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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for January 2011

Issued: January 6, 2011

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This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on January 11, 2011.

The full version of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for January 2011 can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms11-jan.mspx.

This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the January bulletin summary on January 11, 2011. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/advance.mspx.

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Microsoft also provides information to help customers prioritize monthly security updates with any non-security, high-priority updates that are being released on the same day as the monthly security updates. Please see the section, Other Information.

This advance notification provides a number as the bulletin identifier, because the official Microsoft Security Bulletin numbers are not issued until release. The bulletin summary that replaces this advance notification will have the proper Microsoft Security Bulletin numbers (in the MSyy-xxx format) as the bulletin identifier. The security bulletins for this month are as follows, in order of severity:

Critical Security Bulletins

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Bulletin 2

  - Affected Software:

    - Windows XP Service Pack 3

    - Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2

    - Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2

    - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2

    - Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems

    - Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and

      Windows Vista Service Pack 2

    - Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 1 and

      Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2

    - Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems and

      Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2

      (Windows Server 2008 Server Core installation affected)

    - Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems and

      Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2

      (Windows Server 2008 Server Core installation affected)

    - Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems and

      Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 2

    - Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems

    - Windows 7 for x64-based Systems

    - Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems

      (Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core installation affected)

    - Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems

    - Impact: Remote Code Execution

    - Version Number: 1.0

Important Security Bulletins

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Bulletin 1

  - Affected Software:

    - Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and

      Windows Vista Service Pack 2

    - Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 1 and

      Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2

    - Impact: Remote Code Execution

    - Version Number: 1.0

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AND FOR MY FRIENDS WHO USE APPLE/MAC 

know this:

Apple surpasses Microsoft in security vulnerabilities
You probably heard Apple surpassed Microsoft as top tech dog in May. Well, here's another area where Apple beat Microsoft this year: security vulnerabilities.

In its recently released half-year report, Danish security firm Secunia found that Apple surpassed Oracle this year as the software developer with the most vulnerabilities.

Apple and Oracle were followed by Microsoft, which has held the No. 3 spot in Secunia's list since 2006. Others in the top 10 list of software vendors with most vulnerabilities were HP, Adobe Systems, IBM, VMware, Cisco, Google and the Mozilla foundation.

This is particularly interesting when you take into consideration how many new iPhones iPods and the new iPads that have been purchased this recent Christmas.

SOPHOS

has a free anti-virus software for Mac

CLICK HERE

to get it.

PINK SATURDAY

HAPPY 2011

AND IN HONOR OF MY

FASHIONISTA

NICNACMANIAC

I HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO HER FOR ALWAYS SAYING

I'VE NEVER OWNED OR WORN ANY THING PINK.

GOING THROUGH OLD PHOTOS

TO SCAN.

I FOUND THIS

TAKEN IN KAMIKURA, JAPAN

NEAR THE SITE

OF

THE GREAT DIBUTSU

IN 1978

THE HAT WAS MADE BY AND GIVEN TO MY BY THE 70 YEAR OLD MOTHER OF MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR IN NAGAI, JAPAN, JUST OUTSIDE OF YOKOSUKA.

SO, NERINA.

I'M SORRY FOR MISLEADING YOU FOR ALL THIS TIME.

BUT, I'M PRETTY SURE THIS IS THE ONLY

PINK

IN MY ALBUMS.

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HAPPY 2011

A REALLY COOL CHRISTMAS TOY.

For Christmas, my son gave his mother (and in this day and age I'm forced to add, she is also my wife, thanks "MODERN FAMILY", a Canon Flatbed color scanner. I had an HP scanner many years ago. It was huge, loud, slow and very finicky.

As a testimony to Canon and their new, light-weight modern technology, My wife and I became quickly enamored of this toy tool.

It's quiet, fast, easy to use. Easy to install & configure. And it gives fantastic results, as shown in these images copied from some prints we have in 1 of the dozen or so photo albums we have collected during 29 years of our marriage.

KPK

This is my son Kyle. Now 24, when he was celebrating his 3rd Christmas.

