I know most of my blogging deals with stuff that goes on around the FDNF, but I thought I’d share some of my techy side with everyone.
Working as an Information Assurance Manager, I routinely come across personal thumb-drives that have been mistakenly left in workstations or lost. When these thumb-drives are turned in, we perform [...]
While looking through some recently submitted K/Ubuntu related stories on Digg, I noticed there were a lot of negative comments about the OS, someone even complaining about the “Ubuntu fanboys.” Out of curiosity I googled “Is Ubuntu overrated?” to see what the story behind all the negativity is. I didn’t get much of anything with [...]
One of the things I did during this long period of not blogging was build a new computer. It’s a simple machine right now, but good enough to enjoy DVDs on the 21″ monitor and quickly beat Half-Life 2 with its new GeForce video card. Once I was up and running with the desktop, I [...]
So on the heels of getting my new Japanese cell phone yesterday, all computer-based VoIP services have decided to collectively screw me over. I primarily use Yahoo! voice to make phone calls homes. It’s incredibly cheap and the call quality has always been great. Yesterday when I was trying to call my girlfriend I kept [...]
Being an IT I get asked quite a lot of “How do I?” questions. One of the most common questions is how someone can rip a DVD and save it as a video file on their computer, in this case an AVI file. It’s actually pretty easy to do, and I’ll be showing you how [...]
Apple released a firmware update for the video iPod recently. Their site said the update addressed some common problems and fixed a bunch of bugs. I wasn’t experiencing any problems that prevented me from rocking out, but I didn’t figure it would hurt much. I figured wrong. One of the issues the update did [...]
Before anyone assumes I’m being sexist here, I’m not. While most techy guys would prefer to have techy girls being gaming graphic designers who just wear cool Linux t-shirts, I don’t. I tend to like working with women in the IT field more than most men, because there’s usually less of a pissing contest. A [...]
At least in Japan, Sailors who use MySpace, Yahoo! Personals, BlackPlanet, etc., are no longer able to get to the sites on government computers. Instead they’re greeted with a restricted message, and a link to the instruction of appropriate uses for DoN computer systems.
The Navy blows my mind with their policies sometimes. Not to [...]
As much as I enjoyed being one of the trendy Internet hipsters that used Flickr, the crappy restrictions have totally turned me off. If not being able to upload as many photos and albums as I wanted wasn’t enough, the page full of ads when I logged in, was. I know that I could have [...]
I guess the pressure was too much for Redmond. They’ve released an official patch to the WMF exploit, well ahead of their original proposed date.
Update your ish now…
Microsoft isn’t expected to have an official patch for this vulnerability until Janurary 9th. In the meantime, hackers have created variants of the WMF exploit, including a new IM worm, that are not detected or stopped by traditional means. This means your antivirus, firewall, IDS, snort rules, etc., are all basically useless. In a first, [...]
Microsoft has done it again. A new 0-day (previously undiscovered) exploit is circulating around the Internets. It affects all Windows XP systems, even when they’re fully patched or if you’re using Firefox. It’s caused by a malformed .WMF file that exploits a bug found in the shimgvw.dll file that handles image processing for the Picture [...]
WordPress, the awesome blogging platform that I use, has opened it’s invite-only commercial blogging site for anyone to join. Think of it as the next Blogger, hopefully without the Splogs. Sign up!
The best feature of the Firefox web browser is, by far, it’s many extensions. These add-ons give you more power and flexibility than just standard browsing, and can really make surfing much more interesting. Since there are so many extensions available, it can be a bit overwelming, so here are the few that I use [...]
¶
Posted 09 October 2005
Jim §
‡
It’s amazing how many tricks industrious hackers find the get their hands on porn. This method might not be so new, but it’s the first time I’ve heard of it. I came across a program called MegaSpoof that allows you to view members-only areas of certain porn pay-sites. How does it work?
When [...]
¶
Posted 17 September 2005
Jim §
‡
I know it’s Saturday, but I meant to post this yesterday. I wouldn’t mind doing this weekly, so maybe it’ll pan out. I am a man of few needs. One of those needs, is free software. Companies charge ridiculous amounts of money for their programs, and a lot of people, even ballers like myself, can’t [...]
¶
Posted 10 September 2005
Jim §
‡
