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By admin, January 13, 2010 10:00

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Something I heard about last week but haven’t had time to put up here is the “God Mode” feature.  If you want to have a common area to access all your settings features, rather than navigate in the normal Control Panel method you may find this mode to be a bit of a time saver.

To enable simply Create a New Folder and name it this:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

That will change the folder icon to a Control Panel icon and will then give you direct access to all the features in a simple list format.  If you prefer having the short explainations they will be missing.

So far no comments from Microsoft about this.  Enjoy.

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By admin, October 27, 2009 08:28

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With a great deal of disappointment I have to make this post.  I have been a avid user of this tool in the past (I’m still running a pretty old version of this on a XP box) since it expedited deleting of files that were locked by an application.  It would clearly identify whom locked the file and give me the option to delete it.  However it appears that it is in fact bundled with ADWARE.  This is defined by some AV products as a Trojan, including Microsoft Essentials as TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.gen

It should be noted that CNet’s Download.com ‘verifys’ its spyware free, yet obviously either this was a clear ‘miss’ on their part, or they do not classify adware as spyware. This confirms my thinking that anything on Download.com should be considered ‘risky’ software since they either mislead or don’t bother to check the software that’s uploaded or availble from download.com.  My thinking is they simply are misleading by ‘verify’ing it contains no spyware.  Others have disclosed this over the past year and a bit that this version has been around for download so I think ample time was provided for Cnet to correct this.

Continue reading 'Unlocker 1.8.7 Infected with Trojan Adware'»

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By admin, October 25, 2009 13:11

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Released to the public on October 22 Canonical’s latest and greatest Ubuntu yet “Karmic Koala 9.10“.  For many folks using a Linux distribution probably ranks up there with a visit to the dentist, but I have to say that as the kernel keeps improving in leaps and bounds the software wrapped around it can just work on the majority of hardware without issue.

Sure many folks may try it out and find out that it ‘does not work’ with their specific hardware, but compared with last years 8.10 the numbers are down with the sad exception of two particular vendors; ATI and Intel.  ATI recently dropped support for much of their older hardware, but then released a new series of drivers that do support.  Thankfully using the older drivers or using the open source communities versions can at least get them working, if you have problems with the more supported drivers.  Intel on the other hand has basically thrust it’s middle finger up at the linux community with a blatant refusal to provide open source to allow many distributions to be able to integrate support, so for many it means booting to a broken system, and downloading proprietary drivers and praying it works.  Obviously this isn’t the end of the world, but from my perspective a seriously ‘good’ reason to avoid using Intel hardware,  especially if you want to use wine to run Windows games or applications, you’d do so much better with non-Intel chipsets.  nVidia has the best support out of the box for most people not only linux users, but also windows users that it’s becoming a staple requirement.  Don’t get me wrong, Intel does provide drivers, but do not expect them to work directly from installation.  In some cases the generic drivers get installed and it works, in other cases you’re faced with non-working hardware and off to the various support forums seeking a solution.  Thankfully they are available.

In my situation I decided to get a new laptop and specifically bought a Compaq CQ60 which features NO Intel or ATI hardware, simply so I could avoid any hassles.  I’m pretty good at fixing these issues, but if I am spending money and the amount is equal, why buy something with hardware that will not work?    So without further adieu, I release my notes on installing Ubuntu 9.10 x64 on this laptop.

Continue reading 'Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” Release Candidate – Installation Notes'»

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By admin, October 24, 2009 16:06

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For those that have been following me since January of this year you may be aware that I took advantage of downloading the open beta version and testing it on a few machines.

I had really good luck with various systems and even installing it in VMware.  My only real hangup was my main gaming rig which runs Windows XP SP3, simply refused to detect the DVD drive.  Which was very strange since it was booting and running the setup from the very same drive.  All the VMware machine I build used the same drive also although I’m aware VMware does use it’s own drivers but that was it.  Every other box, method I tried worked without major problem

Today Saturday Oct 24, 2009 I took the liberty of installing both Windows 7 Ultimate x64 AND Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 Karmic Koala Release Candidate x64 on the exact same laptop a Compaq presario CQ60 laptop which came with Vista Home Basic which I really did not want.  If you want to find out about my Installation for Ubuntu check out the next story.  I’m publishing this one first so it should be the one right after or the newer one.

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By admin, August 31, 2009 13:05

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Thanks for browsing!  I am a Canadian born in Calgary.  Having lived here most of my life it’s more than just a home.  I am a certified computer programmer, low-voltage technician, security expert with decades of experience.  I currently am looking for the right company to call my employer, and work the rest of my time as a freelance computer consultant and general ‘fix it’ guy.  I’m well versed in numerous  computer programming languages incluing BASIC, COBOL, JCP, C, C++, PHP, Python, Perl, and some tiny java and ruby in my blood too.

I speak many OS’s not limited to the full gambit of Microsoft Windows (anything since ’98 including a MCSE in NT, but right up to date with Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7 Ultimate), many of the GNU/Linux Distro’s although Debian is my favorite, and am also familiar with FreeBSD.

Hardware is no challenge for this geek pornstar and enjoy taking older hardware and making new systems as well as fiddling around with network IDS/IPS monitoring and solutions. Building out small networks or expanding existing ones I’ve worked on , WiFi solutions but I spend most of my time here learning about network security monitoring the most.

If you’re in the Calgary area and need someone, send me an email telling me you read it here.  I’m always happy to have a new client, whether it’s only for a couple hours work, or more permanent arrangements.