Classic Tech Tips Archive

Sans has updated their chart that illustrates Microsoft's August patches. They've updated it to give information about the problems that have been reported with now 2 of this months patches (MS06-040…

The other day I was struggling with something that should have worked "out of the box". It was a little wireless bridge (Linksys WET54G Wireless-G Ethernet Bridge). The idea was to just connect it to…

WMV and WMA file formats (Windows Media Video and Windows Media Audio) have been one of those sore spots for desktop linux. Yes, I KNOW mplayer and other players can handle them. (If the codecs are i…

There are a couple of stories on the "Google front" today. First up Coupons tied into Google location searching (maps.) More details at the Adwords blog. (BTW, this is open to US businesses, an Adwor…

Some time back, there was a Risk clone using Google maps which was interesting, but taken offline due to a legal letter. Well, I have had a long interest in strategy games.... (Risk/Axis&Allies and v…

Security Update to a previously announced vulnerability. squirrelmail.org download page.

Or lack of currently available patch as the case may be. From the previous link it appears that there was at least one previously announced vulnerability that was not addressed in the recent patch da…

MS06-040 is one of last weeks Windows updates and is the one that was probably the biggest target for "wormable" activity. There's a good deal of news from over the weekend with regards to this. Firs…

Incidents.org is reporting on the defacement of a security related web site (winsnort.com). They say they usually decline to comment on those because the attention is what the defacers thrive on. How…

This is worth reading if you've got a Dell laptop. There have been numerous stories in recent months of Dell laptops exploding into flames and it looks as though now over 4 million batteries from the…

Looks like RFID passports are coming very soon for the US. It was probably just a matter of time, but in light of some of the risks in the current implementation, I thought it might be delayed. The m…

I'm quite frustrated this evening. Another long day of computer problems and tonight I come in to around the tenth call from a collection agency. The kicker in this case is that it's not for me, but …

The new Docsis 3.0 standard has been finalized and it allows for 160Mbps or more downstream and 120Mbps upstream. It also will support IPv6. Of course, in order to support those speeds cable system h…

It looks as though Ubuntu has released the first maintenance release in the Dapper Drake life cycle. So, now 6.06.1 can be downloaded. (In analagous terms this might be considered the first service p…

Security vulnerability. Download page

A new version of Ruby on Rails has been released in response to a critical security vulnerability. The link will take you to information at incidents.org. 1.1.5 is the new version and should be compa…

The big computer security news of the day is the release of exploit code publicly for MS06-040. The patch of course was released Tuesday and it is fairly critical to get the update installed. This is…

I'm such a sucker for technology sometimes.... I'm into too many things it seems. I do computer repair which can keep things fairly busy, I keep up with this and a slew of other websites which is ano…

I finally got the Mandriva 2006 rpms rebuilt for Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6. I 've been running it for a bit and it and all seems well. Of course, this is always at your own risk. https://www.averyjpark…

You can find updated rpms for Mandrake 10.0 of the recent clamantivirus update at https://www.averyjparker.com/wp-content/downloads/clamav-0.88.4/.

Yahoo has launched an update to their siteexplorer. Site Explorer is an interface for website operators/designers to log in to yahoo and authenticate their "ownership" over the site sot hat you can f…

Multiple security issues. (August 2006 Patch day). Details update.microsoft.com

Between the Lines is warning that Blackberry Enterprise servers ought to be placed in the DMZ (if not already.) There is word that a critical vulnerability will be announced on August 14th. (And if w…

Incidents.org has an initial list of the updates today from Microsoft, there is also a brief from Microsoft on the updates. It appears as though one is Powerpoint specific, another is Office releated…

As I said, I mistakenly uploaded a page of links that I use for the main administration across many sites to this domain. Unfortunately, the server preferred using the index.html to the index.php tha…