Category: Technology

I should say up front that I am *not* a slave to eye candy. I’m a system/network admin, so if there’s any eye candy around, it’s likely to be various monitors that alert me, visually, to trouble of one sort or another. However, I’ve found a really useful piece of eye candy in KDE 3.4,…

A recent BBC article reports that network security researchers have discovered that over 1,000,000 home user PCs have been hijacked by viruses/worms/trojans to collaborate, forcibly, on bringing down websites, spread spam, and propagate viruses. Networks of collaborating “zombie” computers called “botnets” are formed from these machines, the largest of which was 50,000 computers working in…

First, for the non-technical: AMD is a company. Explaining the “64” opens a whole bucket of technical jargon, and it’s a source of confusion even (er, especially) for those who think they’re technically savvy (I don’t totally exclude myself from that group). Anyway, AMD makes a CPU (just like Intel makes CPUs), and the ones…

I have a beef with free internet mail accounts in general. I have one at mail.com and another at Yahoo.com. Both say they do all they can to make my experience wonderful and eliminate spam, but meanwhile, the only part of those services that works flawlessly are the ads. Enter gmail.Yesterday and today, I couldn’t…

Well, they didn’t really *lose* my site. What happened is this: I run a site called LinuxLaboratory. Recently, it went through a major overhaul. So major, that I didn’t bother even trying to ensure that old links would work. It’s been about 6 weeks now, and I’m noticing that I’m not getting very much traffic….

So I heard about this thing called Skype. It’s a program that you download, for free, and run on Windows, Linux, or Mac, and it lets you make phone calls over the internet, or talk to any other Skype user for free. My brother-in-law and I tested it out. He downloaded it to a windows…

I think the time has finally come. In the past, we’ve seen quite possibly hundreds of studies from think-tanks and research firms trying to quantify the cost of viruses, trojans, spam, etc to corporations in terms of lost productivity, downtime, extra FTEs, etc. The costs are astronomical. In the US, these pesky pestilences cost corporations…

As stocking stuffers, my fiance used magazines covering some of my hobbies. Some on woodworking, some on guitar, and some on computers. Since I had some time off, I decided to try to spend some time with my guitar, so I flipped through and found the music to an AC/DC song – “You Shook Me…

For non-geeks: a blackberry is a handheld email client. When people send me mail, I have a “recipe” that looks at the email for me before figuring out what to do with it. If it’s important, it is sent directly to my blackberry, which is clipped to my belt most waking hours. My old Blackberry…

I’ll note a disclaimer which is that I’m a RHCT. I’ve prepared for other certifications that I never sat for, from Sun, Checkpoint and others. So I have some idea how certification sorta works. I don’t so much have a problem with application-specific certifications like CheckPoint or SQL Server. I also don’t have a problem…