Classic Tech Tips Archive

This is going to be a reference to a really great site. I've used this several times and it's wonderful. ss64.com Is a reference site that gives you a command lookup for Windows, Linux, Apple OS X, a…

Last week cooltech had an article on an inkjet printer buyers guide. This week they follow up with a Laser Printer buying guide. Personally I've got an old (bought it used) HP Laserjet 4p that I woul…

For some time the only way to get an RSS feed of google news was through third party scrapers. Well, according to The Google Blog. Now there are two flavors of OFFICIAL news feed from Google. The pag…

It caught me by surprise at first. I had done a search and got the following... "We're sorry... ... but we can't process your request right now. A computer virus or spyware application is sending us …

Over at the Security Fix, Brian Krebs is talking about spyware and the fact that keeping up-to-date on patches, and running current antivirus with current definitions is not enough to protect your ma…

This item is coming from infoworld. It looks as though Siebel will be supporting their CRM software on linux (Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9). They didn't comment on other supported distribu…

Linux.com has an article about ToVid, a utility to help convert video into VCD format. ToVid started out as just a VCD imager for mpeg files, but has expanded to be able to handle most video formats …

There is a good posting at the zdnet blogs talking about proprietary standards and why they are not a good thing in comparison to open standards. The talk specifically mentions Microsoft Word documen…

It looks as though the OpenSuSE site is open for business. Several days ago there was a story that Novell was opening SuSE up to build a community model much like Red Hat has with Fedora.

Cnet news is reporting a breakthrough in chip design that could reduce the cost of cell phones to the $20 mark. The chip design combines the function of several chips in just one. Now, in the U.S., I…

It's an older post, but I just discovered it.... July 21st... spware confidential reports on a virus masquerading as an itunes installer that actually brings along some adware (4 different applicatio…

Cnet news is reporting that the department of Homeland Security is using RFID at U.S. borders. The RFID chips are implanted in the "Customs and Border Protection Form I-94A" document which is used to…

Zdnet is reporting that a British broadband company, NTL is upping their Cable internet speed rto 10Mbps at no charge by the end of the year. Other competitors in the UK are already at 8Mbps for thei…

I guess this is a sign that Google has made it, There is a class action suit against Google. According to Yahoo News (Reuters sourcing), a suit is filed that Google charged in excess of the daily bud…

News.com (cnet) is reporting that Yahoo has surpassed Google in sheer numbers of items indexed in their search engine. Currently Yahoo has 20 billion documents and images, Google claims 11.3 billion.…

Sunbeltblog has another update related to their earlier story about the massive identity theft ring. In this story they make clear that the keylogger was NOT directly related to coolwebsearch. It was…

I was just browsing Sourceforge.net and looking at the most downloaded software and something from NASA caught my eye. It's called World Wind. The link is to their home page (not the project page.) I…

PClinuxonline.com is reporting that there is a zdnet article concerning Intel's investment in Open Source software. Specifically the article is about Intel's support of the Xen Virtualization Technol…

It looks as though IBM has some ideas about revolutionizing the way data on the internet is searched. Instead of keyword based searching, they will release technology that allows searching of concept…

This will likely not last long, but according to this post at bit-tech.net, the author went to windows update to try to download directx on his linux machine just to see if it would work. (I assume h…

HP will be making their virus throttler software avialable for Linux. Their virus throttler software detects compromised machines on a network, mails the administrator and throttles network connectio…

As background for this, I've used Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva) for my main desktop since around 8.2 I can't remember quite how long ago that's been, but around 3 to 4 years I think. The why is somet…

I've just read a great article by Eric Wolfram on Google Search optimization. Well, it's probably not a new article it's been around for a while. I saw it referenced at marketingtom.com from February…

I usually work on desktop computers and so have complaints from time to time about the way desktop computer manufacturers design access to their components. They're improving overall, but sometimes y…

It looks as though Gentoo 2005.1 has been released. The ModWiki.org's tech blog has mentioned it. Of course for more details you can look at the main gentoo site. Gentoo is a Linux distribution that …