Classic Tech Tips Archive

Do you tire of XP's blue screen text.... is it too drab and dry? Well you too can spice up your blue screen text.... This is not for the faint of heart when it comes to tinkering with "important file…

For Windows system administrators that have sweated over the perils of usb drives and memory sticks.... Intelliadmin has a tool for you. It's a small utility that will allow to remotely disable usb d…

There are a number of vulnerabilities that are currently unpatched, but have working publicly known exploits for Excel (*2) and Internet Explorer (2 vulnerabilities here as well.) Proof of Concept co…

There are several issues fixed by a bundle of updates for OS X (for 10.4 up to 10.4.6). The new release is 10.4.7 There are a number of issues fixed in addition to at least 3 security related problem…

Gbuy, Gcheckout, Google Payments etc.... the news has been circulating for months - Google will compete with Paypal. Well, Google Checkout has finally launched and is being covered by most every outl…

The Freedos has suspended development. It's been a 12 year project and really, Freedos has become THE free DOS implementation around. It's been shipped with "blank" pc's, integrated into several othe…

Last week I got a notice of this warning.... it seems that scammers are sending out emails claiming to be from the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.) and the email claims that the government will…

In the last week there was a well documented writeup of a cross site scripting vulnerability which had allowed a phisher to pose as a paypal login with THE LEGIT PAYPAL SSL CERTIFICATE.... Brian Kreb…

Sometimes drives just go bad. Surprise. One recent fresh install of Windows XP had started having real stability problems. On running a chkdsk and looking at the event viewer, it was fairly clear tha…

OK - there have been a number of Excel problems floating around in the last week - week and a half. Securiteam blog has a FAQ on the Excel 0-day vulnerabilities with Excel and Excel Viewer Incidents.…

Of course, I've spent some time with posts on VMware player (free download to "play" existing vmware images). And more recently on the VMware server which is also a free download but can create image…

Last week our Church held annual Vacation Bible School and I am just now catching up on some of the items I've been intending to post over that period, so.... today will likely be a fairly active pos…

As I've mentioned I've got an ubuntu based test system. Most of my linux experience has been from a red-hat derivitive-based background and for that, at the command line, you have chkconfig which is …

There are a few Google related stories of the last few days to catch up. 1)55 Ways to have fun with Google is an e-book available for purchase on Amazon or Lulu.com, but it's also avaiable as a free …

Sometime last week, the news story of a French competitor to Google Maps called Geoportail.fr caught my attention and I took a look at the page. It caught my eye because the initial article boasted 2…

What follows are some notes taken on vmware server. Most are related to an install on ubuntu-server (NO GUI INSTALLED).... the main point of this is to have the host system take as FEW resources away…

What follows are some notes that I've taken on the Vista beta that I installed into a VM. I've got a lot of toying around yet to do with it (and at least one Internet Explorer bug I want to mention.)…

I've heard rumors of how the 802.11 pre-n wireless networking hardware really KILLS nearby 802.11 wireless b/g networks. Today George Ou has some details. I really think this is a serious problem wit…

Yes, it's another wolf in sheeps clothing. This time around Sunbelt is reporting on "Trust cleaner". Keep your eyes out for this one, among other things it plants an altered version of the Google pag…

Hot on the heels of the Microsoft Word patch there's a new threat to Microsoft Office. This vulnerability is with Excel documents. According to the MS security response center blog, they've received …

Adobe has released updates to Acrobat Reader for Windows and Mac systems. I don't see any mention of linux in the advisories, but I do see that the linux version available for download is now 7.0.8 a…

Several days ago I mentioned vistatorrent.com that had copied the Windows Vista download into a bittorrent tracker and allowed bittorrent downloads of the DVD iso. Well, they've received a cease and …

I thought it might be worth mentioning a few little bits of Google news. Much like the Linux and Windows search areas at google (linux search and windows search)... They've launched a Portal (?) givi…

OK - just fresh off solving the reason I couldn't get vmplayer to start on my 1Ghz AMD 64 1GB of memory machine.... I started looking at vmserver. (RC1). Now, vmplayer is a free download (so is vmwar…

Updates for Windows for the month of June are out today and it looks like some list! 12 updates covering 20 or more vulnerabilities. MANY of these are tagged as critical. (Critical vulnerabilities ar…