Classic Tech Tips Archive

I had to find a twist like that headline above reading this article. Net Applications does a monthly survey across sites that receive 160 million visitors to gauge the "market share" of operating sys…

To make sure you've go the idea that mplayer is really a swiss army knife for media files that can do most anything. I wanted to get a post JUST on this idea. Any media format that mplayer recognizes…

There is a lot of software out there that can capture realmedia online streams for a fee. I've found a way in linux to do the same without buying third party software. The main motivation for this is…

On my (somewhat older) laptop, I've noticed that MPlayer sometimes gets the audio and video out of sync. The audio is moving faster than the video. I've noticed this in octoshape streaming as well as…

I noticed a lot of traffic from alphainventions.com to one of my sites today and took a look to see what it was. It looks like a pretty interesting idea to get viewers to your blog WHEN you're actual…

So, there it is an Apple Mac configured to auto login is now showing a Login screen and it doesn't seem to like any of the usernames and passwords that we could think of. In other words we're locked …

Thank you Brian Krebs of the Security Fix. He has just made the internet a little better place. He's worked for several months investigating a group that is believed to have been hosting provider for…

This looks like a REALLY bad false positive. It appears that AVG 7.5 for a short period of time detected user32.dll as a trojan horse. (trojan horse psw banker4). It looks as though update to the vir…

Ever had to determine if a site was really down or if it was just you that couldn't reach it? If you have access to multiple computer networks you already have some ways to determine if it's a proble…

When I was browsing through Google trends the other day I ran across the phrase BlackFriday.info as a hot search term and my first thought was related to the stock market (historic drops in stock pri…

I just logged into my analytics account over at google and had a strange new view. It showed all the sites in my account with a summary of the code working, traffic up or down and percentage. It look…

I've been using 1000BT switches here for a year or more now, but just today have I run across the need to make a crossover cable. Many 1000BT (*gigabit ethernet) devices support "auto-mdix" which bas…

Php list is a great mailing list manage package. But, from time to time you already have a list of users and want to import without requiring everyone to go through phplists web based signup process.…

I usually try to avoid talking about politics here really because I don't want this to be a political blog. I am going to make an exception right now to talk about a concept. I'm going to try to stay…

The newest release in the Ubuntu Linux series has escaped into the wild today. If you recall the last Ubuntu release was a long term support release and this one is intended to be a bit more "edgy" o…

This is for Mac or Linux. Their servers are VERY busy right now as you might imagine. But, if you've always wondered about crossover wine, see if you can get a copy today at Codeweavers main site. I …

We're back up after a very strange outage. The 500 internal server error was because our .htaccess file was sideways. What I mean by sideways is that part of a line had been truncated which led to an…

I've just discovered hackaday.com. For those of you interested in electronics, computers, engineering/etc..... you'll probably find something interesting to read over there. Each day they will publis…

I've run across this a few places, where a webmaster actually BEGS users NOT to use a firefox plugin or addon when visiting their site. So, I thought it might be interesting to compile a list of thos…

Yesterday news broke of an out of cycle security patch for Windows. The bulletin is available from Microsoft. Apparently the vulnerability was in the Windows Server service (XP, 2003, 2000, 2008, Vis…

I just ran across this good how-to on replacing ads using a proxy server (in this case safesquid). A proxy server is a piece of software that requests web pages for other machines and then passes the…

The telegraph brings us this survey which claims that 10:04 PM is the most creative time of day. To contrast that 4:33PM is the least creative time. It's not clear HOW exactly the survey was conducte…

How many online backup solutions ARE there now? Anyway I've seen another cross platform solution in JungleDisk. It's available for Windows/Mac and Linux and uses Amazon.com's storage as a backend. Th…

Adobe has released the new version 10 of Flash Player. What's notable is that the Linux version is out at the same time as the Windows version. Thanks VERY much to Adobe for making this happen. Linux…

The release candidate for version 0.94.1 of clam antivirus and they are eager for people to get out and test it. There is a new feature in this release called "malware statistics gathering" that will…