Classic Tech Tips Archive

New category for Google Adsense - I talk about it enough here.... anyway. I've noticed today that they've expanded the referrals program. When it started, the deal was $1 for Mozilla Firefox (with Go…

I really like a lot of features about Wordpress. One is the ability to start a draft post and hang on to it indefinitely. If you haven't noticed, I've spent a good part of the afternoon cleaning out …

Recently I had a dillemma of sorts. I had a document that had printed to pdf.... each page to it's own pdf. I didnt' have time to spend figuring out how to make the document print to one multi-page p…

Search engine rankings are one of the concepts that I think is vaguely understood. It's amazing to me how a subtle change in a series of search terms (or quoting a pair of words) can so drastically a…

Or at least Google may be.... stories here and here. The way the Register puts it is that Google is in an arms race with blog spammers, with tools out that can create 100 blogs in 24 minutes and shop…

I don't know if I've mentioned it before here, but languages are one of the things that fascinate me. I've studied Spanish, German and French. Although right now I would barely be able to recognize a…

Now that the April patches have been patched.... it's time to look forward to what updates we'll be seeing from Microsoft this coming Tuesday May 9th... There are 3 expected updates for May, 2 for Wi…

By default the apache install for most sites now restricts directory browsing. It's a good idea, you don't want just ANYTHING to be browsable on a web server, but there comes a time that it makes lif…

Since I have a few old Mandrake 10.0 servers out there churning along, I've rebuilt the Clamav package to reflect the recent security fix version 0.88.2 is up on the site at https://www.averyjparker.…

I can't tell you how many times I've seen this complaint from the bash shell when trying to remove a bunch of files. In this case, I was trying to clear a directory where log rotating had run amuck a…

In the last couple days there have been new security releases of both clamantivirus (0.88.2 is now the current) and Mozilla-Firefox (1.0.3 is the current release over there). If you use either of the…

There have been rumors for (years?) a long time at least, that google was preparing something known as cl2 which would be a calendar with full gmail integration. There were screenshots, many of which…

There's a utility called Thumbs that looks like a good quick way to make a cd launch a web documented on autoplay in Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/ ...Of course, autoplay under windows is fairly easy t…

I found an interesting link through The Sunbeltblog on the "do not do business with" list... I don't think this is a NEW thing really, for years there have been government policies against doing busi…

Looks like an interesting patch day. Looks like there are several bugs covered by the cumulative IE patch... Sans has a good writeup (7 CVE issues addressed by this 1 patch....) Also the Eolas Active…

Since, I've still got a few older Mandrake 10 installs that I'm maintaining as mailservers, there aren't supported security fixes for various things anymore... Friday there was news of a new clamanti…

There is ANOTHER IE vulnerability that's come across the news in the last week. It seems that this is currently only a Proof of Concept, I'll have to check and see if anyone's reported seeing this in…

I've made mention I think that I use the stattraq plugin for wordpress as one of the ways to see where traffic is coming from on the site, etc. etc. etc. I think I mentioned it as one of my stat trac…

The multi-OS virus may be a proof of concept, but it could be a sign of bad things to come. Let's face it, there have been viruses that have taken advantage of multiple ways of spreading (email/open …

For around 3-4 months now I've had a REALLY annoying problem with the wordpress install on this site. Trackbacks suddenly stopped working. Somewhere around my 800th post or so while the WMF vulnerabi…

So, I spent the better part of the evening doing Wordpress updates to get 5 blogs up to v. 2.0.2 and now..... clamav has multiple vulnerabilities ............... oi.... now it's time to rebuild clama…

I had undertaken an update earlier this evening to a "sister site" here.... the onlineradiotv.com site had started out as a wordpress 2.0 site and I thought it would likely be the easiest to upgrade …

To change the Google theme of the afternoon.... Microsoft is due to release their April updates this coming Tuesday (April 11th.) Advance bulletin is here. Four updates affecting Windows, one affecti…

I remember a time when I enjoyed April Fools - when I was real little I'd try the outlandish "there's a tiger in the front yard" kind of stuff, later, perhaps more subtle.... but I've NEVER been a fa…

I've noticed that the information in Google Sitemaps continues to improve. For instance in the list of search terms and the average top position which is something that previously was quite tedious t…