Is the Java "Zero-Day" bug dangerous for MountainLion users?

It is not yet dangerous, to my knowledge, as it is currently being used only to distribute Windows malware. But users of Java 7 are certainly vulnerable, should a hacker start distributing Mac malware through this vulnerability.
For more info, see:
http://www.reedcorner.net/new-unpatched-java-vulnerability-discovered/

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E52 bug list for advanced users

I wanted to start the compilation of a bug list for advanced users. Here is my first suggestion:
1. SMS Functionality:
When trying to send SMS to a distribution list, the phone interface will ask you to choose between number and email addresses, even though the phone does understand that this is a SMS and not an email ("Text Message" appering on top)
This happens even when the contact has one phone number only (and an email address) in the phonebook
This does not happen when you use PC Suite to do the same task
2. Mail for Exchange client:
I will not go through the many -most already reported- bugs and general instability of the client. However, I will mention two that I have not seen reported anywhere so far:
When forwarding emails, only the header (From/To/Date/Subject) is forwarded. The rest of the text, as well as possible atachments are not forwarded. This is happening -to my epxerience- every time you try to forward an email
The client doesn't provide information (like the previous, installable client for devices such as E51, E71, etc.) as to when was the last time that sync took place, while it also doesn't show a real-time progress like the previous one. These two functionalities were very useful for controlling the Mail for Exchange process and understanding proactively if there was an issue. I consider these a must for any Business user (going through the log files to understand the same thing is obviously utterly impractical)
The client doesn't synchronise the "Deleted Items" folder from the mail server but only locally (which means it includes emails that were deleted only from the device itself).
The synchronization of the folders other than "Inbox" should be happening ad-hoc whenever the user is accessing these folders and requesting a sunchronization. Otherwise, we see the phenomenon of extremely lengthy synchronizations
3. Screen/Display:
It would be nice, when using the smallest font, to also accordingly compress the menu choices, in order to be able to fit more on the screen. Otherwise, with the present implementation, the fonts get smaller, but the relevant menu icons are not, resulting in an assymetrical look
4. Ovi suite:
As a general comment, I would like to mention that -apart from totally unknown NOKIA policy with regards to Ovi vis-a-vis PC Suite- it is not appropriate for Ovi to contain less functionality than PC Suite (I am referring to SMS presentation, etc.). In general, I find Ovi much clunkier and more clumsy than PC Suite which has actually evolved well over the years as the absolute PC phone tool (and still a differentiator for Nokia). So, NOKIA, please do not screw up PC Suite for something that may be "hype" accoridng to you, but is used as a tool by many of your customers.
5. Log:
As in previous phones/firmware versions, when setting the Log to 30 days, only 7 or ten days are actually retained. Maybe related to phone memory, but in any case it is a nuissance
6. SMS/VMs/Missed calls notifications:
This is not a bug, but at least personally, I preffered the way the SMS/VMs/Missed calls notifications were displayed in the previous devices (E51, etc.), just below the active stand-by applications "ribbon", instead of at the bottom of the screen. The new implementation makes it harder to access these items than before (at least for me)
I appeal to NOKIA to consider and fix these issues in the next firmware release(s).
Timos Tsokanis

@Timos , great compilation. I hope Nokia will work to resolve these quickly.
I have been using phone since last 2-3 days and find few things in Email client really annoying.
Also I want to understand few settings in Email client (version 2.1.0). They have made settings too complicated.
1)Any folder except Inbox doesn't show unread email count in brackets next to folder names.
i.e. If i delete or move 2 emails which I have not read to any folder(Deleted etc) , then deleted folder should be like Deleted(2). But right now it doesnt show anything. Strange.
I have checked with E72 and this bug is not there.
2) I have Gmail, Hotmail and Ovi mail as part of Nokia Messaging. But only Gmail and Hotmail actually show up when I open Messaging. All 3 show up if I open Email.
3)What does "Download Notification" under Global settings do? Notification icon control?
4) Why my Name field in Mailbox setting is picked from account at email.nokia.com, also even though secure connection is Yes under server settings in email.nokia.com, for same email its No in email client.
5) Why I am not allowed to change settings in "What to sync" , e.g. Hide email older than
6) what do settings "synchronise new updates" , "timed sync" do? No explaining in help.
7) Setting ->Gmail(or any other)->Account settings->Account Info, why number is blank? Also please make this work with destinations support. Also connectivity setting should be in global settings.
Best Regards,
Suyog

