Sony has come out with a solid state version of their really great Vaio G1 laptop. This means really fast boot times and operation without the fragility of standard hard drives. Depending on the configuration, this little gem will weight between 2-3 lbs. It has a 12 inch screen, but it makes up for it [...]
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Need A New Background?
April 18th, 2007 
admin Are you tired of your old background? Would you like some new icons to spruce up your desktop? Does this sound like a commercial for some new medical drug? Even if you did only answer “Yes” to the last question, I have a web site that is easily worth checking out. Home to one of, [...]
W32/Delbot-AI Nirbot DNS Exploit
April 18th, 2007 admin News is circulating about a new zero day exploit on Windows DNS servers that allows local system rights in the “security context of the Domain Name System Server Service.” Microsoft is downplaying the attacks, saying that they are not widespread. I went out in search of the said exploitation code and found it easily on [...]
Sandboxie Sandboxes Malware
April 17th, 2007 admin Here’s an interesting concept. If you look at the picture here, it will help you to understand what in the heck I’m talking about. You can run any program in the Sandboxie sandbox. This allows an intermediate collection pool, a kind of staging ground, to deny access to hard drive writes. Now, on first appearance, [...]
GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner Review
April 14th, 2007 admin On this 2nd Saturday edition of PaulTech, I am pleased to bring you GFI’s LANGuard “Network Security Scanner”. I’ve been authorized by both Paul and GFI to bring you guys a review of the LANGuard “Network Security Scanner” security suite. I would urge everyone to take note, as computer security is always something to pay [...]
Windows XP Going the Way of the OEM…
April 13th, 2007 admin BBC News has recently reported about something we were all worried about since Vista came out: the availability of Windows XP. Apparently, news reports coming out of Redmond, WA, say that Microsoft has made the decision to not sell the operating system or allow computer manufacturers to bundle new desktops and laptops with Windows XP [...]
Linutop: Box O’ Wonders
April 13th, 2007 admin Thanks, Ray… Linux users, rejoice! Here on display today is a marvelous little device, named the Linutop. As you can probably guess, it is somehow connected to Linux and, if you’re really good, you’ve figured out it can sit on your desktop. The Linutop system is a small device (only 9.3 x 2.7 x 15 [...]
The Tunguska Event
April 13th, 2007 admin I remember reading about this event when I was in my teens. It happened on June 30, 1908, at 7:15 am near the Tunguska River, Russia. This is now Krasnoyarsk Krai. Eyewitnesses remember seeing a large streak in the sky. They heard rumbles, felt overwhelming heat, were knocked off their feet, and were disoriented. An [...]
The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory
April 12th, 2007 admin Ahhh, the joys of owning a computer! If you have received this message, it is due to a recent patch that microsoft pushed out in response to a very bad Microsoft Windows Animated Cursor Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. You may get a message like this:
Google Maps Humor
It’s been a while since I’ve been back to the mother land. Anyway, the folks over at Empty Nest shot me this email about getting directions from New York to England via Google Maps. Man, I guess I better head to the YMCA before I leave!