Classic Tech Tips Archive

One of the "project machines" I've had that's been retired from other service was to become a "storage server" this week. The twin 250GB drives had arrived and I was ready to setup a RAID1 array (mir…

Vmware has launched a tool (windows only it seems) aimed to convert a REAL running system into a virtual machine. (For use with VMWare's virtualization products. The converter also can convert images…

If you've been delaying on updating with the recent Apple Mac OS X updates.... don't, there are exploits in the wild now for at least one. It's speculated that this code may have been in the wild bef…

Not too long ago there was an article about how people reveal too much about their lives in Google (or other web) calendars AND MAKE PUBLIC.... well I think this takes it a step further. Gmail let's …

Several days ago there were announcements of the release of Mandriva 2007, only thing was, the download wasn't available yet. Well, today the download appears available. I haven't looked to see what …

Sorry, I'll have to wrap up for the evening. I got to the end of the internet.

I've got to say, I've almost wondered if the Zoom H4 was true vaporware the last few days. it's supposed to be received by various vendors (around October 1st-3rd) and I still haven't seen ONE first …

Apple is fixing 15 security flaws with the 10.4.8 version upgrade of Mac OS X. (There is a second update as well.... Security Update 2006-006). In typical fashion there are a bundle of issues in thes…

Mac OS X v10.4.8 / Security Update 2006-006 Multiple security updates Apple Downloads

So, I was formatting a drive the other day. It's an external hard drive that will need to be readable AND writable by both Mac and Windows XP machines. So, the only choice (without paying for MacDriv…

For starters, if you're using Windows 98 or ME still in a production system, you REALLY need to be looking at migration options and you should realize that the architecture of those systems is NOT co…

I saw a comment somewhere else that zero-day was overused and in essense ANY previously unknown vulnerability in open source software is technically zero day... the intent here though is to use the w…

Sometimes you feel like the little Dutch boy of myth/legend with his finger trying to plug the hole in a dam.... Incidents bring us this as well.... another powerpoint vulnerability seems to have bee…

Translation - Microsoft patched one vulnerability another surfaces.... Incidents.org brings us the frustrating news.... If you remember the month of browser bugs series of exploits back in July, ther…

The big news this afternoon is that Microsoft HAS gone out of the routine patch cycle to release a security fix for the VML vulnerability that's been actively exploited in recent days for everything …

Just catching up on the days VML vulnerability news from today.... It looks as though... the exploit is now MUCH more widespread this blog has some video of an infection, what's notable is that the f…

So, I mentioned a few weeks back that I was really starting to look again at audio equipment. I have a planned project that I would really like to capture high quality direct to digital audio for and…

Do you remember the big bruhaha a month or so back about the "apple wireless vulnerability" that everybody picked apart because in the video taped demonstration they used a third party card.... EVEN …

Sunbelt is still finding fake codec sites.... This most recent site is mpcodec.com and the ip address of 69.50.160.58 (I had to do a doubletake as THIS site (averyjparker.com) is hosted at 69.36.180.…

SO, there's the second big vulnerability exploit for Internet Explorer making the rounds in about a week and Microsoft's advisory says that the most recent flaw will likely be patched on October's pa…

Around the time of this latest IE exploit hitting the web, there was also mention of some publicly available CWSandbox sites for the submission of malware. It's an analysis tool that can give you a r…

The last zero day (activeX) seems to be less interesting than this NEW zero-day that really made a news splash in the last day. It looks as though this NEW 0-day affects VML... Incidents.org has good…

This time around, the zero day is related to Internet Explorer and activex... (directanimation specifically). Incidents has a good update on the issue. This is a second exploit, there was another at …

As I've just posted to the security-update-notice category, Firefox and Thunderbird both have been released in 1.5.0.7 version.... the release fixes a number of known security issues and you should u…

Multiple Security updates release notes. download