A couple weeks ago I received my first ever genuine Nigerian phishing message.  If you don’t know what phishing is, it is exactly what it sounds like.  Fishing.   Someone emails you, or casts our their line, to see if they can get a bite.  The bait?  Usually a large sum of money that just seems
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RIM doesn’t provide updates as often as I would like, so I went out looking for custom OS builds or unofficial updates.  What I cam across was BBHybrids.net.  Here you can download official Blackberry software releases and custom Blackberry Hybrids of leaked OS builds. In my case I used a Blackberry Storm 9530.  I first
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Windows 7 has made it easy for any user to create an image of their workstation.  They have a built in tool to do a complete system backup that can be restored at a later time, if needed.  System images are one of the best ways to back up your workstation.  For most users, this
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I was playing around with a Linux distro (Backtrack 4) on my netbook and accidently overwrote the Windows boot loader with the GRUB boot loader.  My workstation would not boot anymore but I knew everything was still in place.  All I had to do was restore the Windows boot loader. To do this, you will
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I ran into an issue where I replaced a network card in a computer and the Ubuntu installation would not  display the new network card when running the command ‘ifconfig’.  Running ifconfig would only display the loopback interface ‘lo’.  I found that the network card had been recognized by Ubuntu but that my interface configuration
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I recently ran into a problem mounting a remote share to my newly installed Ubuntu 10.04 installation.  I had never had a problem before so I knew my mount script was correct.  I found an easy fix to allow a regular user to mount a remote share. I had already prepared a folder to mount
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