Archive for the 'Computers' Category
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
It looks like those shredders that take on optical media nor the physical scraping of the reflective surface is enough for some…. Plextor will be marketing a drive designed to wipe optical media (cd-r/rw dvd+-r/rw single or dual layer.) It essentially fries the colored dye on the disc and it seems that it would be […]
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
By way of Sunbelt blog… The Phishtank at Internet Defence has a realtime archive of phishing emails as well as real time information on the status of their host sites. On their phishing site monitor it says… Send article as PDF
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
That was a quick turn around…. It appears as though some of the multimedia streaming issues were severe enough to require a quick turnaround for Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 Sans had the initial heads up…. But it looks as though it’s now officially out (and labeled as a stability update.) Download page. Send article as […]
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
There are a couple notes to pass along with regards to some pretty serious vulnerabilities in various wireless network adapter drivers. First, Sans has information on some Intel Centrino updates that resolve some vulnerabilities that would affect the Windows Centrino driver and the ProSet management software. F-secure chimes in on this noting that the download […]
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
It seems like I go through this every time I have to search for an SRPM to rebuild… search at rpms.mandrivaclub.com then prompted to login – login… oops wrong password. Login again stranded at main club page….. ok – downloads…. mirror finder. First – there’s no way in the mirror finder to search for SRPMS […]
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Just by way of information….. I’ve seperated out the www.computerrepairasheville.com and www.ashevillecomputerhelp.com domains now to point to a seperate web site with the main goal of simplifying and clarifying my computer services in the Asheville, NC area. I’ll keep the brief page on this site that gives an overview, but the new computerrepairasheville.com domain will […]
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
From the look of it Apple has released a bunch of updates for OS X. A number of security issues are detailed. As always, SANS has some good details and links to more info on each of the ~13 issues. Many of them are legacy bugs if you will from older *nix-based systems. This is […]
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Sometimes you run across a site that’s a browser snob. You know the type…. you visit it in Mozilla Firefox or (anything other than IE) and it says, “you must use Internet Explorer version 6 or newer to use this site. Well, some browsers have nice ways of changing the user agent through the menus, […]
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Again…. this article referring to an exploit related to the cross platform plugin capability in firefox, is a GOOD reminder to be cautious when looking at potential plugins to install for mozilla firefox. In fact, the advice is usually do NOT install software (including plugins) from untrusted sources. By all means, please investigate any piece […]
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Feh….. what a name… well, linux.com has an article up on feh which is a nice lean image viewer for linux. It has quite a few command line switches so it should make cli users happy with the choices and it is nice, lightweight and fast. Send article as PDF
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