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Windows 7 RC1 Leaked to Torrents

Norm — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:44:16 +0000

Those of us who have MSDN and TechNet subscriptions used to enjoy downloading the latest and greatest from Microsoft before it ever reached the consumer. Those days are seemingly long gone now. At the time of writing this article the next release of Windows 7, Release Candidate 1, is still not available for download from Microsoft. [...]

Get Ready - Windows 7 Release Candidate Due May 5

Norm — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:02:17 +0000

Eager Windows 7 fans will get their taste of the first and only public release candidate of the highly anticipated operating system starting on May 5. The download is expected to be available through June 2009, with an activation lasting until June 2010. Also expected on the same day is a release candidate for Windows 7 [...]

FreeNAS 0.69.1 (Ominius) Has Arrived

Norm — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:21:07 +0000

This one isn’t showing up on the FreeNAS main site yet (FreeNAS.org), but it is available for download at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=151951&package_id=168081&release_id=676839 Major changes: Upgrade Samba to 3.0.34. Upgrade ProFTPD to 1.3.2. Upgrade mDNSResponder to 1.08.6. Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.22. Upgrade cdialog to 1.1.20080819. Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.4. Upgrade nut to 2.4.1. Thanks to Joerg Pulz for the core dump patch. This version uses TCP wrappers instead [...]

Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 Coming April 28

Norm — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:32:03 +0000

Users of Microsoft Office 2007 can rejoice – Service Pack 2 will be here in just over a week! That’s right everyone, we’re finally getting a new set of fixes and functionality. It’s about time too! Expect to see some great new features in your favorite products such as the ability to export reports to Excel [...]

Get Critical Hardware Information with CPU-Z and GPU-Z

Norm — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:11:22 +0000

If you’ve ever upgraded your own PC, then you probably needed to know some crucial information about your existing hardware. Things like motherboard model, memory type, processor socket type, video card memory and many more come to mind easily. Well, you’ll be happy to know that there are two very simple applications that can bring you [...]

D-Link DNS-323 and the NAS Monitoring Gadget

Norm — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:26:15 +0000

About two weeks ago my FreeNAS-based NAS died. To be more specific, it started throwing errors about incompatible files that I was trying to play on my media center. When investigated, I discovered that the emails I had been receiving for months about S.M.A.R.T. errors on one of the drives was actually legitimate. The drive [...]

Download EASEUS Partition Master for Free Until Midnight

Norm — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:24:44 +0000

A while back I wrote an article for MakeTechEasier about a free partition management application called Easeus Partition Manager. It would seem that the post got the attention of Partition-Tool, the development team behind this and other great tools. They collaborated with MakeTechEasier to bring you Easeus Partition Master, the full-featured commercial version of Partition Manager. [...]

Respect to the Cubicle Slave

Norm — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:23:07 +0000

A dark homage to cubicle workers everywhere: Cubicle Slave Manifesto I am an office worker. I live a cookie cutter life where I punch in and punch out at the same time every day. Eight of my sixteen waking hours in a day are spent in my cubicle? What’s a cubicle you ask? Similar to a jail [...]

Silverlight on Linux, Chrome Next

Norm — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:43:20 +0000

Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, a huge competitor for Adobe’s Flash, is making the rounds beyond the Microsoft realm. The first milestone is the official release of Moonlight 1.0 – an open-source implementation of Silverlight 1.0 that allows Silverlight-based applications and websites to run in the Linux environment using Firefox 2 or 3. The good news is that [...]

Microsoft Offers Up $250K For Conficker Creator

Norm — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:01:13 +0000

On Thursday Microsoft announced plans to offer a $250,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in the creation of the Conficker worm. The Conficker worm has yet to reveal its true purpose, however infected machines become part of an increasingly growing botnet. Once exploited, the controlling parties behind the [...]

Update on the Kaspersky Data Theft Fiasco

Norm — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:19:00 +0000

Kaspersky has put out a blog post entitled “What really happened to usa.kaspersky.com/support” where they detail the events of the attack on their customer database last weekend. They did the right thing by not downplaying the situation. The took ownership and manned up: We confirm that the vulnerability existed in the new version of usa.kaspersky.com/support. We analyzed [...]

UNIX Time Will Hit 1234567890 on Friday the 13th

Norm — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:24:00 +0000

As if Friday the 13th isn’t spooky enough all by itself, this coming Friday is a special kind of spooky for real geeks everywhere. February 13, 2009 at 11:30:30 PM (UTC) marks the moment when UNIX time will reach 1234567890. For those of you in the Eastern Standard Time zone (EST), you can mark this momentous [...]

Protect us from the Protectors: Kaspersky Customers Exposed

Norm — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:19:45 +0000

On Saturday, Feb 7, an unidentified hacker announced that he was able to gain access to customer databases associated with the usa.kaspersky.com website. These databases contained information about user accounts, activation codes, and possibly private personal data about Kaspersky customers. In a later update, the same hacker purportedly indicated that no data would be exposed by [...]

Hurry! Windows 7 Beta Downloads End Thursday!

Norm — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:36:50 +0000

If you haven’t already started your download, you’re probably too late. As of 12am Pacific Time on February 10, no new downloads will be available for Windows 7 Beta. If you already have a download in progress, you have until February 12 at 9am Pacific Time to complete said download. If you don’t complete your download [...]

OpenDNS Helping to Shut Down Conficker

Norm — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:03:50 +0000

The latest and greatest threat to Internet-connected computers, the Conficker word, may be in for a rough ride. It is estimated that nearly 10 million PCs are already infected by the worm and the numbers growing. The most amusing part is the fact that a sizable number of administrators are unaware that their networks have been [...]