One of the things I’ve run into with various linux livecds, whether it’s my own made with mklivecd, or others based on Knoppix, the Suse Livecd, or I could go on…. the problem I’ve seen is with the display drivers. Yes, MOST of the time the autodetection seems to work fine and you get a good legible display. There are sometimes that you get an illegible display of one or two flavors. One is the overlapping ghostted images. I personally like this one more because it means we’re close, that the autodetect has just chosen the wrong resolution or refresh rate. This can be fixed.
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Author: Avery
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Display problems with livecds
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Pay per click hijacking
Interesting article at lurhq.com on pay per click hijacking, which is really an extension on old DNS poisoning attacks. Essentially the DNS poisoning attack works like this…
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Review of Acer Ferrari 4000 notebook
The Register also has a review up today of the Acer Ferrarri 4000 notebook/laptop. Apparently, an older version of the Ferrari was too bright red for the taste of the reviewers. They do a thorough writeup of the newer version which appears to be a sleeker, more conservative colored model.
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AOL purchases wireless company
AOL has purchased Wildseed according to The Register. Wildseed provides wireless “accessories” such as ring tones, video downloads, backgrounds, etc. AOL recently bought a company involved in online storage of files, Xdrive.
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Sunbeltblog on Windows Vista’s attempt to keep Windows up to speed
Sunbelt blog has an article about Microsoft’s plan to keep Windows Vista from becomming more sluggish as the system aged. Microsoft’s plan is to run defragmentation in the background and preloading commonly used components as outlined in this article.
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Trifinite clarifies some points on car whisperer
The big buzz in tech circles last week was the release of a tool called “car whisperer” which could allow someone to remotely insert audio into a bluetooth enabled vehicle. It was also possible, using the cars audio system to eavesdrop on the interior of the vehicle. Essentially, the folks at trifinite used a directional antenna, laptop and special software to take advantage of the fact that most manufacterors are not securing their bluetooth receivers with anything more than 0000 or 1234 for an access pin number.
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Microsofts Linux Lab manager answers questions on slashdot
A few days back I mentioned that slashdot was posing questions to Bill Hilf, the manager of Microsoft’s Linux lab. Today his responses are being posted.
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Easy linux firewall
So, you need a firewall for your growing home network (or small business), don’t want to lay out a couple hundred dollars (or even 1 hundred dollars), what do you do? Give up and let the world in? No. There are a few good options, one I’ll mention today is Coyote linux. This is a popular floppy sized firewall boot disk. One of the real charms of this is that it’s minimum hardware requirement is a 486DX/25 or better processor and 12MB of memory.
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Database for malware URL’s
Incidents.org is soliciting people to submitting URL’s of malware, those addresses we get in mail that are a link to something, bad.
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Inkjet printer buying guide
Cooltech zone currently has an article(slashdotting underway I think), on the topic of an inkjet buying guide. It may be a bit slow at the moment, but if you’re in the market for an inkjet printer, this may be just what you need to help sift through the marketing.