Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday followed by headache Wednesday
by Jordan Running Apr 19th 2006
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday last week meant a sigh of relief for sysadmins dreading the nasty Internet Explorer
vulnerability discovered last month,
but any relief was short-lived as the round of patches has apparently led to a plague of bugs and incompatibilities. Last
week's patches are causing "causing system hangs, Windows crashes and the appearance of strange dialog boxes"
and interfering with apps from Google, HP, and even Microsoft's own Windows Media Player. One company is also saying
that the new Internet Explorer plugin behavior resulting from Microsoft's patent dispute with Eolas is
causing problems for enterprise customers, who are having to click several times to use ActiveX controls. As usual,
none of these problems will be fixed until the second Tuesday of next month.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
