by wwarren | Aug 12, 2009 | Microsoft, Office, Open Source
Judge: Microsoft can’t sell Word anymore. I highly doubt this one will hold up on appeal but I’ll keep an eye on it to see what happens.
by wwarren | Aug 12, 2009 | Microsoft, Vista, Windows
Disable User Account Control (UAC) the Easy Way on Windows Vista :: the How-To Geek. That’s right. Kill UAC. things like slow network performance, the annoying popups and other arcane bugs go away. Now if you do not run your computer properly then this leads...
by wwarren | Aug 11, 2009 | Open Source
oh boy. Get your mouse clickers ready and update Windows as this is a nasty bunch of updates. More than half of the patches are of the type that allow remote system takeover and most of the takeover udpates are in…..Drun Roll...
by wwarren | Aug 2, 2009 | Hardware, Open Source
Windows 7, new laptop designs to converge | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News. This should be interesting. In October Windows 7 launches and many hardware vendors are looking to unveil new hardware.
by wwarren | Aug 2, 2009 | Security
Black Hat ® Technical Security Conference: USA 2009 // Archives. This is a huge annual security conference by folks who know a ton more about security than i do..:)
by wwarren | Aug 2, 2009 | Apple, Security
DailyTech – Another Major Mac Computer Security Flaw Discovered. And of course it’s another remote takeover vulnerability. I just posted about how Apple’s arrogance is biting them in the rear.
by wwarren | Aug 2, 2009 | Apple, Open Source, Security
Digital Society » Blog Archive » Apple keyboards hacked and possessed. BSD IS more secure than windows by default but no operating system is immune to stupid implementation. Exposing root or writing applications to run as root but not tell the operator are examples...
by wwarren | Aug 2, 2009 | Linux, Open Source, Security
It is going to be either Astaro or Untangle. Depending on what the clients needs are. Ipfire feels kludgey and ipcop isn’t really designed for modern hardware and is a bit too basic for my needs. Comixwall is a typical Debian distro..if you want to live in...
by wwarren | Aug 2, 2009 | Linux, Open Source
According to the Centos homepage: The CentOS Development team had a routine meeting today with Lance Davis in attendance. During the meeting a majority of issues were resolved immediately and a working agreement was reached with deadlines for remaining unresolved...
by wwarren | Jul 31, 2009 | Linux, Microsoft, Office, Open Source, Security, Windows
Pwnie Award Winners. I like this. It shows that nothing is sacred when it comes to security..:)
