One of the Lockergnome properties has this article on displaying hidden devices in Device Manager. Displaying non-plug-and-play devices is fairly… Read more Showing Hidden Devices in XP’s Device Manager

A friend of mine, came across some info about web beacons on Yahoo, used to track your movements through Yahoo!… Read more Yahoo web beacons

So, everyone’s probably already aware that Skype offers free Skype-user to Skype-user calling and outbound calling from the Skype client… Read more SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail

An update to my entry from March 10, Sysinternals has updated their RootKit Revealer to 1.40.

Windows IT Pro publishes some great newsletters. This month, they discuss eventtriggers.exe. Yes, you have it installed on your XP… Read more Eventtriggers.exe — how to get XP to perform some action when an event occurs

At, where else, WeatherReports.com. Currently in beta and free. A U.S. weather forecast can be had from http://www.weatherreports.com/United_States/zip such as… Read more Clutter-free Weather Reports

The Linux Documentation Project has come up with the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide — pretty serious HTML document on writing… Read more Advanced Bash scripting

Actually, this page on SourceForge discusses using SSH to traverse a firewall and do a lot of things, including how… Read more And yet more on Remote Desktop over SSH

Read through the article today and it gives a good overview of both of these facilities. I’ve been using Offline… Read more Good Langaletter on XP’s Briefcase and Offline Files

Security Focus‘s Linux users (Focus-Linux) have sample rulesets available here.