Classic Tech Tips Archive

So many times, even in the last few days, I have talked about keeping software up-to-date. For many people that means upgrading to the latest version of windows as soon as it comes out, or Office, or…

OK, I'm prompted to post this because for the 2nd time this month I've received an "I'm changing my email address" message. In both cases, what appear to be 100-200 email addresses were all in the To…

Well, how long ago was I talking about phishing attacks? Just a few posts back it seems and in my inbox this evening was the above subject line. It's almost funny, since I don't actually HAVE an acco…

Ok, so with the post on the shortwave schedule viewer software, I got the idea to mention a site I've played with and think is a pretty neat idea. Of course, part of the concept of shortwave is, with…

Wow, I've been hoping for this for quite a while. Of course, I've mentioned that I use Google Maps quite a bit. They have had a satellite view and regular map view which has been invaluable. Sometime…

Microsoft frowned at for smiley patent You've got to be kidding. Apparently Microsoft has applied for a paten that translates a sequence of characters into a smiley face :-) I've typed that in with c…

Ok, I have too many interests. One of them is listening to shortwave radio. I guess in many ways I'm a news junky. Also, I'm working on my Spanish so, listening to shortwave gives me vast listening r…

I just read a great article at blogbusinessworld I think he's got the right idea. Essentially, the point of the article is that blogs tend to interlink and form "content specific" communites. Politic…

OK, so you've received a Powerpoint presentation that you NEED to view, but can't So the first reaction is to run out and buy Microsoft Office right? Well, no that doesn't have to be the first choice…

Okay, so we know that having an antivirus scanner on a windows desktop is VERY necessary. Especially if it's a system that has any contact with the outside world. So, what to choose. Well, of course …

I think it was last night on the local news, they led with a story about a local family that, during a recent thunderstorm heard/saw a very close lightning hit. They had some nice film footage of a t…

OK, I'm just seeing the news that Microsoft has announced the name for the next version of Windows which has gone under the working name of Longhorn. It's going to be Windows Vista That may take some…

I suspect you've probably got a fair share of these, I know I pull my hair out everytime I see someone forward one to their closest 400 friends and include me. Virus warnings. Viruses, are something …

Google is a search tool which I use literally every day. Sometimes it's multiple times per day. Sometimes I can't imagine how I would function without being able to do a quick google search. There ar…

OK - well if you know what phishing is. You may already be ahead of the game. By now you've probably seen the messages. From:security@yourbank.com to:youremailaddress@isp.com subject:Security breach …

Ok. I have a bit of time that I can sit down and get a little more detailed on what specifically happened late last week that shut the site down for a couple days. At one point, I had updated the ezc…

It occured to me that I may not have brought things to a neat conclusion on the post earlier about tracking email header data. I did make reference to sending an abuse report. Here's an attempt to cl…

For some time now, I've used Google Maps fairly extensively. I love the ability to drag the street maps around and the inclusion of Satellite imagery has been absolutely fantastic and at the same tim…

This is one that I've probably talked about before, but it's worth rehashing because of a call I had this afternoon. A customer had been receiving phone calls and email messages from folks asking tha…

I've got all traces of the old cms system off of the server now. (Well there might be a README here or there, but all php scripts from the old CMS are now gone.) At this point I can disclose a bit ab…

I don't know how many know, but one of my sidelines (hobbies) over the years has been Genealogy. Sometimes I've had more time for it than others. The last couple of years it hasn't been something I'v…

I've copied over several of the older posts from the ezcontents layout of the site. I think I'll skip moving the "virus of the moment, watch out for...." posts. The ones that I've chosen are a bit mo…

Well, after spending a couple days looking at Wordpress, I've now promoted it to be the main site layout. This software offers several improvements over what I've been using and if you are interested…

This is an interesting moment... since last night I've been tinkering with wordpress. I've got it installed in a test directory. This afternoon I spent some time moving old posts over to wordpress fr…

I just saw this article at zdnet news a few minutes ago. Basically a new security bulletin is out with regards to Windows Remote Desktop Server being vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) attack. E…