Good looking kid. Must be something to that heredity stuff, huh?

ABK

This is the little girl, for which no mortal will be good enough to suite her dad.

Amanda, just into the terrible 2s, and 20 years later, still in that phase.

This is how I picture my children, much to their chagrin, when I think about them.

NASTAD MAULERS

And this is a group photo of the 1979, 1980, 1981 

NTC, 

&

FLEASWTRACENPAC

&

NETSCPAC

League Softball Champions.

(Can you spot me in there?)

 tell me what cool thing showed up under your tree.

My #1

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

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my introduction to the story came about from an old cartoon version, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol.

the story intrigued me, and the book by Charles Dickens was actually one of the first classes I read before I was 10 years old. I have loved this story since my early youth. And although I had to go the library to get a copy, you can read it online for free:

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Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about.register at his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon change for anything he put his hand to. Old Marley was dead as a door nail.

CLICK TO READ THE ENTIRE STORY HERE

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over the years I have made a tradition to watch that movie, it has many versions as I can find. The store had been reprised so many times it's almost impossible to keep tabs on every version of it. The latest version released last year 2009 start Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge. I have yet to see that version, as I am not a very big Jim Carrey fan. Outside of Liar Liar, and how the Grinch stole Christmas, his perpetual overacting bothers me to no end.

And since I gauge the entire story on the performance of the actor in the lead role, I have very little enjoyment from comedic knockoffs, such as Scrooged starring Bill Murray. There's even a version Where Tori Spelling plays a leading role (couldn't stand it).

my favorite Ebenezer's are:

Henry Winkler,

An American Christmas Carol

a very passable portrayal that does not make you think of Fonzie.

Patrick Stewart

A Christmas Carol

not the best bad guy Ebenezer, but very enjoyable transitioned, good guy Ebenezer.

George C Scott

Scrooge

an excellent bad guy Ebenezer. However, did not transition well into the good guy Ebenezer.

Alastair Sim

A Christmas Carol

usually the critics choice, and for many years it was my choice. This portrayal of the scratching, clawing, nose to the grindstone miser, gave me chills in my youth. And for years when I heard about the bogeyman, this was who I thought of. And his transition portrayal is sheer genius when he actually stands on his head, scares the cleaning woman screaming out of the room.

But recently I have found a new favorite Ebenezer:

Michael Caine

A Muppet Christmas Carol...

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 MERRY CHRISTMAS

BUSY BUSY

Tomorrow, I'm going to visit my old workplace, to attend the annual Christmas pot-luck. I'll be sure to bring back lots of pictures to share. But in the mean time, I'd like to share some of the photos I recently took on one of my neighborhood excursions. Once before, the kind lady from THIS OLD HOUSE asked me to show what a typical SoCal Suburban neighborhood looks like. Well Karen. I don't know how typical it is. But this is the views of & from our house.

This is the North West corner of my house, and the front porch where I watch the grass grow.

Facing due South from the North West corner of my Frontyard.

Due South from the street

Same Southerly view, looking up.

We live on top of a hill overlooking the city of Santee, California.

My next-door neighbor (North from my house).

Facing due West, my neighbor Dale lives here.

Facing WNW from the bottom of my driveway.

The wild fire of 2003 came over those hills and right up to the rear of those and my house. We did not evacuate, as the neighbors and I took a defensive posture and kept our property safe.

Front Porch (zoomed)

From the bottom of my drive, facing ENE.

My green Dodge 1500 RAM SPORT

Note: Lawn is not drought tolerant.

Hibiscus blooms in December, in SoCal.

Closer

Drought tolerant, low maintenance.

More of the above, Tighter shot.

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Dale's Propane powered Toyota ORV

CREEPYTOY

CREEPYTOY

 Karen, still trying to figure out how to move this bling

My custom hand painted SKULLS air breather

Onto this! 

and

JUST IN CASE I DON'T SEE Y'ALL BEFORE THEN

have a very

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I'll Be Right Back.