Classic Tech Tips Archive

This reminds me of the emails that used to circulate claiming that Microsoft and Disney were testing a way to trace email and to keep forwarding the message, when it got to 500 people they all suppos…

There seems to be a new variation on the xml rpc worm spreading about, so patch patch patch. If you have php and vulnerable software on a web facing server, patch.

Software bugs are annoying, frustrating and sometimes expensive and deadly. Wired is running a story on the 10 worst software bugs of all time.

OK - for starters, the keylogger that sunbelt talks about here is a legitimate piece of software for sale. Like anything though it could have illegit uses. Apparently retrocoder is upset that Sunbelt…

One of many people's pet peeves these days is the automated phone systems that have you go through several trees worth of options to find tech support. These are called Integrated Voice Response syst…

I'm going to have get used to that new name. Frankly I liked winex - simple and to the point, it was like DirectX, only WineX.... then they went and changed the name to cedega and I can never remembe…

Well, it looks like Transgaming has released 5.0 of Cedaga Cedega (Winex) on the schedule they announced. And to quote from the release notes here are some of the new features.... Cedega 5.0 is our f…

Now, I am not one of those that finds linux software installation an arcane and difficult path. However, I use mandrake (mandriva) whose urpmi tool (if setup with the correct source repositories) is …

It looks as though Nokia has a neat looking tablet pc that runs linux and is designed to be an internet appliance of sorts. Web browser/email/net radio/pdf viewer and a few other software tools you'd…

There is a Mandriva Linux 2006 review up at mandrake.tips.4.free.fr, which includes a nice primer on "Background: Linux software repositories and software installation"... I think it's nice to see a …

I found this interesting article over at the KDE dot. Starting next week the Brazilian government is promoting a program to sell relatively cheap computers based on Linux (with KDE as the Desktop Env…

If AppleInsider is right, Apple has won around 1 million converts from Windows based pc's to Apple's platform in the past year. In part the transition is credited to the success of the ipod, although…

I'm putting this under software for Windows and Linux, because this is something I've been asked about several times. What kind of clipart comes with OpenOffice.org or with Koffice. There are some sa…

One of the things that I've really not looked at until lately is the use of open source web templates. I don't know why but I've never really paid much attention to the thought of templates outside o…

I'm starting this post in part as a placeholder for some information I've come across. I've been tinkering with my first custom spamassassin rule. I've tried the SARE rulesets and they seem to be mis…

Well, let's see.... I didn't cover the original story since I was covered up with other work, but let me take a stab at starting from the beginning before I tell you how it's gotten worse. It seems t…

The story about the linux satellite that can be yours for a mere $10 million dollars caught my eye as I was skimming news this afternoon. Apparently a company called SpaceDev has launched the product…

It looks as though we can expect one critical update to Windows this week on the monthly patch cycle from Microsoft. Critical updates are for security vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to contro…

As I'm sure you've noticed, I use Google adsense on these pages. Now obviously I can't give statistics on how it does, but frankly what I've seen in the short time I've used it beats any other affili…

There is a linux network worm (virus) in the wild, which I've mentioned already in an earlier post. I did want to take a few moments to highlight this and dispell a few myths. (This is the first linu…

A severe security vulnerability has been found in versions of the Flash Player prior to 7.0.19.0 Many sites require flash player in order to view various features on the site (depending on the site t…

Incidents.org is reporting on attacks against a recent XML-RPC vulnerability in PHP. This would affect users of PostNuke, Drupal, b2evolution, Xoops, WordPress, PHPGroupWare and TikiWiki. As far as I…

Well it shouldn't come as a big surprise, but Microsoft is expected to bundle their anti-spyware product (which will be renamed windows defender) with Vista when the next version of the OS ships. It'…

This should have made it into the last update, but.... it didn't. According to onestat.com and reported at desktoplinux.com the firefox browser is continuing to make market share gains. Now it stands…

For those of us that have adsense on our sites and use firefox... the adsense notifier extension has been updated to handle the new login system for google adsense, and it should notify the user of t…