Classic Tech Tips Archive

One of the changes Internet explorer 7.0 will see is a tightening of restrictions on the zone settings. Currently, there are four security zones for web sites: Internet, Intranet, Trusted Sites and R…

Sony has had a busy day... they've released software to remove the XCP DRM program that was the start of all the recent SONY DRM rootkit controversy. Of course, the original DRM software had multiple…

There's a good how-to at (where else) howtoforge.com on the topic of setting up ubuntu Linux (with samba) as a Primary domain controller for your network of windows machines. This uses tdb instead of…

incidents.org has received a tip on an ebay item that contained some malicious script... ISC reader Gareth Attrill pointed us to an eBay auction that has some escaped HTML code that sneaks in a link …

Once more in the continuing story.... According to freedom-to-tinker, the "fix" released today for the SunnComm/Mediamax DRM software (the "other" DRM software on sony/bmg discs). Is fatally flawed. …

Now, we seem to be getting "coming attractions" previews in virus-land.... Anyway, I've read at several sources that we are to expect a new variation on the sober worm around January 5th, 2006. It's …

What a long journey it's been and there is progress in the Sony DRM story. The main issue in the Sony controversy was the XCP DRM software (Digital Rights Management) which was made by first4internet…

Microsoft has been fined $32 million by South Korea's fair trade commision. They are calling for Microsoft to either remove the Media Player and Instant Messenger from Windows, or include competing s…

There is a good beginners guide to Search engine optimization up at this site.

There's a good writeup on what OpenOffice.org could learn from firefox. It raises some interesting points. One of which is that software can be designed to meet the needs of say, 60% of the market, t…

The title says most all, it's reported that Microsoft will release a public beta of Internet Explorer 7 sometime in the first quarter of 2006. It's unclear if this will be titled Beta 2 (a closed bet…

Think about it: one pc, 3 monitors, 3 keyboards, 3 mice, 3 users all on the same machine at the same time doing different things. Ah yes, some of you are saying terminal clients, been there... Think …

This is for all those people that say to me. "There haven't been any new viruses lately have there?" It's really amazing to me that people think if it's not on the national news it doesn't happen....…

... and the true reason behind that... is the focus of an article today at freedom-to-tinker.com. Continuing on the whole Sony DRM mess... they take a look at the competing DRM methods, some of the "…

This article from enterprise.linux.com is the second on those essential linux command line utilities for system administrators. Covered this time around are netcat, tcpdump, ethereal, nmap, MultiTail…

Last week there was word of a bug in Internet Explorer that would allow users of Google Desktop to be vulnerable to having the files on their machine viewed from a malicious website. Today, there is …

IBM's "Workplace" will support the OpenDocument format according to ZDNet.uk They're expected to aggressively promote their Workplace hosted productivity suite to governments in developing markets. T…

The Register has an opinion piece today on the EFF, claiming that they'll lose their case against Sony. They go back through the history of the EFF and it's "successes?" or not... in the realm of att…

Loose lips sink ships, so the old saying goes. These days documents are emailed back and forth and many times, revisions are made to "polite the text" up or "sanitize" or "redact sensitive informatio…

Freedom-to-tinker.com has some good detailed analysis on Sony's (mis) use of GPL software in their XCP DRM (Digital Rights Management) software that's been at the center of somewhat of a firestorm th…

This is just funny to me (as if it's inviting now....) Rover's find evidence that Mars was once hostile.

Part of the big debate in Massachussetts over the Open Document Format has been it's accessibility by persons with disabilities. The opponents have maintained that it will increase the difficulty of …

Microsoft will be releasing an update to Internet Explorer that changes the way embedded ActiveX controls are loaded. The method of loading embedded controls was at the heart of a lawsuit against Mic…

There was an article in the last few days about Instant messengers being a tempting new vector for viral infections... Well.... Incidents.org has information on a new AIM worm seen in the wild. It do…

Microsoft has been sued by an XBOX 360 owner over the overheating/locking up issues that have previously been reported here and other places around the web. He is looking for classaction status for t…