Nice to see some predictions come true. From my own blog here in 2009- With today’s news of Snow Leopard including some sort of anti-spyware/malware (i doubt antivirus.) I decided I should compile a list of my favorite mac holes for the macholes that seem to say there aren’t any. The culture will shift once [...]
Apple did something brilliant. They might not be good at security, in fact they pretty much always suck at it. This forced them to create something new and just brilliant. If a user doesn’t use Java for X time, it SHUTS OFF! How incredibly obvious but new is that? How cool would it be if [...]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber modify the value, switch to decimal unless you want to be fancy and figure it out in hex. restart the computer or if you are lazy like me, restart the remote desktop service then reconnnect.
I use Dell Kbox for patch management, which I can’t afford for home at ~$3k a year. For home Secunia PSI is great. It scans the machine once a week and installs all the patches it can. Adobe products, java, 7zip etc seem to work really well. When you first install it there will be [...]
A few people over the last few years have asked me why spiceworks doesnt show ads when I show them my interface. The hosts file from MVPS.org will block spiceworks ads. I don’t recommend doing this in order to block their ads. It is how they make money to build the product. If you use [...]
http://www.spiceworks.com/spiceworld/2011/ check it out, they have a lot of great stuff added.
Watching the TLC show Extreme Couponing immediately leaves a computer nerd with a skeptical feeling. Coupons today are driven by an incredible data mining corporate machine, it is hard to understand the $/hour cost of couponing and selling your soul vs getting a job. A little googling shows the illegal status of bar code fraud [...]
I’m tired of absolute statements like being accused of hating iEverything. I like an ipad for surfing the web on the couch, ipad for listening to music and supporting clueless users on a mac. They can’t figure out how the hell to fire up vi, how are they going to break it? That is great [...]
iphone vs droid – missing the point, you want the best ladder to your cloud
I’m not always the biggest fan of some of the things Apple does, but I think the Ipad is pretty darn cool. When CRN posted this story, I was a little offended at their assertion that the ipad is the target of the back door. It is not. Windows is the target. I am no [...]