Patch for the lastest zero day vulnerability

Hi
Microsoft has released a patch for the latest zero day vulnerability. In the page
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2887505 it is written:
"You must have security update 2870699 installed for this Fix it to provide effective protection against this issue."
Question: What happens if this path is installed and 2870699 has not been installed yet?
a: Will not provide effective protection against this issue before 2870699 has been installed - but work fine when it has been installed?
or
b: Will never provide effective protection against this issue if 2870699 is installed after the fix in 2887505.
Thanks in advance
Best regards Harald

Hi,
This fixit is a appcompat shim, performs as a temporary Advanced Workaround to help protect against attempts to exploit this vulnerability. I think
it is recommended to install the two updates in sequence just as described in the KB.
To better understand this, I’d like to share the following articles with you:
CVE-2013-3893: Fix it workaround available
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/09/17/cve-2013-3893-fix-it-workaround-available.aspx
Regards,
Yolanda

Zero-day exploit patch for Reader 9?

Any word on the zero-day exploit patch for Reader 9?

Yes, Claudio, thanks for the reply. I may be a little overly anxious in asking because, while I realize the patch is expected sometime this week, I have grown accustomed to Tuesday releases. Meanwhile our security team wants us to patch this exploit ASAP. I was just wondering if there were any updates on the expected release other than "this week."

I created a form with Single Choice fields, 4 days with times listed. But, I want the user to only be able to choose one time, and the time chosen to be unavailable for other users. How do I do this?

I created a form with Single Choice fields, 4 days with times listed. But, I want the user to only be able to choose one time, and the time chosen to be unavailable for other users. How do I do this? I have 4 blocks of Single Choice fields in order for the summary page to give me each day in the final report. But, I need the user to be able to make a selection of any day and time and that apointment to no longer be available to future users when they log in. Plus, when the user clicks on the time, they are unable to change their mind and choose another time. Here's the link if you want to see what I'm talking about: 2015-2016 Workload Apportionment Review

I'm afraid not. It's not rocket science but you need to do some coding.
You'll need to find a script (php) and save it to your local site folder. Then reference the script in your form's action attribute like so.
<form action="path/form-to-email-script.php" >
The input fields in your HTML form need to exactly match the script variables.
I'm assuming you're hosted on a Linux server which uses PHP code. Linux servers are also case sensitive, so upper case names are not the same as lower case names. It's usually best to use all lower case names in your form and script to avoid confusion.
Related Links:
Formm@ailer PHP from DB Masters
http://dbmasters.net/index.php?id=4
Tectite
http://www.tectite.com/formmailpage.php
If this is all a bit beyond your skill set, look at:
Wufoo.com (on-line form service)
http://wufoo.com/
Nancy O.

How to customize the Java Concurrent Program(PO Output for Communication)

Hi,
How to customize the Java Concurrent Program(PO Output for Communication)
I need to add the Line level Ship To Address ,Line Notes and Extended Price fields on Java Concurrent Program.
Please any body help/guide me in this regard.

Hi,
Changing Java Conc. program for "PO Output for Communication" is difficult.
Actually, if you observe closely, "PO Output for Communication" program uses PO<HEADER/LINES..>_XML views.
So if you could change these views and add your requireed columns to it, you can automatically see your changes in XML data file.
See if the following link will you to get there.. http://chandramatta.blogspot.com/
thanks,
Matt

MacAir - error message "This version of itunes has not been correctly localized for this language. Please run the english version" Saw other answers for windows users, I have a MacAir. never used any other language but English

Trying to open iTunes - get an error message saying "This version of itunes has not been correctly localized for this language. Please run the english version" Saw other answers for windows users, I have a MacAir. never used any other language but English so I have no clue what the problem is. I just want to update my phone and back it up.

Let's try a repair install of iTunes.
Restart the PC first.
If you're using Vista or 7, now head into your Uninstall a program control panel, select "iTunes" and then click "Repair".
If you're using XP, head into your Add or Remove Programs control panel, select "iTunes", and click "Change". Select "Repair" and click "Next" as per the following screenshot:
Can you launch your iTunes now?

