Classic Tech Tips Archive
Salvaged posts from the original averyjparker.com tech blog — Windows, Linux, security, and hardware troubleshooting. Preserved for SEO value and long-tail usefulness.
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Open Source (linux) giving new life to some older software
Internet news has an article about open source (specifically the GPL license) giving new life to several old software ideas. Gopher is mentioned as is the atari 2600, amiga os among others. Also, the…
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Australia to ask Google Maps to pull images over security concerns
According to this article, Australia will ask Google to pull satellite photos of its only Nuclear plant. It's worth noting that several locations in the US Capital are either reduced resolution or bl…
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Linux code drastically improved
According to this writeup(in spanish), an analysis of linux kernel code in the 2.6.12 version compared to 2.6.9 is drastically improved. Coverity, makes software tools that analyze source code for er…
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Catching up on weekend news
I'm catching up a bit on some of the news from over the weekend.
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Huge identity theft ring discovered by spyware research
Sunbelt blog, reports that they have uncovered a MASSIVE amount of personal data, ranging from usernames to passwords to banking information and much more while investigating spyware. They found keyl…
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Ways to deal with Junk Mail (2 of 2)
Okay, in a previous post I talked about a server side solution for junk mail filtering. Now it's time to ask.... "what if I can't install filtering software on our mailserver?" Here is one way to dea…
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Special Post - 60th Anniversary of Hiroshima
Please see my post at North Carolina Genealogy.net
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Monad will not be in Windows Vista
I wrote earlier about "proof of concept" viruses that targeted Monad, the next generation command shell from Microsoft. There had been talk that Monad would ship with Windows Vista and so some people…
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Wikipedia to apply more stringent content rules
According to El Pais, the wikipedia will begin applying more strict rules to the content of articles and revisions. The wikipedia is a large publicly collaborated encyclopedia at wikipedia.org. Among…
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Ways to deal with Junk Mail (1 of 2)
Who hasn't ever seen junk mail? From the offers for prescription drugs to offers for who knows what. Some mail programs give you a way to filter out different senders, but the senders of junk mail ar…
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Google Maps hybrid map seems more complete
A short while back, I compared MSN Virtual Earth and Google Maps, one of the things I noted was that the hybrid feature of MSN's map was somewhat more complete, however I found a few errors. (The hyb…
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Mail Viruses Junk Spam Phishing and now Dark?
Okay, I've seen a new term come across the horizon in the battle of the email inbox. First there were viruses, then junk mail, which became known as Spam and then Phishing attacks now we're up to Dar…
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Mandriva wins another Government convert to linux from NT
According to Mandriva's community newsletter, they've landed a contract with the French Ministry of Agriculture and Fishing. The deal will replace outdated Windows NT servers with Mandriva Linux Corp…
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Good linux desktop search
This article at mozillaquest.com gives a highlight of their search for a good linux desktop system. Mandriva (formerly Mandrake) finds itself facing off against Xandros. All in all, some good things …
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Get counted at the linux counter
One of the problems with "free software" that can be downloaded and installed on multiple machines without expense or legal recourse, is that it's sometimes hard to know how many people run it. Yes, …
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Wireless ethernet security
Flexbeta has an article giving a good primer on the different approaches to wireless security that are currently available and what seems to be on track for the next generation of wireless networking…
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Planning for disaster recovery
This covers all operating systems really. What would happen if your hard drive crashed right now? What data would you lose? What about if the server room flooded? What if your mission critical system…
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Google not talking to cnet?
According to the tail end of this article, Google has decided they are not talking to CNET new reporters until July 2006. Yet another good example of why it's a good thing to have competition in the …
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Server Outage
There is one domain that I host which are on a server that has had some major "issues", backups are in the process of being reloaded and the current estimate is that they will be back up in about two…
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Suspicious Emails inderectly leading to virus infection
According to The August 4th entry of the isc.sans.org handlers diary, there are some peculiar emails going around. They claim to be for an article claiming an explosion kills 140 in Iraq. It contains…
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Windows 2000 Worm vulnerability
Apparently, there is an unpatched vulnerability in Windows 2000 that could open the door for a network worm. The details have not been released to give Microsoft time to deal with a patch. (Microsoft…
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Microsoft to release 6 updates Tuesday August 9th
According to this release, expect to see 6 updates coming out from Microsoft Tuesday. One will be tagged critical from what I read. It seems like this is a bit large number this time around, but stil…
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Windows Vista virus
I know I saw this yesterday somewhere (The Register?), but..... According to this article, proof of concept viruses have already been written for Monad, which is Microsoft's next revision of the comm…
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Yahoo ! has launched Audio Search
Yahoo! has released an Audio search. It not only allows a search of some of the freely available audio on the net, but according to this article, it searches the catalogs of online music services (su…
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Collection of Open Source software for Windows
This is a quick link to a downloadable cd of open source software for windows. There is a sizable list of programs. It appears as though some are not open source, but are free. If you have a fast eno…