Archive for March, 2006

Mar30

Private dick software is coming to a cell phone near you

If you are a cheating snake, you better watch your back…. AND what you communicate through your cell phone. This News.com story explains: “Spy program snoops on cell phones.” I wrote about this in today’s IT News Digest (if you don’t get this newsletter, you should… click here to…

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Mar21

Wacky Linux Part 15: Update-proof defaults

In our last episode, I was complaining about A) an open-only-for-a-few-hours security hole in Ubuntu and B) the fact that the Breezy auto-updater kept reinstituting my hated VGA driver problem after every few updates–like, say, when I download an emergency patch to close a security hole. …

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Mar7

Wacky Linux Part 13: Prepping for wireless

In our last episode, I confessed to some trepidation as to installing wireless hardware onto my Compaq Armada M300 laptop running Ubuntu Linux 5.10. Nobody seemed especially worried on my behalf (at least, nobody commented much on the subject), so I proceeded with Basic Geek Research…

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