How to disable the validity of a particular Role for 100 users, in a single

Hi
How to disable the validity of a particular Role
which is assigned to 100 users. (disabling the role of change the validity of the role )
at present am doing manually, by entering into each user and changing the validity of the role
Thanks.

> How to disable the validity of a particular Role for 100 users, in a single ...
... shot?
Assign a reference user to the 100+ users and create events in the factory calendar which assigns and removes the role from the reference user only.
The downside is that it is not scalable for many of the same concepts at the same time, because a dialog user can at one logon time only have one reference user assigned to them.
Cheers,
Julius

Is it legal to ban the use of Network Magic Pro for registered users

Hi
I have a question ... Is it legal to ban the use of Network Magic Pro for registered users
Cisco would he have to propose a solution : patch, reg file or other solution
Because it's certainly enough to modify one or more files to make Network Magic Pro registered ...
Regards.
Daniel

Hi Daniel,
I'm not sure if it's still possible to create a solution to it. I believe Cisco and Pure Networks (Network Magic) has ended their partnership since last year.

What's up with Java Zero Day, and is Snow Leopard endangered?

That.

Patched or not and regardless of the version, I'd keep Java disabled, period. Best place for Java is shackled, locked up and caged.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/08/attackers-pounce-on-zero-day-java-exploit/
If you do not need Java, get rid of it, and if you do need it for specific applications or sites, limit your use of Java to those sites and applications, using a secondary browser for that purpose.

Time machine makes 30 backups for the last two days, no backups for any earlier times: is there a way to control it?

I've been running Time Machine in the background for as long as I've owned my current Mac--- a few months. It is a completely generic set-up: it's a desktop (rarely shut off or asleep) connected to an external hard drive that is much larger (1 TB) than my internal hard drive (0.5 TB), and Time Machine is configured to save backups of my whole internal drive to the external drive. The external is half-full, and the internal is a little more than half-full. I often hear my external crunching away, working on something.
I recently needed to access an old file, so I went into Time Machine mode on the folder where it had been deleted a few weeks ago. While I'm not upset that it isn't available (it's my own fault for deleting it), I didn't expect the Time Machine to have such a bad distribution of saved backups. There are 30 backup snapshots of the past two days, and nothing earlier. I was expecting something more like a few from today, a few from this week, a few from this month, and a few going all the way back in time--- a broader distribution.
I don't see any way to control this in the Time Machine Preferences (in fact, very little control at all). Is there a secret way to control it, or some tip to ensure a more useful distribution of saved snapshots?
Thanks,
-- Jim

Thanks, but it doesn't exactly address my question. TimeMachineEditor allows me to set the intervals or times when backups occur, but it doesn't control the algorithm that decides which snapshots should be deleted. My problem was that Time Machine chose to delete all of the old snapshots and keep only the most recent ones: I'd like it to keep more of the recent ones than the old ones, but still keep some old ones.
In fact, the (unmodifyable) text on the Time Machine control panel says that it keeps:
hourly backups for the past 24 hours
daily backups for the past month
weekly backups for all previous months
That would be perfect if it were true.
Perhaps the algorithm did the wrong thing because the size of my internal hard drive varied quite a lot a few days ago: a process got out of control and used up all of my internal disk space. I killed the process and deleted its output (several times), so my internal disk eventually went back down to normal. Perhaps in the intervening hours, Time Machine made a backup, once an hour, and used up all of the external drive space. When it had to choose between keeping "weekly backups of previous months" and "hourly backups of the past 24 hours", it chose to keep hourly backups of the past 24 hours. This was the wrong choice in my case (it was the unwanted output) and is probably the wrong choice in most cases.
Is there a way to control the algorithm that decides which backups to keep and which to delete? I would have it delete the hourly, daily, and weekly backups in a way that preserves their relative distribution.
By the way, while I have made it sound like my problem was a runaway log file (something that would be easy to put in an excluded directory with Time Machine's "Options" button), it was a VirtualBox snapshot merge. The data in question are precious, but were unnecessarily copied many times while VirtualBox failed to merge them properly. I can't simply exclude a directory: I'm talking about a more general problem.
Thanks!
-- Jim

Is JavaFX included in the Java 1.7 JDK/JRE for RH Linux/CentOS?

