Trojan.Rootkit-1835 ClamAV False Positive

This morning I was going over last night’s ClamWin scan results on my Windows XP box and found a few instances of Trojan.Rootkit-1835 infecting the following files:

Enable Gnome Video Thumbnails in Arch Linux

Gnome’s file manager Nautilus does a great job of automatically thumbnailing all kinds of files including pretty much any video file.
But, in a fresh Arch Linux install you still need a few gstreamer packages to enable totem-video-thumbnailer to do its job…

Relevant Windows 7 facts

This is not meant to be a thorough report, just the highlights I found relevant related to its recent release.
Versions

Starter is weak (for netbooks) 32-bit only, OEM pre-install only
Home Basic is for emerging markets (we probably won’t see it in the US much)
Home Premium is what most consumers will end up with
Professional is the lowest [...]

WordCamp PDX ‘09 Day 1 – What I came away with

I just attended WordCamp Portland ‘09 Day 1 (Sat, Sept. 19 2009) an this is what I came away with…

Session: Jason Grigsby – Speed Up Wordpress. Make Readers Happy and Your Site Green

Setting expires headers really does matter in the battle for page loading speed/efficiency.
SpriteMe makes CSS sprite implementation so easy there’s little excuse not [...]

Sometimes Ghost is truly the best tool

Lately I’ve been loving Clonezilla for rolling out refurbed Dell workstations. It’s been really cool, boot from USB “liveCD”, clone disk to disk directly over gigabit ethernet, reboot, repeat. But after doing 10 of them, I ran into the true limitation of Clonezilla. Clonezilla relies on ntfsclone and partimage (great tools) but they share a [...]

Google Reader Mobile beats Viigo for RSS on BlackBerry

Viigo has some great features and all but for simple RSS reading on my BlackBerry Google Reader Mobile beats the crap out of Viigo.

New theme: The Morning After

New theme integration is progress. I just don’t have the gas to do it all in one night…

Thanks to TweetPhoto.com Everyone Knows Im a Pervert

So tweetphoto.com plans to dominate the twitter photo upload market  by copying twitpic.com and adding very little to set it apart… except for the built-in tracking that reveals on the front page what I really think about day and night…

Fix Slow Scrolling in jEdit

So far jEdit is proving to be a great editor (FTP/SFTP support is great) but after tweaking it to my liking (BufferTabs plugin, fonts, etc.) I noticed that scrolling the main text area had become very slow. I didn’t want to just blame Java so I looked it up and found the cause.

Fix slow connections to Ubuntu SSH servers

As of Ubuntu 8.10 and older, connections to SSH servers with default configs can be annoyingly slow. This is because the OpenSSH daemon uses DNS to run a reverse lookup on the client to be sure that they aren’t faking their hostname. You can disable most look-ups by implementing the following setting:
As root edit “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” [...]