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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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