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Microsoft – fail!
I’m not talking about the fact that they restarted my computer overnight – again! – because of a “critical” update (as far as I can tell the “critical” update was Windows Media Player 11 – WTF?) or about the fact that some of their utilities give you useless error messages (like “X has occured –…
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Be honest about your reasons!
Update: Kurt said it much better in the comments. You should read it instead of my ramblings :-). I also remembered the French version of this saying: Qui s’excuse, s’accuse. Unfortunately meta-justifications and white lies seem to be a deeply embedded part of humans (so much so that we invent names like “politeness” for them…
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Anonymous browsing is hard
From the “big fricking surprise department” comes the news that “private browsing is hard to implement“. Well, duh! Also, quite obvious: the biggest problem were “Flash cookies” – again, duh!, since they are stored outside of the browser, so there is not very much the browser can do about them. There are many ways users…
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Ranting about Metasploit…
I want to preface this with the fact that I have an big respect for HDM and his colleagues, both because of technical achievements and for creating this framework in the open, with an enthusiastic community around it. However… 🙂 Some time ago I played around a little with Metasploit for the latest Ethical Hacker…
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pointers-uk – fail
Via the network security blog I found the article How to Rebuild your Computer and Reinstall Windows Without Headache, and the timing couldn’t have been better, since in the near future I will need to do so (although an XP machine, not Vista). The advices are given are good. Three tools which I like that…
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The importance of understanding – take 2
As you probably know by now, one of my pet peeve is people who pretend to know more than they actually do, and (because they get access to the right channels) spread misinformation. The latest example comes via the Infosec Ramblings blog: a series of two articles talking about “UAC Virtualization”. <rant>The term is “File…
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Distinct product lines, how I love the
Citing from Wikipedia: The following modern Intel processors include support for VT-x: Pentium 4 662 and 672 Pentium Extreme Edition 955 and 965 (not Pentium 4 Extreme Edition with HT) Pentium D 920-960 except 945, 925, 915 Core Solo U1000 series (not T1000 series) Core Duo T2300, T2400, T2500, T2600, T2700 only, plus L2000 and…
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F*** you Microsoft!
For deciding that your precious Windows Update is so important you have to restart my computer in the middle of the day, costing me two hours of work!
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Moving to an always connected world
I was browsing through some of the PDC reporting, when this announced feature of Windows 7 caught my eye; DirectAccess. It’s supposed to be a VPN which you don’t have to set up, it just magically works. Really? I didn’t know that VPN’s were so hard to set up. My personal experience is with managing…
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Thinformation
Most of us in the tech world know this feeling: you see an article about something you are specialized in and you discover a lot of things which is wrong with it. In the better case these are just details which are wrong. In the worse case the entire conclusion might be wrong. The further…