2005 January

I guess I have to retract part of my post from yesterday. Crucial doesn’t sell RDRAM. For those who may have been living in a deep cave, without Internet access, for some time, Intel and the RDRAM hardware have parted ways. Permanently. Once Intel found that it was losing business because of the cost of [...]

Secunia Advisory: SA14054
MC.Iglo has discovered a vulnerability in War FTP Daemon, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

Television has been a fixture of our culture for over 50 years. Most people who are around today have grown up with memories that are oriented to that entertainment and educational device. Some of us can’t remember what it was like to NOT have television. There are both good and bad sides to having one. [...]

Advanced Reality, Inc., a company specializing in peer-to-peer collaboration technology, has recently announced Jybe, a free beta release of a new browser-based collaboration service. Jybe enables you to use your browser as the delivery mechanism for co-browsing and PowerPoint presentation sessions that you can invite people to attend.

Gnomie Jerry Whelan writes:
If you have not seen it yet, let me point out to you a really great macro
and automation program called Quick Macros - it really is the best one
I have found. It makes beautiful (and beautifully behaved) toolbars with
buttons than can be assigned to macros; it makes popup menus [...]

The economy isn’t exactly in the best shape that it’s ever been in. Due to financial issues, many companies are having to cut back on their workforce because customers just aren’t demanding certain products like they used to. When you get the pink slip, it can sometimes be extremely hard to move onwards and upwards. [...]

Q: We always hear about the excessive damage that viruses can cause to the software side of our computers, but I was wondering if the hardware is at risk, too. Could this be a big problem?

Broad-based studies of how seniors use the Internet can be extremely useful for teachers planning a course of study. Courses that follow naturally what the students want will be better received than ones that follow what the teacher wants.
The Kaiser Family Trust report which I reviewed extensively in the previous three article was oriented primarily [...]

As we all know, viruses today are a part of computing. There are steps that can be taken to minimize the risk of exposure to viruses, but the truth is that if the end user doesn’t care about receiving viruses, then you will probably not be able to prevent the machine from becoming infected. [...]

Previously, I showed you how to stay virus free. In this mini guide, I will walk you through the simple steps of locking down a Windows XP Home Edition installation.