Classic Tech Tips Archive

This isn't actually news in the "new" sense, but to many people this is newsworthy. From slashdot... aselabs is running a bit on DSL linux on an older laptop (Pentium 266MMX with 64 MB RAM). Most peo…

Incidents.org has a post on a DNS server outage for Worldnic. Which effects a number of Network Solutions customers. Apparently they're aware of the problem and are working on a fix. It doesn't affec…

The securityfix has a post on the "dirty little secret" about antivirus. Eugene Kaspersky of Kaspersky antivirus has posted an introspective article on the antivirus industry and it's current problem…

George Ou at ZDnet is mystified (as many of us are) at why Microsoft can't patch ALL their security vulnerabilities. Most of the unpatched vulnerabilities are considered minor (as was the 6 month old…

ZDnet UK has another article on how many businesses prefer to make a move to open source software fairly quietly. This should be no surprise really given the news and circus-type feel some of the pub…

It was nice to see linux on the business desktop getting a serious look at zdnet.uk It looks like they give a fair run down of the main business class applications (Office Suite/email/etc.) While poi…

I hadn't heard of this distro before, but read at distrowatch, that Troppix has released version 1.2 of their livecd. It supports many wireless chipsets, is aimed to improve look and feel and include…

ABC News has an article weighing in on the renewed browser wars in a comparison of the upcoming release of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. Basically, they say that those with little motivation …

InPhase Technologies (lucent spinoff) is readying an optical storage drive that can hold 300GB per disc. It's expected to read and write 10 times faster than current DVD drives and uses "Tapestry hol…

Couldn't pass this engadget entry up. It's a treadmill for first-person shooter games. The idea is that the characters walking/running speed is controlled by the speed of the player walking on the tr…

How many times have I seen this, a dual-boot system with a sideways Master Boot Record (MBR). This is one of those ways that Windows systems sometimes don't "play well with others". This tip at linux…

Most of the visitors to this site already know about this, but I thought it might be worth an article. I remember an application years ago (1993?) that would let you setup multiple news sources and w…

For those of you feeling somewhat cramped by the 4.5-9GB capacity of current single/dual layer dvds.... The inquirer has a story on what is coming.... Ricoh believes that by 2008 they can produce a 2…

Well, Analytics is still getting up to speed. For the last week or so, new signups at the new Google analytics site had been suspended (and they suspended existing users from adding a site for monito…

Opera Software has released an update to the Opera web browser. The update addresses 2 security flaws. One flaw was related to the FlashPlayer plugin, the other was a code execution bug and affected …

Search Engine watch has reported on a less controversial alternative to the Google Book Search (formerly Google Print). Less controversial, of course from the standpoint of Book publishers and those …

Word has it that Mozilla Firefox 1.5 will be released Tuesday, November 29th, 2005. It's gone through three release candidates and a number of betas. I think there are some good improvements from wha…

Again I haven't been big into console gaming, but here's a bit more XBox 360 news that I've run across. First up, is the Free60 project, whose aim is to port linux and darwin to the new XBOX 360 hard…

One of the other things I had hoped to do this weekend was play around with the new VMWare player. VMware is a company that makes virtual machine software, the entry level pricing usually starting at…

The securityfix is reporting that Scottrade, one of the larger online brokers, has announced details of a security compromise that has put a good deal of customer information at risk. It looks as tho…

It's too bad that Symantec will be killing off a free personal firewall. I guess they didn't like supporting competition for their (large) Internet Security with included firewall... About three mont…

The last post was disabling unwanted sounds on a laptop running Mandriva 2006.... this is about an archive of Creative Commons licensed audio free for the downloading. The Freesound project boasts a …

Ok, one of the first things that I got annoyed with in the new Mandriva 2006 install on the laptop was the event triggered sounds. Popup notification window one sound, error message - glass breaking,…

Well the saga continues. I suspect there will be a three as I get all software installed and mention tips and tweaks. III may not be named as such, I may just do a series of articles on little things…

Oooops... According to the Sunbelt blog a Japanese storage maker (I-O Data Device) has offered to exchange drives that were discovered to have been shipped out with the Tompai-A, a worm which would g…