Classic Tech Tips Archive

I know it's not an ipod... but I'm looking forward to hearing some word when Fronteir Labs releases their "Nexblack". For background.... the nexblack is priced at around $89 (at the frontier labs sto…

I've played around with NXserver before and been impressed with it's speed (and quality) of remote X desktop over slow connections. It's been about a year since I've actively looked at it, but I foun…

ZDNet's the Open Source blog is talking about a possible Classaction suit against the wikipedia. He calls it the next SCO suit and summarizes things like this... The SCO suits were an attempt to shut…

Enterprise Linux has a good article on some handy aliases under linux that can make CLI usage much more handy. The only warning I would have is to be careful that an alias you want to create doesn't …

A South Korean man claims that Microsoft hid information about a flaw in Windows and has filed suit against the Operating System maker. Jang Young-ha, 47, filed the lawsuit against Microsoft with the…

There is a trojan making the rounds that is acquired by clicking on links in an email. That's not necessarily new, however.... this email represents itself as an authentic-looking Microsoft security …

Now it appears that the Illionois Attorney General is also investigating Sony in relation to the recent DRM software debacle related to their XCP Digital Rights Management software. her office has re…

For some time I've meant to do a post on some of my favorite places to find odd electronics components (and surplus stuff...) Something about electronics components is that there's so much potential.…

The Hindustan times has an article on the latest round of India vs. Pakistani hacker/IT online skirmishes. It sounds as though there has been a recent rash of back and forth with Pakistani cracker gr…

Incidents.org has a note on a recently noted trojan.spaxe.exe, that when on a system will mimic the windows notification dialogue "bubble" near the system tray with the following text. "Your computer…

When the news was first out that an antivirus firm (f-secure) had cracked the psuedo-random algorithm that the sober worm uses to determine where to download "updates" from, they said that they had p…

Infoworld has an interesting article this afternoon, that suggests that Microsoft may pay users of their MSN search out of the ad revenue that Microsoft earns from their new adertising service. Speak…

ZDnet has this article today of an ebay auction for information on a Microsoft Excel vulnerability that the auction-seller had notified Microsoft of. An online auction of a "brand new vulnerability" …

An editor at tech republic gave a challange not too long ago to Linux users to step up and offer articles along the lines of the top 10 things to do before hooking a linux pc up to the internet. Clic…

Freedom-to-tinker once again has continued analysis of the whole Sony DRM mess. They basically have taken a look at the ways of protecting an audio cd. Active protection (using software to prevent th…

There's a bit more detail in this betanews article on the sober worm. They basically say that the next expected "release" is January 8th, that f-secure has cracked the "code" of the worm. You see it …

I put vulnerability in quotes because it's looking less like a problem. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Here's the situation. Both Sans and Mozilla have failed to duplicate the crash although have duplica…

The internet was developed essentially with a couple of goals in mind. One of those goals was to have a distributed means of communications that would be resilient to nuclear attack. The idea was thi…

December's rendition of Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday will feature two critical security fixes. The malicious software removal tool will also be updated... Additionally, Microsoft will issue two …

Surprise!!... ummm wait, no... This article has come out while I've been in the midst of cleaning up a Windows ME pc that has been "0\/\/ned" (owned/controlled...) by someone other than the owner for…

According to a GAO report one of the reasons that phishing and scam websites are because of a lack of enforcement and policing by registrars of accurate contact information. According to their study …

In looking at my Google Analytics info.... I checked on the Northcarolinagenealogy.net site's stats and found that it's really dropped since about Friday or Saturday from decent traffic to next to no…

Migrating Outlook Express data from one machine to another. Addresses are easy to export... file export Address Book gives a good option to CSV (comma seperated value) output. Which is a nice common …

The Virtual Earth project at MSN will become local.live.com competing with other local search tools from Google and others. There will be some new features. It looks as though one is a 45 degree angl…

Incidents.org has reported on the first announced vulnerability with Mozilla Firefox 1.5 since it's release. The vulnerability is along these lines. History of visited sites is kept in a file called …