Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
It really couldn't be any easier than this:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
You're done. Now you can use ssh to remotely connect to your Ubuntu box.
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
A recent vulnerability has been discovered in a popular web-content delivery program, Adobe Flash, which could potentially target World of Warcraft players and their accounts while they browse websites. The newest available version of Adobe Flash, version 9.0.124.0, does not contain this vulnerability and we recommend that everyone upgrade ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 was released today. I figured I'd give it a shot since I'm very disappointed with Vista's performance and SP1 is supposed to fix some sluggishness issues. This is the screen that appeared when I ran the SP1 setup:
Combined with the file size of ...
Posted in Annoying, Depressing, IT, Reviews, Ridiculous, Scary, Security, Software, Technology | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Honestly, I didn't even think about encryption. It's so obsolete now.
~Mark R.
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
That's a big encrypted bandwidth mess.
~Derek
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
For whatever reason, mapping network drives in Vista is basically impossible. Sure, you can map the drive once, but as soon as you restart your computer the "Windows could not reconnect all network drives." message pops up. Great...
I tried to be sneaky and specify the username in the ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Old Hard Drive + Remove All Permissions + Try to Access Drive = Permission Denied
Hmm...that's a problem.
My uncle had an old hard drive in his computer with NTFS permissions that had been used as his primary hard drive with Windows XP on it at some point. Now it's a ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
So you've got Windows XP Home and you need to update folder permissions. Good luck. Windows XP Home has "Simple File Sharing" enabled by default and there is no place for you to change it. The workaround is as follows:
Download the Security Configuration Manager Tool from Microsoft's ...
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