Classic Tech Tips Archive

I found a post at slashdot that Google Talk is already live. Earlier in the day there was talk (sorry...) that they were using Jabber. It looks like this person has found a way to login with his Gmai…

The rumor mill is in full swing as USA joins in to report that sources are saying that Google Talk will be launched as early as Wednesday. They suggest that it will be instant messaging AND voice mes…

Given how easy it is for people to be fooled by phishing sites, you would think banks would try and keep as many "easy ways to identify a legitimate bank site" as possible wouldn't you? I mean, user-…

I've been playing around with qemu lately and there is a little tip I ran into that helps in getting the kqemu module running if you have Win4lin installed. This is from the Win4Lin support because T…

Wow, was that 24 hours? After noticing that Google had changed somethings related to adsense, I mentioned that the adsense plugin for Firefox had quit working. This afternoon I discovered that the ad…

The Mandrivaclub has a new Download MirrorFinder, it works much like easyurpmi to find sources of Mandrake RPM's (including plf). You have to be a club member to access it. It looks like you can setu…

Distroreviews has an article up reviewing the release of a freespire livecd. Did I say freespire? Yes, it's a free clone of linspire. They've basically taken out all linspire proprietary addons and b…

Slashdot is reporting, as well as other sources, that Google is preparing the launch of an Instant Messenger. One story suggests that Google is running a jabber server on talk.google.com Jabber is an…

About 6 months ago I had a customer call with a bit of a crisis. They had deleted some folders in Outlook without realizing the cleared out a few things they NEEDED to keep. Up until then I hadn't ha…

US-CERT is addressing the issue of spyware. According to Spyware Confidential, they've released a document (pdf) on the matter, including techniques to guard against spyware. Education and awareness …

I found this one at The sunbelt blog, very good article referencing a talk on wireless network security by Xavier Ashe. He highlights these trends: * Wireless threats are increasing exponentially * T…

You've probably noticed the Google Adsense ads throughout the site. I have a couple of tools that I use to monitor adsense and one is a firefox plugin that tracks impressions. This afternoon it went …

It sounds as though the distributions of Linux based on debian are trying to define a standard base to work from. It looks as though the disunity among various debian derivitives has prompted a move …

CNN and others note the passing of Robert "Bob" Moog today. He was really a pioneer of the synthesizer. He has lived in Asheville for some years. I remember way back in grade school he came to our sc…

The dust over the zotob worm infection has settled a bit at this point. (You can bet there are still infected machines out there though so if you haven't patched yet - DO IT and check for signs of in…

Slow morning computer news-wise. The only thing that's really caught my eye is the release by Google of Google Desktop v. 2 In addition to it's desktop search capabilities it adds rss in a sidebar (n…

I'm getting a new flush of strange junk mails the last day. Most have a subject of either "EIN (Einer!!) Menschenhaendler und Brandstifter laueft frei herum" or a slight variation "EIN Menschenhaendl…

The other day I did a post about Sunbelt mentioning another big identity theft ring. That post that I referred to has been pulled from their site. I'm not quite sure what to make of this but will kee…

This caught my attention for some reason. I guess because steganography is such an unusual word and because the list of uses has been covered so much in the news. I found this article talking about h…

So here's the sumup of my (now working and with plenty of free space) Windows XP install within QEMU. Well, for starters the XP disc I had was an upgrade disc and as I noted before it did not like th…

Well, of course, you know that Google offers search services in a long list of languages. They can be found at the main Google page by going to the "Language tools" link to the right of the search bo…

There are a number of Windows applications that may not have suitable replacements under linux. I know a lot of people that have considered switching, but there was "one program holding them back." F…

No, not red or white. I'm talking Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) , which allows windows applications to run under linux. One of the sites that I've found that has some great tips regarding Wine is Fr…

The infocon level at incidents.org has been lowered back to green although there is still no patch for this issue from Microsoft and the threat still exists. They like to use the higher level to get …

There was an update at Incidents.org on the Zotob worm and specifically an advisory related to Cisco products. From their site.... **snipped from NISCC** "Affected Products ================= If the s…