Classic Tech Tips Archive

Ok - browser as OS is a term that has been thrown about and speculated on. The concept is to provide a set of applications through ANY web browser such that it's suitable for doing the majority of yo…

I don't know about this, and will be curious to see what the answer is.... barrapunto.com had the link to a post from a Gmail user who notes... Gmail has the capability to have a feed of your new mes…

Another entry from the "how do the good guys keep from getting their pants sued off..." files. Freedom-to-tinker has an entry on their application for a DMCA waiver. (The DMCA (among other things) ma…

It still looks like Google Analytics may be adding those that requested to be emailed when signups were available. I've noticed the last couple days the stats are MUCH more recent. It's currently 20:…

Off topic - Space pictures have always held a special fascination for me and today when I ran across this one I couldn't resist mentioning it. Maybe it's all the space-related movies growing up, or j…

I saw a link yesterday about Gmail adding virus scanning to their featureset. It's very good to see, they have very good junk filtering at this point and had a blanket policy that .exe's were banned …

How can I say this.... this is one of the worst ideas I think I've heard this week from an ISP. (Maybe in a long time, but I'd have to think on that a few minutes.) An executive at Bellsouth thinks t…

Linux devices has a story on the Linksys WRT54G wireless routers. The WRT54G has been known for quite a while to be running linux and a community has sprouted up with customized software to add many …

This is something I've wanted to build for some time. I hadn't actually thought about a terrabyte of storage, but... linux journal has the article on making your own home network backup storage solut…

I really don't know how a SMALL operation can do any kind of software scanning with all the.... legal challenges to have to answer to. Of course, I suppose some don't, they just cave and their scanne…

Kerio Personal firewall will be acquired by Sunbelt according to the sunbeltblog. It looks as though the acquisition will be complete within a month. They hope to offer downloads "within weeks". Ther…

Well, truth be told, your money is the target. Phishers are using information on a real class-action settlement to try to lure people in to entering sensitive information. The FBI is warning on these…

A lot of things javascript have made the "web 2.0" idea what it is (Ajax and all), well, the new Mozilla-Firefox supports a canvas tag. To my limited understanding of it (at this point), allows some …

It's funny, in the last couple days 180solutions had a blog post that was somewhat... what's the term I'm looking for ? well they were quite defensive and concerned about "anti-spyware zealots" about…

Looks like Windows Live Mail Beta has seen an update, this beta program is open to those that request to partake from what I see and is Microsoft's next generation replacement for Hotmail. It looks l…

News continues on the Sony mess.... (Expect to hear about this for some time...) The researcher that informed the world about the Sony DRM rootkit, Mark Russinovich, has joined the class-action suit …

Yahoo is offering RSS reading through email folders, in part countering moves by Google with their Reader web-based RSS aggregator. Apparently, posts show up looking like mail messages and can be for…

An exploit for last weeks zero-day (0-day) javascript vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer is in the wild. I saw this post from Sunbelt a couple nights ago go up and disappear, at the time …

A new phishing scheme is promising tax refunds in the amoutn of over $500 to recipients of the scam. Sophos has an advisory. It looks pretty devious - asking people to type in the link address (or co…

13 Seperate vulnerabilities are addressed by the latest Apple security updates. 9 vulnerabilites exist in network facing services like the web server, a couple in the web browser, another couple in S…

As a couple earlier posts showed having a log file of what happens when Microsoft Outlook checks mail can be essential to figuring out why something is not happening that should (or why something is …

Incidents.org has the story on Sun's release of new versions of the Java Runtime Environment and the Java SDK to fix some remote security vulnerabilities. These security vulnerabilities could allow m…

This is part II, click here for part one of the saga... Okay, so I revisit to install Microsoft Office 2003 SP2 and hope that solves it. Somewhere along this time, I had also found a suggestion of re…

This will likely be a multi-part story because it turns out the solution was one of the more obscure things I think I've run into AND I thought it was worth "dumping" everything I found out in the pr…

Betanews is reporting that Microsoft has a competitor to Google Base in the works already, fremont.live.com is currently restricted to MS employees but a broader beta is claimed to be coming later th…