Back in August of 2007, NeoSmart Technologies released iReboot 1.0 - a tiny application that sits quietly and unobtrusively in the taskbar and is used to select which OS you’d like to reboot into.
iReboot isn’t by any means a major application, but it’s gathered a pretty strong following over the months, mostly by people [...]
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Want UAC-Free iReboot? You got it: iReboot 1.1 released!
Published by April 27th, 2008 in Microsoft, Programming, Security, Software, Windows 70 CommentsPreying on the Handicapped and Giving Geeks a Bad Name
Published by March 29th, 2008 in Blogosphere, Hacking, Security 1 CommentWhen you’ve practically lived online day-in, day-out for the past decade or so you tend to develop a thick skin to the malevolent things that tend to happen every once in a while. But there are some things that you’d never expect, not once in a million years; they strike a nerve and they really [...]
Proper Shell Scripting on Windows Servers with Perl
Published by November 13th, 2007 in Guides, Hacking, Linux, Macintosh, Operating Systems, Programming, Software 5 CommentsFact: Shell scripting is a must for any serious IT admin managing a server. From automating backups to checking logs and keeping server performance and load in check, scripting is a must.
Fact: Shell scripting on Windows sucks.
Fact: Shell scripting on Linux and other *nix operating systems is powerful, well-documented, and quite straight-forward.
Most people take [...]
Windows XP SP3 Beta (Build 3205) Released - Analysis Included
Published by October 7th, 2007 in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Reviews, Security, Software, Windows 82 CommentsFollowing our coverage of the Windows XP SP3 beta leak almost a month ago in August, here’s some more info on the official beta, which just had its first authorized distributable released earlier today. Say hello to Windows XP SP3, build 3205!
While Microsoft’s [[MSFT]] newly-released build and the one leaked a month ago (Build 3180) may share [...]
Family Misunderstands Open Source, Panics, & Sues the Wrong Person…
Published by September 22nd, 2007 in Blogosphere, Corporate Talk, Privacy 1 CommentOpen source is supposed to be a way of simplifying licensing issues and sharing your software/music/video/other content with the masses — freely and magnanimously. Problem is, what happens when something open source is found to be a (possible) violation of some else’s rights? What happens to its derivatives? Do they just pack up shop and [...]
How-To: Changing the Windows Vista Startup Sound
Published by August 28th, 2007 in Guides, Hacking, Software, Windows 16 CommentsOf the many controversies surrounding Windows Vista, probably the most infamous (and pathetic) issues brought to the table is the Windows Vista Startup sound - and how to get rid of it. If you were anywhere but under a rock during the beta, it’s impossible to have missed the posts going back and forth by haters and [...]
Goodbye NOD32; Hello Kaspersky!
Published by July 12th, 2007 in Corporate Talk, Security, Software 13 CommentsEset’s NOD32 has long been our favorite anti-virus program at NeoSmart Technologies. It’s light, fast, powerful, and pretty damn good at doing what’s its designed to do: keeping our systems clean and virus-free.
In recent years (mainly from last year though), NOD32 has fallen a bit behind in the detection rankings, but for the most part [...]
DDOS Attacks & Server Updates
Published by June 5th, 2007 in Hacking, NeoSmart Technologies, Security, Software 1 CommentToday, at or around 15:30 GMT, NeoSmart Technologies was victim of a distributed denial of service attack that lasted over two and a half hours. Unfortunately, as a result of the DDOS attack, our server had to be hard-restarted and we encountered some data corruption. All files were recovered with the exception of our MySQL [...]
Connecting to WPA2-Secured Wi-Fi with Windows XP x64
Published by May 19th, 2007 in Microsoft, Security, Windows 0 CommentsA while back, we reported on how if you’re a Windows XP x64 user, Microsoft didn’t think you needed the additional Wi-Fi security offered by the WPA2 encryption protocol - which just happens to be one of the only two non-trivial Wi-Fi protection scheme available at the same time. Well, chin-up, because if you’re a [...]
We Love You, Rinbot!
Published by March 1st, 2007 in Corporate Talk, Hacking, Security, Software 36 CommentsIt’s not often that we openly sympathize with the virii writers, but this time, it’s too good to be true. Rinbot Generation 7 is targeting Symantec [[SYMC]] and Symantec users - and that’s a good thing.
Anyone using Symantec’s anti-virus software from 2006 and hasn’t updated it is vulnerable to a very powerful complete remote control [...]
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