Computer Tips -Tech Info

This one was hard to categorize…. There is a rumor about that Apple and Google are about to announce something related to iTunes availability at Google. There is a story that mentions this rumor saying that    Send article as PDF   

A few days ago I wrote about linux alternatives. Along those lines comes DesktopBSD. Based on Freebsd, this project released a second release canditate for their 1.0 release on August 10.    Send article as PDF   

I can’t say I’m surprised, it makes sense. Plain old telephone service (POTS) can be tapped, and now that VOIP is coming into it’s own, the FBI and others need new ways of tapping the conversations. CNET is reporting on one such initiative that seems to be proving successful at the first step towards tapping […]

Desktop Linux reported Friday that Thinkfree office has promoted their $49.95 office suite at LinuxWorld (last week.) This is Thinkfree Office 3. It’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Supports Microsoft office file formats, has a Microsoft-Office-like interface and “critical feature compatibility”.    Send article as PDF   

Wow – alphabet soup…. The National Instititute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a National Vulnerability Database (NVD) sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Divison US-CERT (US Computer Emergency Response Team). It looks like it will be a nice one place stop to find a good deal of current info.    Send […]

It looks as though CoolWebSearch has issued a release about the massive identity theft ring that their product name has featured so prominently in. They are 1) denying that it is related to their tool and asking for evidence that it does so they may pursue the issue (fire employees/contact FBI), 2) considering lawsuits against […]

According to the counter at spreadfirefox.com, Firefox has now surpassed 80 million downloads. (Well 80.1 million when I looked.) Version 1.0 of Mozilla Firefox was released ~9 months ago.    Send article as PDF   

There are a series of articles at this site on the install and configuration of pcbsd, which I mentioned recently as a linux alternative. PCBSD is built on freebsd and is designed to be a desktop operating system.    Send article as PDF   

According to The Sans handlers diary, a worm exploiting one of the security vulnerabilities disclosed last week by Microsoft, is in the wild and spreading. The worm tagged as zotob.a exploits the ms05-039 vulnerability. (Sans reminds us that ms02-039 was the vuln. targetted by the slammer worm. Interesting coincidence.) They are still at infocon yellow. […]

Good news on the WordPress front. A new release has been, well, released. Version 1.5.2 is a bugfix/security fix release. On the heels of an August 10th security advisory. The release announcement is available here.    Send article as PDF