[Gllug] [OT?] This ones great! MS security hole

[Christian Smith]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Dean S Wilson wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Stig Brautaset" <stigbrau at start.no>
>
>
>> > Got a truck to drive through this hole?
>> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24274.html
>
>On the plus side I've used it to remotly run some updates on our
>internal network... It was done to prove a point though. Get people to
>follow a link in outlook and then do remote upgrades ;)
>
>> It's evident that gnumeric (with its XML format) here blows the XLS
>> format out of the water, especially since you can actually open the
>file
>> in a plain text editor and read it (and edit, I presume, if you like
>to
>> live dangerously).
>
>That surprises me, one of the biggest sticking points with XML is its
>verbosity. It normally comes in pretty big in comparison with a binary
>format... Although xls may be a special case.

It compresses very nicely though, as there is lots of white space and
repeating text sequences (well, the sizes Stig showed just how well!)

>
>Dia is another good example of an app that uses XML, you can parse
>some of the XML out and do nifty little things with it like build the
>SQL statements for database schemas from ER diagrams.
>
>  Dean (Playing with SVG again)
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