Archive for November, 2005
Damn you TradeMe! Oh… And I broke standards.
Nov 30th
ARGH! I hate TradeMe!!! I’m turning in to my father. I’m trying to get a replacement for odyssey but I’m finding all these other toys. Like a 38RU server rack, or a slightly smaller… both very much on the desired list (its a geek thing). Thing is, if I buy one of these racks, I’m…
Linux is so much fun. ;-)
Nov 30th
I like Crossover Office for a number of reasons, but this screenshot demonstrates just one of them. ;-) This gives us a very interesting insight in to how WindowsUpdate actually determines what needs to be installed on the computer and what doesn’t. If I were a malicious virus/malware writer, I’ve just discovered something significant. Without…
Mwahahahah!
Nov 30th
HAHA! I think I just made enemies of just about every single IE user that will ever visit this blog! ;-) To find out why, browse this site with IE… Go on… I dare you. :-)
"EXTREMELY CRITICAL" unpatched IE flaw
Nov 30th
Well now, I guess today is not a day of raining, but of a whole cyclone. Don’t ignore this one. The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 6.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Internet Explorer 6.0 and Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4. Benjamin Tobias Franz has discovered a vulnerability…
Help! Need to figure this one out.
Nov 30th
Okay everyone. I really need your help. With Odyssey out of picture after putting in at least a good 8 years or so, I’m in need of a replacement. Now, whatever I get to replace odyssey has to be at least as reliable, if not more so. Now heres the problem. I’ve found a machine…
Serious Cisco Security Agent vulnerability
Nov 30th
I haven’t posted this sort of advisory in a while, but given the seriousness of this I thought it might be a good idea for the word to get out a little wider. The following showed up in my inbox this morning. Cisco Security Agent (CSA) is a security software agent that provides threat protection…
I caved in
Nov 30th
Its now after 4:45am and I’ve succumbed to the temptation and gotten myself a copy of the retail/subscription version of TransGaming’s Cedega 5.0.1 in an effort to get Guild Wars running on Linux in a way that is playable. I haven’t tried the game yet as I’ve been busy working on a miriad of other…
Get Firefox
Nov 29th
Everyone knows I’m a massive Firefox freak. Its been that way since the day of the Phoenix alphas (and earlier given I used to use the early Mozilla Suite after Netscape ‘freed’ it) and its no secret I’m also a massive fan of Google. :-) Well, now Google are allowing International publishers to be a…
ARGH!!! How do people use the net with No cache???
Nov 29th
Dammit… I’m missing Odyssey severely already. The internet is soooo much slower with out it. :-( Okay, maybe its not actually slower, it just seems to take longer. No local proxy or DNS just makes things happen that much further down the line. Longer to get to the server, longer to come back to me,…
Surprise! Symantec kills off Sygate firewall range
Nov 29th
Like no one saw this coming. One month after closing the Sygate Technologies takeover, Symantec is cutting the Sygate personal Firewall products because of overlap with the Norton Personal Firewall. The Sygate Personal Firewall and Sygate Personal Firewall Pro products will no longer be available effective Nov. 30, Symantec spokesman Phil Weiler said Monday. Consumers…