I talked about running a firewall on Friday. Today, I find this article on ZDnet: Why you must install a firewall NOW Yes, once again, you heard it here first! Life of a one-man IT Department, beating major media sources on a regular basis, and by that, of course, I mean it happened at least…
Steve Gibson has put together a quick little app called DCOMbobulator that will test how effective the latest MS patches are protecting you from the lateset DCOM vulnerabilities, and it will also go ahead and disable DCOM on your machine. As he says on the site though, if you run a NAT router or just…
Microsoft Admits New Windows Problem OK here’s the deal. The vulnerability is simliar to the one used by Blaster. Once again, the patch is out before anything is out that would take advantage of this. Do the math. Get the patch now. Beat the post-Blaster 2 rush! Or make sure your firewall is blocking what…
Blogger bucks premium-services trend | CNET News.com Wow, I’ll be glad when Angela can get an RSS feed working and all the Pro features for free will certainly be a nice little present, eh? Thanks Blogger and Google! Link via Notes from the Cave
My Axim’s backup battery seems to be bad. I’ve left the Axim charging since I got into the office this morning and the battery stayed at 30%. I then took out the backup battery, wiped it down, as per the FAQ on Dell’s support site, and stuck it back in. Then it said 50% right…
I just spent somewhere in the vicinity of 20 minutes trying to help one of our users understand something. You see, while this particular individual is a relative genius when it comes to working in his field, he has very little knowledge of technology and the simplest PC tasks are often very difficult for him…