Classic Tech Tips Archive

I just came across this article about wine-doors which sounds VERY promising. Of course, let me set the stage. Wine is a windows compatibility api for linux. The goal of wine is to allow windows appl…

The last couple days, there's been a virus spreading making use of yahoo mail's interface. Usually web mail is considered a fairly safe way to get email, but in this case all that was done was the us…

After spending about 5 days using wget to resume the download of the vista beta 2 .iso file (which is a bit over 3 GB). I finally gave up seeing as how that 5 days had netted me about 2-3 MB of data.…

One of the big linux news stories yesterday was the release of google earth for linux. Essentially the Google earth team has released "release 4" which is a beta version of the next release. It looks…

As you might recall some time back I talked about the release of vmplayer which is a free virtual machine "player" from vmware. Mostly, I wrote about the problems I had running it on my main desktop …

While, I'm still waiting to get the Vista Beta download

A while back there were rumors of Google Payments, a Paypal competitor on the way. Well, if this is right, it will be named GBuy and will be launched June 28th. Also, it sounds as though there may be…

Wolves in sheeps clothing are the label I give to those rogue antispyware, or antivirus programs that bring pests instead of protect against them, or are otherwise questionable in their tactics. Tita…

According to reuters data on US Nuclear Safety Administration employees (*some 1500) was stolen in a computer cracking incident. The NNSA is a semi-autonomous arm of the Energy Department and also gu…

I mentioned the other day revisiting the qemu site to discover new versions of both qemu and the non-redistributable kernel module kqemu (qemu is now at version 0.8.1 and kqemu is at 1.3.0pre7). Ther…

These days, big inventions aren't entirely new creations, but improvements on an old idea. This latest in a string of interesting science/technology breakthrough stories is about just that. Researche…

It turns out that Windows 98 is just too hard for Microsoft to support with a security patch for MS06-15 now. The official support period ends in July, but they've announced that this one won't be ge…

Ethereal has quite a reputation for itself, I've used it in analyzing traffic on the home network and experimenting with virtual images... anyway, it's a packet sniffer and network protocol analyzer …

For anybody that didn't notice, the World Cup has gotten underway in Germany. (For those that haven't heard - every 4 years there's a world football championship (here in the US we call it soccer).) …

This is a cautionary tale about bank fraud for anyone that sells things. (online or otherwise). A man sold a car online, the buyer sent a check for several thousand more than the buying price. He cla…

The Official Google blog passes along the release of the Google Video Player for Mac. I'm impressed at the universal binary which means it should work on either PPC or Intel architecture. Here's the …

Sometimes you just want to cry... This writeup is an example of the "soft underbelly" of every network's security plan... the users. Basically, you have a group that was hired to do a computer securi…

It sounds like this vulnerability would take a great deal of user interaction, but cio-today is reporting on a browser vulnerability that affects pretty much every javascript enabled browser. Accordi…

It's about that time again folks.... Monthly Microsoft patch cycle - June patches will be released on the 13th (next Tuesday) and it looks like a big batch. There should be 12 patches this time and a…

By the way, the castlecops dos has reminded me of something that I hope I've mentioned before, but will mention again. They have a page castlecops.com/pirt where you can either copy/paste an entire p…

It went un-noticed by most people for a few years. After all, the ones that were affected were just those that were "asking for it". Where to start. Let's see, back in the day there were some that se…

This was too cool not to comment on.... Scientists at MIT have developed a kind of plastic which can attract/repel water (at the same time). Essentially, the article has photos of some of the tests. …

ADTMAG.com has an interesting article talking of the convergance of spyware and more sophisticated phishing attacks. They talk about the convergance of viruses and spam engines that happened in 2003 …

It's quite a dilemma when a software product is billed as more secure than another.... several days back when Mozilla Firefox released v. 1.5.0.4 which fixed a number of security issues, I saw someon…

Yes, this is legitimate and officially sanctioned. Microsoft is releasing the beta version of Vista Ultimate for download. This page gives details on the download. It is also possible to request a dv…