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Fix 7′s Taskbar Right Clicking
January 15th, 2012Something that has bugged me for a long time in Windows 7 is how the taskbar right-click functionality was changed. Since Windows 95, when you right clicked on an item in the taskbar, you were presented with a menu to Restore, Minimize, Maximize, Close, and with some programs, some nifty custom options (like PuTTY’s custom [...]
A new rootkit?
July 27th, 2010For the third time in the last few weeks I have had to clean up yet another malware infection. However, these have all displayed similar symptoms, and I am thinking there might be another outbreak of malware coming. I have noticed that malware seems to come in waves. I will spend a whole bunch of [...]
HP’s New Touch-pads Suck
June 15th, 2010I was setting up some brand new HP Probook’s today (typically VERY nice machines in my experience) when I was suddenly rendered crippled by a IMPOSSIBLE to use touch-pad. What a DREADFUL piece of shit this new design is. Basically, the touch-pad and buttons are all one surface. Observe: The problem comes from the fact [...]
It’s 2010, do you know where your balls are?
March 12th, 2010Apparently HP does. In their mice. Come on people. It’s 2010. Optical mice can be had from Newegg for $4. I can’t believe ball-mice are still being packaged with new machines. And this wasn’t even a cheap piece of crap Acer, this came with a brand new HP Proliant server! Sheesh. Spare no expense with [...]
Java: A Malware Writer’s Dream Come True
March 5th, 2010Not too long ago I wrote about how to Make Firefox More Secure by Disabling Java in it. Since I wrote that article in November, nearly every malware cleanup I have done since then has used Java as it’s injection vector, and that has been quite a lot. This has become a HUGE wide spread [...]
Firefox 3.6 Breaks Themes and Personas Coexistence
January 22nd, 2010I was excited to see that Firefox 3.6 was released today, so I promptly downloaded and installed it on my Asus Netbook (which I have been loving by the way). Upon restarting Firefox after the upgrade I noticed my Persona was missing. Now would be a good time to explain that I run a theme [...]
TrueCrypt Full System Encryption on a Netbook
January 2nd, 2010For the uninitiated, TrueCrypt is a Free, Open Source, on-the-fly disk encryption software. You can do many things with it, from Encrypting flash drive, to creating Encrypted file containers, to Full System Encryption. I had done all except the latter and I have been wanting to try it out. For various reasons though I had [...]
Windows Server Backup Sucks
December 5th, 2009This article is referring specifically to Windows Server Backup 1.0 that comes with Windows Server 2008 R2. I recently had the pleasure of another horrid Server 2008 product. This time around it’s the built in backup utility causing my head aches. What’s the problem with it? It’s slow. I don’t mean takes a few extra [...]