I am experimenting developing an eclipse 4 application with JavaFX as the renderer on a CentOS system. It was my understanding that JavaFX was now part of the Java 7 (and later) JREs. Is this not true for the RH/CentOS linux distribution? If it is not, what do I need to do in order to add JavaFX?

I've written a small program isolating this issue, you can find it here. It is effected on the 1.6.0u45 and 1.7.0u21 JVMs on Windows for the Calibri, Calibri Bold, Calibri Bold Italic, Calibri Italic and Cambria Bold fonts, and most likely fixed in the non-public 1.6.0u51 JVM and confirmed to be fixed on the 1.7.0u25 JVMs. Given that there's no public documentation, I assume this has been internally discovered or fixed unintentionally.

Equipment mailbox not showing partial days on calendar for certain user (in month view).

We have one user that is having a problem with viewing Equipment Mailboxes.
We are running Exchange 2010 version 14.02.0328.009. Client machine is running Outlook 2010 x86.
The mailbox is a check-out vehicle that he and one other person manage. When someone sends a request to the van, it books it for that time, then doesn't allow others to book it for that same time as expected. However, some users don't like to do their own
booking so they have him do it for them. Several times now he has went out on the calendar (actually 3 different vans, all respond the same way) and booked a van on a day that looked available to him, only to find out on that day that two different people
show up expecting that same van. One person booked it on their own, and he booked it again. It never gave a prompt to disallow him or tell him it was taken from the attendant. However, for the other guy that manages the mailboxes it looks just fine, for me,
for many other users I've compared with, it looks and responds as it should.
I have checked the settings on the equipment mailboxes as well as compared his Exchange account with the other person who is working as expected, they are identical. The thing that I've found is that if someone books a van for an 'all day' event, he sees
it just fine. If they set it up for a partial day, it never shows to him in month view.
Looking at the calendar permissions for the mailbox both of the people have equal rights. I tried setting this person to owner to see if it helped, to no avail. I also tried setting the "Show As:" to free, busy, tentative, out of office, all respond
the same way.
It seems to show up when he does a schedule view, but from a month view, nothing shows and it allows him to book the van. For everyone else that I've tested, it responds as expected.
I have deleted and recreated his profile on his local machine, and he even recently got a whole new desktop so it shouldn't be anything local (has been going on for many weeks), but I honestly have no idea why it's doing it. Any suggestions from the gurus
on here would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi,
Since the issue only happens when this specific user view the equipment mailbox's calendar in Outlook monthly view, please access this user's mailbox in OWA and view the equipment maibox's calendar and send test meeting requests to have a try.
If the issue also happens in OWA, please run the following cmdlet to check the equipment mailbox calendar configuration:
Get-CalendarProcessing equipmentmailbox | fl
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Winnie Liang
TechNet Community Support

Restrict the posting period opening and closing for some users

Dear SAP gurus,
I want to restrict some users to open the posting period and for some users close posting periods. I knew that these can be done through authorization group. Pls explain how to create authorization groups and how to use those? Anybody can help me out?
Regards,
Venkata Reddy

Dear Venkatareddy,
There are two sets of period in OB52. The first set of "From" and "To" is for the authorised group and second set is for the non authorised group. In the "Authorisation Group" (last column) give some 4 charecters name. Say "FICO".
Now ask the basis to attach the object "FICO" for the users who are authorised say user1, user 2 and user3.
Now in the first set of period you can maintain say 1 2008 to 16 2008 and in the second set 1 2008 to 1 2008.
So except user1,2 and 3, all the others can post only in 1 2008. Whereas users 1,2 and3 can post in all the periods of 2008.
Assign points if useful
regards
Venkatesh

I accidently deleted my pre-installed safari program on my iphone and can't find it anywhere. I have tried to search spots to download it again, but not sure which is the right download as only see for mac users etc. Need help to get safari back Iphone 4

Hi,
I have accidently deleted safari from my iphone and can't find it to put it back. I did it ages ago as I didn't know what it was and I was trying to create extra space! Now when I click on a link say in an email, it doesn't come up with a browser. I have looked at the apple site but can only see a download for mac users. Not sure if this is the case because it is preinstalled on the iphone.
Help needed please!
Linda/Phillip

Try this...
Reset your Home screen to the default layout:
Choose Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset Home Screen Layout.
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