NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard
I ask the national members of ISO to vote "NO" in the ballot of ISO DIS 29500 (Office OpenXML or OOXML format) for the following reasons:
- There is already a standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format (ODF): a dual standard adds costs, uncertainty and confusion to industry, government and citizens;
- There is no provable implementation of the OOXML specification: Microsoft Office 2007 produces a special version of OOXML, not a file format which complies with the OOXML specification;
- There is information missing from the specification document, for example how to do a autoSpaceLikeWord95 or useWord97LineBreakRules;
- More than 10% of the examples mentioned in the proposed standard do not validate as XML;
- There is no guarantee that anybody can write software that fully or partially implements the OOXML specification without being liable to patent lawsuits or patent license fees by Microsoft;
- This format conflicts with existing ISO standards, such as ISO 8601 (Representation of dates and times), ISO 639 (Codes for the Representation of Names and Languages) or ISO/IEC 10118-3 (cryptographic hash);
- There is a bug in the spreadsheet file format which forbids any date before the year 1900: such bugs affect the OOXML specification as well as software applications like Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007.
- This standard proposal was not created by bringing together the experience and expertise of all interested parties (such as the producers, sellers, buyers, users and regulators), but by Microsoft alone.
Sign the petition against the ISO "standardization" of OOXML at http://www.noooxml.org/petition
Footnote: Summary of ISO or W3C standardized document interchange formats: PDF (ISO 19005-1:2005, ISO/PRF 24517-1), ODF (ISO/IEC 26300:2006), PNG (ISO/IEC 15948:2004), CGM (ISO/IEC 8632:1999), HTML (W3C HTML 4.01), XML (W3C XML 1.1), SVG (W3C SVG 1.1) and more. That should cover most document interchange needs, when allowing for some special-application formats like DWG (Autocad), PCB (Orcad PCB files) and GRB (Gerber plot files). Let's stick to correctly open standardized formats!
Bestilt!
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Jeg kan ikke det her!
... men Planet Snuskete-Mannen sitt arbeid gjorde alt for vondt med øynene mine!!!
Derfor har jeg hakket sammen et utkast til planeten, som kan likes, eller hates, men
det er da ihvertfall et utkast. Web-visning ligger på
http://lilug.no/~fishy/snuskete/
(beklager UTF8/ISO bug), og skjermskudd (ja det er Safari for teh Win-dows) finnes her:

This is meez too… (meme)

Fant igrunn ikke noe hår jeg var fornøyd med, men det er da close enough?
Bagle.Y Spreading via YouTube ??
I got this HUGE WTF after leaving my computer unattended while running Windows XP. I sometimes have to run that OS, and when I do, I try to make sure I have anti-malware/virus protection, and run Firefox as my web-browser.
I had been looking at some videos at YouTube, and decided to just let the computer idle with the YouTube page up while I was out of the house for a short while. When I came back, I got this WTF when the screen came to life..
As the network I am on is protected by no less than two statefull firewalls, the only way this could happen, is that one of YouTube's web-servers is infected with Bagle.Y, and that the virus has hijacked an already existing communication between my computer and the server in question. That is sneaky, as it will effectively render statefull firewalling non-effective in protecting Windows computers that are not running an up-to-date virus/malware protection scheme. Also note that this insecurity has nothing to do with what web-browser actually initiated the "attack", even tho the virus in question is dependent on an Internet Explorer rendering engine handling the incoming data to do its magic..
I hope that this is a "one-off" or just some freak incident, and that this post/rant/whatever is unfounded FUD-spreading. It it is not, then please follow my suggestions:
- If you need to run Windows, make sure you have working malware protection
- Again, on Windows, be vary of content-rich media-sites that run off Microsoft based datacenters, i.e. YouTube and Hotmail
- Try to avoid any applications that use the Microsoft Internet Explorer rendering engine. This includes: Eudora, Outlook Express, Outlook, Word et.al.
- If possible: switch to an OS that is less prone to infection
Update!
I recieved the following correspondence from YouTube after notifying them
Dear Jon,
Thanks for contacting YouTube.
Jon, first off, let me apologize for the anxiety that you are facing here.
We at YouTube appreciate your detailed inquiry/claim. I have passed this
onto our chief of security issues here and you should be hearing from us
shortly. Let me reiterate how serious we take security issues. One note,
the screenshot you provided showed an old address (non-current) for our
company. Please be patient while we investigate this issue.
Regards,
[name removed]
The YouTube Team
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Spot the WTF !!
This is from eZ Publish 3.9, which also is called "production code"...
Tryu to spot the small, cute WTF...
function createHash( $user, $password, $site, $type )
{
$str = '';
// eZDebugSetting::writeDebug( 'kernel-user', "'$user' '$password' '$site'", "ezuser($type)" );
if( $type == EZ_USER_PASSWORD_HASH_MD5_USER )
{
$str = md5( "$user\n$password" );
}
else if ( $type == EZ_USER_PASSWORD_HASH_MD5_SITE )
{
$str = md5( "$user\n$password\n$site" );
}
else if ( $type == EZ_USER_PASSWORD_HASH_MYSQL )
{
// Do some MySQL stuff here
}
else if ( $type == EZ_USER_PASSWORD_HASH_PLAINTEXT )
{
$str = $password;
}
else // EZ_USER_PASSWORD_HASH_MD5_PASSWORD
{
$str = md5( $password );
}
eZDebugSetting::writeDebug( 'kernel-user', $str, "ezuser($type)" );
return $str;
}


