Classic Tech Tips Archive

Along the lines of information is power. Here's a recent book on Google Hacks that you might find interesting. It goes from some of the trivial stuff to improving search positioning and using the Goo…

I've found The Google Hack honeypot thanks to an entry at sans.org in the handlers diary. I've looked at it and it's an interesting idea. The honeypot installs on your website and is invisibly linked…

For starters, there was this advisory last week in response to a planned talk at a hacker convention on the possibility of a cisco router ipv6 exploit. The advisory detailed a LOCAL exploit and not t…

This is going to be uncategorized because it's out of nowhere. You know, I've wondered many times "who actually bites" for the things advertised in junk mail. You know someone has to. About a year ag…

This article details the Chinese governments tightening of control over what foreign tv, books, newspapers and other media imports. To quote from the article "Import of cultural products contrary to …

According to this report, broadband users watch less tv. Two hours less a week in fact, compared to their non-broadband counterparts (dial up users watch 1.5 hours less than the non connected). It's …

This article details a ruling by the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals that finds the University of Texas did not violate any laws (constitutional or otherwise) by blocking what they deemed junk mail from an…

If you've read some of the earlier posts regarding phishing or junk emails. You've seen that I usually forward details to what's called an abuse admin to deal with the issue. I thought abuse@ was an …

The following is long, but likely not complete. This is a list of open-source software packages: Computer software licensed under an open-source license. Software that fits the Free software definiti…

According to the Newsforge article, Campsite 2.3 is "the most advanced open-source system for news publishing on the web." It's PHP based and more information can be found at the campware website.

This article details an announcement from Yahoo about a new advertising network for small and medium size web publishers. The article compares the service lightly to Googles adsense (more details fro…

One of the topics I plan to steer clear of most of the time here is politics. I don't want this site (essentially for my business), to be engulfed with national political, conservative, liberal, etc.…

I waited until I could find a news article with a pretty picture, this wasn't quite what I was hoping for, as this space walk should have allowed for some excellent views of the shuttle and the earth…

Just found a reference to this product at barrapunto.com. It's a 3GB microdrive in a "big usb cracker"kind of form factor. (Not solid state, it does have moving parts I understand.) It comes with Ubu…

According to cnet news. A new proposed EU law could allow criminal charges and jail time for the bosses of businesses that run software that infringes on someones Intellictual Property. SCO in the la…

A while back I did an article on using Google search in some slightly more advanced ways, as well as a link to a site of specific Google searches. I've come across something in the Handlers diary at …

There is news out of the Mozilla foundation today that they are reorganizing. The Mozilla Corporation will be a "taxable subsidiary" and will be responsible for marketing, distribution and product de…

When I first saw the MSN search page I had to smirk. It reminded me much of the Google search page. It was a nice "clean" layout, take away the blue background and the similarities would be greater. …

I just read at arstechnica that it looks as though Novell is going to try and develop a community around SuSE, much like Red Hat has done with Fedora. They'll be opening up the code at opensuse.org. …

I've mentioned Google Maps several times. *(Microsoft VirtualEarth recently jumped into competition)* Essentially you can browse, search and drag around road maps on the screen, or switch to a satell…

In some cases training resources for open software are lacking. There aren't too many books out there on those topices, the manuals are sometimes neglected, but there are exceptions. OpenOffice.org h…

Newforge has a good article about the city of Kenosha Wisconsin and their experience to linux. They started their "test" about 10 years ago starting with a DNS server and or a mailserver. They've mov…

There's an editorial at Windows IT pro that's trying to hold Microsoft's feet to the fire with the upcoming browser release. Disappointed by yesterdays posting that IE will fail the Acid2 test, Paul …

Open source denotes that the origins of a product are publicly accessible in part or in whole. See Open source (disambiguation) for related topics and other meanings. This article focuses on open sou…

Well, last week I detailed attempts to get one phishing site shut down, then another two sites shut down. All three of those are out of operation now. I've gone after a fourth and it's still up and g…