “bleeding edge” always like to have the latest and the greatest versions of the software they use. But this can be really dangerous, especially when using the Sun JVM plugin to Internet Explorer. This I would learn the hard way.
For the past one week, I’ve been trying to understand why a certain applet wouldn’t behave. It worked well at times, and at times it was such a bitch. Nasty bug fixes by Sun turned out to be the cause of my sorrow.
Downgrading from 1.4.2_06 to 1.4.2_04 solved most of my problems. But it took me a while to figure that out on my own. Turns out there is a lot more to Java applets that I thought. Especially when you’re thinking of going out of the sandbox while supporting MS, Sun and Netscape JVMs.
I happened to read a neat article about the way Microsoft Word handles the tab pressed by a user. And we take things so much for granted.
Makes for interesting reading. Golly, all the milestones.
After hearing a lot of appreciation about the newly released Microsft Anti Spyware (Beta), I decided to check it out today. I downloaded a copy from Microsoft’s website, and scanned my machine.
Lo and behold, the tool identified upto 10 spyware/adware/trojans that I didn’t know existed in my machine. Now, I’m quite careful about what software to install, but I didn’t expect to find so many of them on my box. Anyway, I’m now rid of them.
This tool also does a couple of other useful things. You may want to check it out. Good stuff from Microsoft.
Now I’ve not tried Spaces, but I know a few people who hate it. Now Microsoft plans to integrate blogging into Outlook, SharePoint and MSN Messenger.
Looking at the other side of things, Gaim already lets you post blog entries.
LJ also lets you email your blog entries (paid service) like Spaces does.