Found via last night’s Tech Support Alert newsletter, F-Secure has made available a beta version of Backlight, a rootkit scanner/revealer for free, until July 1, 2005. This is a great chance to scan all of your home PC’s for free over the next couple of weeks. I’d have to recommend taking advantage of that!
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William left a comment to the effect that the version of Red Hat I was trying to install uses LILO and that might be the thing that’s interfering with the NT-based install. (That’s why it worked flawlessly with 98 and not on this new server.) Getting a later version that uses a different boot loader…
It never fails! Register at a job site, or try to get your resume out as much as possible and then just watch the number of “Work from Home” offers and “Great financial opportunity” spams come rolling in, including some that try to hide as legit responses to your resume. But they’re pretty easy to…
Just yesterday some of us were gathered in the area of the helpdesk, discussing the NTP/RIM lawsuit and what the firm might have to do if the Blackberry service does, in fact, get shut down. The agreement was that we’d end up blowing a big chunk of IS budget rolling out Windows Mobile devices. One…
I noticed a post today by Rob Merrill (mostly because he linked to me in the post) on the Good Recruits blog titled Yes they are looking. I thought what he had to say tied in nicely with some of my own thoughts recently about the job I left behind. If you are currently the…
I had planned on posting something yesterday. I had planned on doing a lot of things yesterday that I never quite got done. Not that there was any sort of sudden emergency or technical problems that required my attention, I was working strictly from my tasklist for the day pretty much all day. It just…
It’s System Admin Appreciation Day and in honor of the day, I’m staying home. No, not really, I’m staying home to administer to my own digestive system, which seems to have some corrupt data that needs to be purged, if ya’ know what I mean. *L* It’s also Chris Pirillo’s 29th birthday. Happy birthday you…