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Quick, Easy, and Cheap VPN for Mac

willc — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:29:13 +0000

If you are not paranoid about using open Wifi service at coffee shops, hotels, and other public establishments, you should be. Time and time again it has been proven that such locales can be extremely dangerous for doing mundane things such as checking your email or posting to your Facebook account. If you are unlucky [...]

PHP-CGI Exploit is in the wild. Get protected ASAP.

willc — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:41:10 +0000

The vulnerability that sat undetected for 7 years was disclosed last week, but today it has been announced that exploits have been seen in the wild. They are working on releasing a new patch. This is pretty bad as it’s not exploiting one particular web application, rather, it is exploiting web servers running PHP in [...]

Nextgen Gallery Instruction Manual & Help

willc — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:13:38 +0000

If you’ve ever used the Nextgen Gallery plugin for WordPress, you may be aware of how daunting it can be to figure out. There are a lot of settings which take a large amount of trial and error to figure out. If you have given it any time, you know that once you learn the [...]

Hide Yourself From Social Networks (and others)

willc — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:21:41 +0000

Did you know that Facebook gets a report every time you visit a site with a Facebook “Like” button, even if you never click the button, are not a Facebook user, or are not logged in? That, and more you should be aware of here in this Consumer Reports article. Priv3 for Firefox will silently [...]

The Geekamongus Discussion Forum is Open

willc — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:10:29 +0000

We’ve set up a shiny new discussion board here on the Geekamongus site. Come join us for professional shop talk related to a wide array of subjecmatter. From infosec to web development discussions, we can accommodate it all. And uh, yes, this is the first post of 2012. Kinda lame, I know, but we are [...]

VMware – RHEL / CentOS 6.2 – Network Issues

dbcooper — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:19:38 +0000

Howdy folks, I just grabbed CentOS 6.2 (don’t know if it’s an issue in 6.0, 6.1), but an installation with the “Basic Server” within VMware Fusion 4.1.1 delivered no IP address etc. when leaving DHCP/NAT as the default. Finding: Seems, either something is goofed in the dhclient or NetworkManager (now default for RHEL 6.x). Fix: [...]

SNORT Subscriptions for the rest of us!

dbcooper — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:17:50 +0000

Just wanted to point out that SourceFire allows us common folks to purchase official SNORT VRT licenses on the cheap. At the tune of $29.00 a year, yeah, I’m game. http://www.snort.org/ Have fun!

Quick overview: H vs S vs E IPS monitors

dbcooper — Sun, 29 May 2011 10:37:16 +0000

If your looking for a new monitor and want the very best for graphic/design usage you may want to look into an IPS display. Obviously, Apples 27 inch is sweet, but unless your a dedicated Mac user, you may want to look else where. However, I think they are the only ones with a 27 [...]

WordPress and jQuery issues

willc — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:44:56 +0000

First, I don’t remember where I found this along the way, but this is a smart and efficient way to include jQuery in your WordPress themes. Just add this to your theme’s functions.php file: // ADDING JQUERY add_action( ‘init’, ‘jquery_register’ ); add_filter( ‘script_loader_src’, ‘jquery_unversion’ ); function jquery_register() { if ( !is_admin() ) { wp_deregister_script( ‘jquery’ [...]

Apple Mail “smtp.xxxx.com:xxxxx” offline

dbcooper — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:50:52 +0000

I have 2 gmail accounts configured under “Mail” and over the last few days 1 of my accounts when sending a new email shows the “smtp.gmail.com:xxxxx” as “Offline”, if I forced a send from it, I would have to type my password in again. Then it would send, but go back offline. Even when re-setting [...]