Classic Tech Tips Archive

Security update (release notes) http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86638&release_id=437903

I have a page that I've been working on that gives me direct links to the administration and stat pages for many sites including my own, but also those that I host. It also has links to various and s…

It was just announced that there is a VMWare image available for download that includes SuSE 10.1 with KDE 3.5.4 installed and it's also been updated to the most current releases of the other desktop…

In my wife's profile on the desktop she said she was getting an error message sending and receiving messages so.... when doing a send/receive of mail I saw evolution giving an error message of "summa…

HDR - recently I heard someone talking about this with regards to digital imaging. The idea is that you have three identical images (landscapes) taken from a stationary (tripod) camera. The only diff…

Some time back I complained about the Google indexing of the site after the Big Daddy upgrade. For a good while before Big Daddy, there was usually about a week delay between me posting and there bei…

There were several articles about a new "wardriving" technique that was talked about at Defcon (this topic and a bit more Defcon coverage here). In fact, this takes the driving out of the mix and inv…

Linux.com has a great writeup on making banner images quickly and easily from the command line (or a script). The catch here is that text is the content for the image. Under linux that will require t…

One of the real frustrations with phone tech support is translating step by step what is needed to the person on the other end. I know it sounds easy, but in reality - what if they've got xyz theme f…

According to incidents.org a denial of service vulnerability has been noted in all versions of clamav prior to 0.88.4 (inclusive). At incidents last report the download for 0.88.4 was back after disa…

There was a time when people looked to shape images for political benefit. (I mean political in most ALL senses of the word whether it's domestic or international or issue oriented politics etc.) By …

Backwards compatibility. It's something that many vendors strive for and Microsoft is certainly one that has placed a value on making things backwards compatible for third party software. According t…

Security Focus has a brief that refers to a WMF zero-day vulnerability that affects Windows XP SP2. I suspect this may get a bit of coverage throughout the day. It appears as though there are actuall…

It looks as though VMWare is looking to test some of their software for the Mac. Unlike Parallels desktop, Vmware's offering will be geared more towards a corporate environment.

I use wget a LOT. Many times in working with a website I've got a ssh console opened to the site and if there's a plugin that I'd like to download it doesn't make sense to download and then upload, I…

In working on the post related to software updates and making sure it was easy to find the category feed JUST for that led me on a "round the world" kind of quest to find a way to put the category fe…

The computer security landscape today is such that pretty much ALL software, whether it's Operating System, Office Suite, Web browser or device driver is at any given time "the weakest link". One of …

Surprise.... The AP is reporting that the music industry is suing limewire. There are several companies involved and they're seeking compensatory and punitive damages. They argue that limewire encour…

Incidents.org has some reports of false positives reported by Grisoft's AVG antivirus running on Windows XP (SP1).... The false positive was with a file named C:\i386\REG.EXE which is a legit file fr…

The Channelinsider is reporting that Lenovo will be the first tier one OEM to preinstall a linux distribution on generally available PC's. For years, you either had to order large volume, or find a s…

SunbeltBlog is talking about a new sign that Google is stepping up to try to protect users against potentially malicious sites. They have a screenshot, which I was able to verify, that gives a warnin…

The Register sums up the Black Hat briefings pretty well. The Operating System level has received a lot of scrutiny in recent years for security flaws and as a result there has been a good deal of im…

There were demonstrations of some nasty javascript attacks at Black Hat as well (as if the wireless driver issues wasn't a big enough problem...) Javascript is a powerful language and can be used for…

"All you need to know about network security in one chart!!" I found an ad for this at javvin.com In addition to the "network security" charts.... they have other references.... "network communicatio…

I saw this by way of SunbeltBLog yesterday.... workfriendly.net.... you basically enter a web address and choose which "microsoft office theme" you want to use and the page is presented as if it was …