As a follow up to yesterday’s post, here’s a handful of things I’m going to miss about working in small business IT: Autonomy: I’ve pretty much been able to do whatever I want, however I want, within reason obviously. I think Firefox is a better browser, I install it on my PC. I think the…
While still trying to keep a bit of mystery about where I currently work, and where I’m going to be working, there are a few things that I find very interesting about my upcoming job-switch that I want to share and discuss. Mostly, I’m interested in how much of my experience can be extrapolated out…
Friday’s edition of Spyware Weekly has a boat-load of information on that ID Theft ring and the keylogger they were using. Definitely a must read for anyone concerned about spyware infections. Tags: spyware keylogger IDTheft
I think this might be among the slowest weeks I’ve ever had on this blog. I’ve been on vacation in the past and posted more than I have this week! There’s actually been a very good reason for it. I’m having to re-think the entire purpose of this blog, and how many different things I…
There are a number of arms races going on, hackers, spammers, etc. This one’s about popups. Some folks figured out how to use Flash to get around Firefox’s pop-up blocker, and thanks to a post on Steve Holden’s blog, I see that someone had figured out a config change to combat that. Sheesh next thing…
Today’s column by Fred Langa is the second recent reference I’ve seen to BartPE: Bart’s PE Builder helps you build a “BartPE” (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a complete Win32 environment…