Classic Tech Tips Archive

For a while dnsstuff.com has been my favorite dns tools web site, but there are others. Recently I was pointed to domaintools.com.

A while ago I wrote about various ways to have an offline copy of the wikipedia. Yes, I know there are credibility issues with wikipedia, but taken with a few grains of salt and objective thinking it…

So, one of the things I've been doing is drive imaging. I've got 3 systems that are to be identical (based on, of all things Freedos...) So, I thought it was a perfect opportunity to dust off cloning…

A few days ago I was researching possibilities for linux boot without rebooting to a cd. I found something interesting in instlux. Essentially, it's a windows installer style download that can bootst…

So... it's ~70 degrees out and springish I have network cables draped over my desk to support a couple systems that I'm imaging right now and am really not wanting to sit here, but... I do have a few…

One recent task was install opengroupware on a dapper drake 6.06 install in a virtual machine. I followed the instructions found here and ran into a slight problem. The default install from Ubuntu do…

I thought I had already posted this, but I looked the other day and didn't find the article, so I'm posting it now... if it's a duplicate, sorry... I'm still using Ubuntu's Dapper Drake 6.06(.1) as a…

Wow... just took a glance at the error_logs and saw numerous errors from Trackbacks and started browsing to find that the last few days we've been weathering a spam storm. Thanks to akismet and anoth…

I ran across a good public record search engine (pretrieve.com) a few weeks back. They've done a good job of integrating many searches/databases into one interface.

I don't know where to file this, but it was interesting to me.... this how-to walks you through a cheap way to make good closeup photos... Basically they have you construct a light tent from a card b…

I don't recall if I've mentioned my Epson stylus photo 825 before, but I've had one for a couple years. The really nice feature (I thought) was the ability to print direct from camera memory cards (a…

and you can't turn it on without an error... Oh boy... last week I first saw this system and it was running less than the minimum amount of memory, so I thought that could be part of the issue. (It c…

Might should have typed this up sooner, but... a while back I did an article on the daylight savings changes with regards to Windows 98 and how timezone editor tzedit could be used to make sure these…

There's an interesting writeup about bestbuy that essentially says they have 2 web sites, one is the public facing website, the other is an internal web site. No big surprise there I suppose, interne…

There are lot's of ways to get a file from one place to another, emailing is the first that many think of. (For larger files I'll usually just upload to a directory on the website and then email a li…

You had to know it would be a matter of time. Not long after I wrote about the limitations of Vista's upgrade version I found this. First let me reset. Previous versions of Windows upgrade versions w…

In the last few days, I had to set up something a bit unusual with apache. Basically the goal was to have apache listen for connections on two different ports (the standard port 80 and an alternate p…

http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/ is an interesting bundle of linux designed to be an out of the box network service swiss army knife of sorts. Here are the network services that it provides.... Kerberos…

As I've mentioned, there are a few older Mandrake (now Mandriva) systems that I maintain and one of the packages that I'm frequently rebuilding for those systems is clamantivirus. Well, 0.90 came out…

http://www.sleuthkit.org/ Sluethkit... is a collection of tools for forensic analysis of a system. Usually it's something that would be done when you've had a suspected rootkit on the system and you …

There are all sorts of these things out there on the market - I saw an ad for the Hawking HWL1 802.11b/g WiFi Locator... and it looked interesting (directional)... I've seen mixed reviews, but some m…

There is a nice collection of tools at www.iwebtool.com, specifically at http://www.iwebtool.com/tools/. It's more than just how google sees your site, there are tools that show how your page ranks a…

A little over a year ago I was doing a web search for my email address (something that's worth doing from time to time.) I ran across my name in a text file hosted at a domain called..... http://www.…

There could be a record number of vulnerabilities addressed next week when Microsoft releases an expected dozen updates for its Windows and Office products. (According to Brian Krebs at the Security …

This is something that really looks interesting. Recently Linspire announced their intent to open source the CNR (Click N Run) concept for installing software, launching a wiki based web site that wo…