Classic Tech Tips Archive

Slashdot is running a thread asking for questions for an interview with the head of Microsoft's linux lab, Bill Hilf. The 10-12 highest moderated questions will be asked in the interview which will b…

Apnews has an article on the recent "hacker convention" in Las Vegas. In typical media fashion they paint with a broad brush to display it as "a no-mans land where customary adversaries, feds vs. dig…

I've mentioned a few things about linux livecds in the last few days and thought I would also mention a great tool for testing them. QEMU is a program, available for Linux or Microsoft Windows, that …

If the last article is having you feel a bit nervous about your bluetooth devices.... I've come across this resource on bluetooth security basics. Essentially the big ones are disable what you don't …

This falls under comptuers and security. A new tool has been released that makes it possible to eavesdrop on and send audio messages to, the interior of some vehicles with bluetooth enabled with an i…

Apple Mac Users that have longed for innovation in mouse design can, starting today, order a Mighty Mouse. Apple has released a mouse now with more than one button. Mighty Mouse does give some intere…

I see that The Register is reporting that 802.11n rivals have agreed to cooperate on the new standard. 802.11n is to be the wireless networking successor to 802.11a and 802.11b and 802.11g. One of th…

Oh my some people have time on their hands. I just found Linux, Unix, /etc/: Unix Weblog Hacks where the writer says they wanted to do a weblog, but didn't want to go with a big blog hosting service,…

According to an article from libertad digital (spanish) Steve Ballmer, of Microsoft has said that Microsoft will defeat their rivals, Google and Yahoo for dominance on the web. A more direct translat…

A Melbourne based open source firm has lodged a complaint with that country's Competition and Consumer Commision against Microsoft. According to The Computer Business Review online, they claim that M…

Over the weekend or just before, there was an announcement out about the discovery of a 10th planet beyond Pluto. For starters, there's lots of debate over whether even Pluto should still be consider…

Most people use Internet Explorer for windows and why not? It's preinstalled on every Windows PC. Well, there are a number of reasons to consider using another product. One is security. I'm not about…

In the IEblog there are some comments on what will occur regarding standards compliance and CSS rendering in the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7. There is a list of "finally" fixes that will …

This one makes into the hardware AND software categories. I don't remember how many times I've replaced a failing hard drive. Usually the biggest headache and anxiety is if you'll be able to get any …

According to barrapunto.org, there is a new entry in the toolset of making flash animation under linux. It's called Qflash and looks as though it's in the early stages, but supports swf output. This …

Another in the line of great linux articles from IBM. This article details using a linux livecd to assess computer system (and network) security. It's a good overview with some relevant links.

Sometimes I find that people are surprised that you could replace just the monitor (the display) of your computer without replacing the tower (the part that holds the CPU and drives). You can though …

I've had somewhat of an addiction to the different linux livecds. I can't seem to help but find it interesting to download and try a new one even if it's just slightly different from another I've see…

There is a review of Xandros 3.0 Business edition up at xyzcomputing Xandros is a linux distribution designed for Windows users (or at least those migrating from Windows.) The review hits the highlig…

Okay, I just saw a review of a new tech toy and feel compelled to mention it. Partly, because it fits in the neat stuff area and partly out of being impressed at devices packing more and better featu…

Since it's related to the web, I'll post it here. According to The Times Online (UK), tens of websites linked to Al-Qaeda have abruptly vanished from the web. Apparently, it's suspected that British …

According to this article, the Opera web browser has been reporting itself to web sites with a user-agent that includes Internet explorer. As of the next release it appears that will be dropped by de…

One of the things that apparently is commonly overlooked in the area of computer security is what happens to the data on your hard drive when you get a new computer. I just read an article at geoffre…

This is a weird one and I'm posting this mostly for my own reference so I can recall this when I run across it again. About 6-10 months ago a client of mine was having problems accessing web login pa…

I talk quite a bit about computer viruses and computer security on this site. It's probably one of the bigger problems that I grapple with for my customers. Today I'm going to talk about the biggest …