Archive For January 2009
Fake Confirmation Email from Tara Bartholomaios (Mrs.)
on January 25, 2009 by Wolf in Internet Scams, Comments (5)
This was very interesting. You probably go to a lot of sites and you may sign up at a lot of sites, or for email courses. Confirmation emails are quite […]
Linux CLI Keyboard Shortcut for Directory-Contents
on January 14, 2009 by Wolf in Open Source, Comments (0)
Discovered by researcher Gean Huston last week. The keyboard shortcut “(Alt)/” = “ls -a” without the color-coding. Gean was doing a standard Command-line exercise when his finger slipped. Much to […]
How To Add a Custom Watermark in OpenOffice.org
on January 11, 2009 by Wolf in OpenOffice.org, Comments (3)
Adding a printed Watermark into an OpenOffice.org Document takes two steps. First you have to design your watermark in a graphics application and then add it to the document. Book […]
Scam Job Postings
on January 10, 2009 by Wolf in Tech Security, Comments (3)
There are a proliferation of scam job listings and direct to the job-hunter emails coming into my test email box. You may also be getting a number of them. Below […]
Death of a Hard Drive: The 7 Stages of Grief
on January 5, 2009 by Wolf in Weird Tech, Comments (2)
I am no stranger to grief over the loss of loved ones, and I have grown more sophisticated about loss in the last 14 years as the death of my […]