Classic Tech Tips Archive

Macromedia Flash player 9 running on linux? Impossible? No... many things that seem impossible, well... aren't This morning there's a good writeup at how-to-forge about installing flash player 9 on l…

There's an article at linux.com that gives a good overview of using testdisk and PhotoRec. Testdisk should be able to recover at the partition level and PhotoRec should be able to just pull the files…

Over the last couple weeks I've gotten persistent and annoying spams from a place that is currently at broadcastemailcompany.com (although they have had variations on their domain during that time.) …

I've added yet another category for "data leaks". This is where I'll put news along the lines of X company leaked data on yyyyy customers. It's unfortunate that this is something that likely happens …

Verizon Wireless accidentally attached the wrong file to an email and wound up broadcasting an Excel spreadsheet with the details of some 5210 customers to about 1800 people. Apparently, they were se…

A couple weeks back, there was a pretty important security update for the Intel Proset Wireless driver. The big problem is that the update was a memory hog and caused porblems. Sans has info on the u…

Memory utilization update. Previous update was security update. Release notes. download.

I NEVER knew you could use screen for this.... Let multiple users connect to the same Console (command shell/bash shell) session simultaneously. I've looked at screen before. It's a great *nix utilit…

A bit over a week ago Dell had a massive recall announced for potentially hazardous laptop computer battery issues. (Flaming laptops.) Now, it's Apple's turn. It seems as though Sony is the common su…

Various vulnerabilities (details) Download link

There used to be a tool called ethereal and then it changed it's name to wireshark. Today a number of security vulnerabilities were disclosed. A new version is available and workarounds. Please upgra…

They're doing what they can at Microsoft to put to rest the notion that IE7 won't make drastic strides in CSS compliance. One of the fronts they're pushing is this detailed listing of CSS fixes that …

Sarc is still in their month of security tips per day and todays is another good one. Todays tip is about monitoring machines, particularly those that "defend" your network. (Mail antivirus scanners/…

Sans had an interesting malware analysis this morning about a blob that appeared to be ascii text (gibberish) that was retrieved by a piece of malware. It turns out that the ascii text was a cleverly…

This morning I was doing a fresh install of Windows XP SP2 into a Virtual Machine. So far, things are fine I went through windowsupdate and found 3 updates the first time, then rebooted and hit windo…

This has been one of the "problem child" patches this time around and it looks as though it's worse than initially thought. Apparently, instead of "just" crashing IE SP1 when viewing compressed http …

One of the things I didn't mention in my first skype post was the "getting skype to work with linux" bit... The version available via urpmi in Mandrake was 1.2, so I installed it (before I had the us…

I've seen skype I just haven't used it personally until very recently. In fact there was a place (dialpad?) that I had used once upon a time for a few free long distance calls online. It was neat, bu…

This was weird and now that the switch is replaced I haven't been able to duplicate it, but let me explain. There was a netgear fs608 (8 port unmanaged) switch plugged into a linksys router (model nu…

NO, I didn't mean to type satellite. Stratellite. This is an idea that I've written on before and I think it has some interesting possibilities. The idea is to positition a large airship (helium ball…

I'm having to make sure I put the date in the title of these posts now.... over the weekend there were rumors of a new powerpoint vulnerability. Sans had an early notice of some trojan droppers using…

I've got a slew of articles open that I've been holding to post about. I've also got a few other things to post, so this may be a busy posting afternoon. There's quite a bit going on here, but things…

A couple weeks ago the hot story was about the demonstration of a vulnerability in a 3rd party wireless card driver on a Mac. The individuals that demonstrated the vulnerability (in a video taped pre…

Incidents.org has been running their security tip a day this month and I really liked this one. It's essentially a way to encrypt your wireless traffic using ssh. That's something I've covered here b…

The title really says most all, it looks like you can get a preconfigured mythtv box starting at $695. Prebuilt, preconfigured no muss/no fuss. (No subscription fees like the tivo's...)