windowsnerd.com

Admin

Entries Comments


Custom Search




Category: OS

iphone vs droid – missing the point, you want the best ladder to your cloud

24 June, 2010 (21:17) | OS, security, wireless | No comments

iphone vs droid – missing the point, you want the best ladder to your cloud

Windows and OSSEC ipsec blocks

17 February, 2010 (19:33) | OS, security | No comments

Today I started toying with the idea of using OSSEC active response in Windows. My goal is to block a whole IP, you can do port or traffic type as you wish, if anyone wants that let me know.  The first piece of work to share: netsh ipsec static add policy description=”ossec block list” netsh [...]

Mac tablet prediction – wild crazy one including OS11

10 January, 2010 (20:45) | mac, prediction | 1 comment

Ok so this one is out there. Apple is on top of its game. Macland has to know that Chrome will destroy the teeny userbase OSx has within the next 2 years. Most people use the web. Thats it. Web apps. My mom, my cousin, most of my employees. They all use the web. At [...]

Set ossec to monitor mysql logs on red hat (not log ossec in mysql)

18 September, 2009 (14:19) | linux, security | No comments

How to configure ossec to monitor mysql logs… not putting your logs into mysql.

Windows Updates can learn a lot from Linux

25 August, 2009 (09:57) | OS, security | No comments

Windows patch management needs to be a little more like Linux

Time to get antivirus for your Mac

25 July, 2009 (14:17) | antivirus/spyware, mac | No comments

Yup, people ask me if they need it, I’m saying get it now. Time to provide the antivirus vendors with a little cash to develop your AV just before you need it more. Which is later this week to next year.

Basic linux commands

14 July, 2009 (08:04) | OS, linux | No comments

cat /etc/redhat-release - check the version of Red Hat running on your machine

Dell Vostro 1400 blue screens on windows update after clean install

9 May, 2009 (02:18) | Hardware Info, How to, OS | 1 comment

vostro 1400 blue screens windows update, AHCI

Mac vs win-PC article on PCworld nails some good points

28 April, 2009 (18:35) | Mindless Blather, mac, prediction | No comments

Priceless- http://www.pcworld.com/article/163836/eight_reasons_your_next_computer_should_be_a_pc.html There are many many other reasons the cycle won’t be broken. Macs are cool, just not going to dominate. Home users tend to buy what they have at work. Mac refuses to support old OS and software choices. Too many businesses get stuck in a rut where they run an old Windows OS [...]

Microsoft fails to deliver Windows 7 beta… surprised?

13 January, 2009 (18:22) | OS | No comments

I would like to offer M$ a bargain. Call me before you launch something and ask what I think you need to prepare… Offering Windows 7 beta isos at 2.2GB a piece? I’d say you better have a ton of akamai servers out there if you are still refusing to do the logical thing and [...]

« Older entries