Classic Tech Tips Archive

Google has released a new plugin for firefox that synchronizes various settings from one pc to another making use of a google account. Essentially, it saves certain preferences from your browser to y…

Microsoft says they need to do a better job about disclosing this, but the Genuine Advantage tool contacts Microsoft daily. It doesn't do this to track your browsing or downloading habits, but to che…

You know, I've seen soooo many antivirus vendors that are somewhat ethically challanged claim that cookie files are a big threat, or in worse cases files that the "free" antivirus test downloaded are…

The Register had an interesting article on the analysis of what may get classified as the worlds oldest computer (2000 years old - Greek.) Apparently it's been known for a while (discovered in an old…

Incidents.org had an entry in the last couple days on a malware infestation that was interesting and showed a couple things. 1) You can't bet on antivirus to keep you safe (the initial installer was …

I saw this yesterday or day before... George Ou has said that Microsoft should move user data to it's own volume (or partition). He is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. I think these days the default install for any…

While I was testing out the "single cut and paste" linux vnc remote desktop sharing script and x11vnc binary.... I spent a fair amount of time booting up livecd's n qemu to test various distributions…

I've tried to ask myself if I'd trust someone enough to let them run a remote session on my own desktop to solve a problem. I think the answer is "it depends". If you think about it, I do tech suppor…

So, I had the script all ready, I've got my x11vnc custom compiled to be as widely compatible as possible, I've tested thoroughly on the internal network. The next step was to test my x11vnc "one cut…

Well, I've got a nice way of doing "easy" one click (or one cut and paste) light desktop support for windows or linux, one uses ultravnc sc, the other uses x11vnc with a special wrapper script. So, w…

I've got to say, one of the things I really like about linux are the myriad of options for remotely administering a system. SSH is the one I use the most, but for the graphical you have x (especially…

As I said in the earlier posts, I was essentially looking for a "Single click" solution for linux VNC remote desktop support. A solution that doesn't require the remote support client to change firew…

So, the idea is that I wanted something "like" the Ultranvnc Single Click download, only for linux. The main idea being is that if someone is looking for a bit of desktop tech support on linux, we do…

Ok, some time back I'd done a writeup on UltraVNC SC, which is a nice customizable (windows version) VNC server that essentially let's someone doing remote support build their own downloadable .exe t…

It's funny, some days there seems to be nothing happen that really is outstanding or different, or noteworthy. I don't know, you see the same news stories, feel like you fix the same problems, etc...…

It's hard to believe it's time for a version 5 of knoppix, but ... I guess it is. I was just booting up Knoppix 4 in a qemu session last night and already several days behind 5... Anyway, Knoppix 5 w…

If you haven't heard of this yet, I'm not quite sure how you've missed it since last night... There have been article, after article telling of Google's intention to release a limited trial of their …

Just an update to let you know I've recompiled the src rpm's from Cooker for Mozilla 1.5.0.4 (For Mandriva 2006) and am uploading them to a subdirectory in https://www.averyjparker.com/wp-content/dow…

I don't know, it seems excessively wine-y to gripe about an operating system that isn't released yet, but I've seen people do that about linux quite a bit.... (why doesn't xyz work in beta 1 of _____…

This looks neat.... Noaa has started releasing kml files which are compatible of course, with Google Earth, to mesh the satellite imagery of Google earth with real-time weather information. It's cove…

In what feels like a continuation of recent bad news related to major hacks and data losses.....George Ou reports on a BIG hack of GoDaddy hosting customers. There was also a big hack-athon by Turkis…

I haven't seen news to this yet, just found it on Mozilla.com, but the 1.5.0.4 release of firefox seems to have been released sometime today. (1.5.0.4 of Thunderbird was announced earlier today.) I d…

Embarrasing.... and a big pain in the neck for any of their visitors... It seems as though if you've visited Circuit City's Support Forum with an unpatched Internet Explorer, you likely have a trojan…

The Register is reporting on Ernst & Young's loss of a laptop which had information on around 243,000 hotels.com customers. Apparently Hotels.com was notified on May 3rd. Apparently the laptop made u…

How often do I get to talk about this? Yahoo News has an article on a couple who, a year ago, took their PC to Best Buy to have the hard drive swapped. Best Buy assured them that the drive would be d…