Classic Tech Tips Archive

I have spent about a week with the 2x page open in one of my browsers. I've been trying to get to know PXES' new incarnation. For background. PXES was hosted on sourceforge.net and was an attempt at …

I've got to say, I haven't spent ENOUGH time with rsync to really be fluent in how I could put it to use.... A week or so ago I was reading this list of essential Linux software by a guy that moved f…

I just read that Codeweavers has managed to get World of Warcraft working in Crossover Office in their development builds it should be possible. Of course, it's been possible for some time to run it …

As most people have heard, the World Cup is over. Italy has won and a month-long tournament to choose the true WORLD champion of Soccer (outside the US football) is over. Thirty-two nations sent thei…

I saw this ZDNet post today with a tantalizing glimpse of Gdrive. It comes originally from cocaman.ch where he found a login page for something called Google Platypus, which is essentially a remotely…

and Internet Explorer use has dropped below 80% in the US. Currently 12.93% of online users browse with Firefox. Almost 40% of German web-browsers use Firefox to view the web. It's nice to see Firefo…

I really couldn't find a quick answer to this on this in a quick search. Maybe it's just me. But, one of the computers that I support has UPS Worldship installed on it. (Version 8.0.16 I think.) They…

One of the frustrating things about windows is having to wander through X number of menus looking for a specific item that you KNOW is there, but just can't quite find. If ONLY you remembered the com…

Sunbeltblog has the heads up on this one. Spyheal is the name it goes by and it hangs out at spyheal (dot) com So, if you're in a position to block sites that looks like one to filter for your networ…

USB thumb drives seem fairly simple, nothing hazardous.... but Lexar has recalled several models of the Firefly series as well as the JumpDrive Secure II, 1GB model. The affected Firefly sizes are...…

Looks as though Google (as in... "I've spent the afternoon googling for information on ski vacations.") is now officially part of the English language according to the Oxford English dictionary. Of c…

We can expect 7 updates next week from Microsoft on the monthly patch day for July. Four of the updates will be for Windows, and 3 for Microsoft Office. There will be at least one critical update for…

A couple days ago I had a brief article on the vandals banging away at the door of my ssh server. Like I said, I've, at times, been fairly smug abou the futility of their actions, but.... the persist…

July 11th will mark the end of Microsoft's support for Windows 98 and ME. Which means that there will be no further security updates for those systems after that date. In SOME ways, those systems may…

Analyzing the state of the computer world.... Sophos Antivirus has suggested that consumers consider a Mac for their next PC if they're concerned about the increasing swarm of malware targetting Wind…

The last few days I've been heavily researching the purchase of a camcorder. I guess I can't just go out and pick something, I have to research at a number of levels. (Editorial reviews, user reviews…

The five Dapper Drake Kubuntu 6.06 LTS disks that I requested in the week or so before release arrived in the mail today. Thanks Canonical. Yes, I do a lot of downloading, but a professionally presse…

I really like printers with their own built in print server. They can be plugged into the network and some operating systems can just find them. Unfortunately most of the time Windows doesn't just fi…

Sometimes you just want to cry... I found this email exchange via sunbeltblog.... Essentially, the product manager and marketing director at some unknown company have just become aware that the "Abou…

I hope there aren't too many browser developers that have planned on taking July off..... I ran across browserfun.blogspot.com where it is planned to release information on a web browser vulnerabilit…

Sometimes I wish I wasn't curious about things.... The other night I was working on something on the testbox in the back room and saw the switch lights flickering fairly actively between the server a…

As I was searching online this weekend for something ubuntu related... I ran across this nice reference Wiki.... ubuntuguide.org. They've got a good Ubuntu new user guide and also a few things Mandri…

A couple days ago there was a release of Mac OS X 10.4.7 which addressed several security flaws. There is now an exploit published for one of these vulnerabilities. The attacker using this exploit co…

Version 2.0.3 of OpenOffice.org has been released. It includes quite a few bugfixes, including three security related fixes. The security vulnerabilities were apparently found in an internal audit. O…

The great firewall of China may be just an illusion in technical terms. This article describes the details of how things work.... Basically when "banned content" is detected, both ends of the connect…