Last week sometime I was doing maintenance on an OLD Windows 95 machine (yes there are some still out there….) and noticed the Antivirus had not updated in a good while. They were using Grisoft’s AVG and so I tried to force an update. I was greeted with an error message… “Cannot Launch AV internet update” Which was puzzling since we were online with no connectivity problems. On looking, this is known to be an issue with Grisoft AVG on Windows 95…..
Category: Tech Support
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Outlook archive error message
Saw this today…. “Error while aging folder “Inbox” in store “Personal Folders”. File access is
denied. You do not have the permission required to access the file
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\archive.pst.”It was on an older Outlook 98/Windows 98 system, but it was something that might be applicable to others as well.
Basically, this system has two different profiles, both of which are password protected.
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Windows XP SP3
Well, in the article the other day about the Windows wireless problem/(feature that could be exploitable?) there was a mention that the default behaviour for Windows would be changed with the next service pack, for XP users that’s SP3. So, when can we expec this? It seems that service pack three for Windows XP probably won’t be publicly available until the second half of 2007.
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Using the command line in linux – part 4
Dealing with text…. we’ve looked at a couple of basics on logging in and starting to use the command line and hopefully not feeling too helpless there… we’ve seen ways to navigate directories and how to find new commands and how to find out more about how to use them. Now it’s time to talk about how to manipulate (work with) text files. Most every important configuration file in linux is text based and editable from the command line. This can be a VERY good thing at times, or very intimidating if you’re not comfortable with a command line environment. It’s worth noting that you CAN edit configuration files with a graphical interface text editor….
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Using the command line in linux – part 3
Now that we’ve logged in and learned how to move from one directory to another (and find where we are if we get lost…) it’s probably time to start learning how to find out about other commands. Well, if you press tab at the command line you will likely see something that starts like this….
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Display all 4601 possibilities? (y or n)
and if you answer with a “y” you will see a long list of programs that could be run. That’s not usually the best way to find a program though. -
Using the command line in linux – part 2
This is part two in a series of “how to use the command line in linux” style articles…. these are intended to be quite basic for those that have not used a command line before…. In part one we logged in (if necessary) and found out about the help command, navigated a bit with the arrows and exit -ed from our login. This time we’ll try to learn a bit more about dealing with files and navigating. In a graphical interface, if you browse files, you’re presented with a list of files and folders for a directory that you can scroll through and read at your leisure. In the command line we have to tell the computer to list the files and folders for the directory that we’re currently “in” to list those in linux, we use the ls command….
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Using the command line in linux – part 1
I know many people get intimidated with a black screen, white text and blinking cursor. No mouse, not knowing where to start…. well, I’m going to spend a bit of time in this article trying to help show you how to survive the command line in linux. For starters, don’t think that linux is a command line only operating system. In some installs, the administrator may not want a gui, but there are some VERY functional and full featured graphical interfaces for linux. For me though, if you know what you want to accomplish, the command line can be a much more efficient way to “get the job done” for many tasks.
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Scheduling tasks in linux – the at command
I did an article a while back about cron and scheduling tasks in linux (I also mentioned kron which is a graphical interface for cron scheduling…). That works well and good for things that happen on a recurring basis, but the next question is what if I want to schedule a command (or series of commands) to happen once and not again? Well, to tell the truth I’ve used cron for this on occasion, being sure to revisit the crontab and remove the entry before it repeats again, but there is a better way. At.
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Urgent AOL update
This sounds like a serious vulnerability. The SecurityFix is reporting on a very serious vulnerability in AOL.
The problem affects AOL version 8.0, AOL version 8.0+, and AOL version 9.0 Classic.
The vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to take control of a users PC. Basically, all that would be needed is for the AOL user to visit a specially crafted web page.
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Running kontact components standalone
Not long ago, I switched from Evolution to Kontact as my primary mail/calendar/addressbook/etc…. program under linux. One of the nice things about the Kontact suite is that you can either open up the “umbrella” application kontact or, the individual applications. I like the fact that they can still be used standalone. So, I was a bit frustrated to find every link for each of the components to bring up the “umbrella” kontact application, instead of the standalone….