Classic Tech Tips Archive

As I've mentioned, in the last week, I've released a CD through lulu.com and I've also done a calendar, one of the frustrations I've had was the inability to do an ftpupload. My username and password…

This is a fairly significant "state of this site" type post and well... if you're a usual visitor you might want to read/skim this one. It's been about 15 months or so since the last big redesign of …

There are a couple new software packages in wordpress' family: MuPress which is a multiuser (and multi-site) wordpress archicture... is available. IF that had been available a year ago, I might have …

I remember the question from long ago, we had just shared a printer across a windows network and.... wait for it.... "oh, well could I share my scanner too?" On windows the typical answer was NO, at …

and the script kiddies rejoiced... It reads as though Metasploit 3 will make it easier than ever for script kiddies everywhere to take full advantage of the local wireless hotspots. Of course, metasp…

Lacie has released a tool to write the back of cds using HP's lightscribe technology under linux. I seem to recall there being a possibility of future support in k3b, but I don't think that has been …

Another issue was reported with the new IE 7 and confirmed by Microsoft. It seems that it's possible for a malicious link to spoof the information in the address bar (make it look like you're at a si…

The newest Ubuntu (K/X/Edu as well) is out, Edgy Eft 6.10 is finalized and will be supported for 18 months. (Longer support/users seeking stable proven base should stick with Dapper Drake...) One of …

I'm tempted to say "long live the cd...", but... EMI's CEO has declared that the CD is dead. He does point out that you're not likely to give your Aunt an iTunes download, so "dead" just means "in de…

Several blog posts have heralded the arrival of Google's newest toy, a custom search engine setup... sort of Through Google Coop you can design a search engine that only covers the sites you want it …

from the command line in linux... or generating them from Wavs.... So, I've got this CD that I've made and is up for sale at lulu.com traditional hymns done as "chimes". I've spent quite a bit of tim…

Mozilla has released the 2.0 release of the Firefox web browser. Among the new features is built in spellcheck and javascript 1.7 support. However, there are critiques that are critical of the User I…

I just re-visited sitemaps last night to take a look at some of the new tools they've rolled out. Google announced that they were adding a few features in the last couple days. Crawl statistics (and …

Now... available in Beta form... The Linux version of the Flash player has been stuck at 7 for some time, while many sites require flash 8 for video/etc... (The page to find the beta download is here…

sunbelt blog has yet MORE fake codec sites to watch out for. All are bad and should be AVOIDED... details after the jump.... IP: 85.255.118.195 vccodec(dot)com IP: 69.50.188.109 hqcodec(dot)com IP: 6…

Looks as though IE 7 release is imminent and will be in automatic updates on November 1st. Here's one persons take on the user interface "improvements". Now, there are many improvements in core funct…

Ebay is apparently aware of some problems with their new "Sell your item" tool and linux web browsers. The linux.com article above says that they tried with several browsers windows/linux/mac and the…

If Microsoft patched 101 flaws in one release it would make big headlines - so this deserves some headlines too.... more coverage at incidents.org

If you're interested I've got a "first impressions" look at the Zoom H4 over on the ashevillemusiclessons.com site. I couldn't decide where it would be more appropriate to post.....

Along the way on my permissions nightmare last night, I made matters worse by changing permissions on a fairly important file. In order to fix that I was going to need to reboot from a boot disk. The…

Yikes, what an evening..... it started innocently enough in the afternoon. I have an old Mandrake 10.0 server that I was upgrading clamav on (recent security update). While I was at it, I was reviewi…

Clamav antivirus software - multiple security issues addressed with release of 0.88.5 project page, release notes binary download links source download

I've been using vmware server quite a bit of course, I've mentioned it before. I had never played around with accessing a usb device in the guest environment though. When I tried (host operating syst…

As you mgiht can tell, I've been trying to "clear the deck" of posts that I've been meaning to put up. Some are just links to several pages that I've kept up for a few days because it was interesting…

I saw this great article from enterprise.linux.com giving some good ideas on some of the interesting things that can be done with curl. (Curl is a command line application for accessing URL's (web/ft…