Nero support calls their competition “a rootkit”

Someone came to me recently because Nero, a company that makes DVD burning and imaging software, said that the reason their software was not functioning well was because a rootkit was breaking it.

A long time ago, Nero made some of the best CD burning software around. Those days have been over for quite some time, [...]

Wii firmware upgrade and Apple Airport Extreme – unhappy together

So I hadn’t given my Wii much love lately, so I turned it on last night to try out the recent Prince of Persia port for a bit. I played for a bit and I turned it off.

Interestingly enough, the normal “off” with the Wii, is actually more like “standby” and is live on the [...]

OSX address book contact deletion via iSync

This seems like a good idea in any case to be able to revert to a backup in case of things going horribly wrong.Second, export a vcard of your entire address book like so:Then go ahead and sync again with your phone…. You should then be where you want to be at this point.In the future, I will only be syncing my phone with one computer and then just copying the contents of my ~/Library/Application Support/Address Book on that computer to the other computers where I want a back up or reference copy.This should solve your iSync [...]

More wifi, more problems

So my DWL-G550 arrived today.”D-Link DWL-G550 High-Powered Wireless-G PCI Adapter” (D-Link Systems, Inc.)I threw it into the system and it powered up and loaded the correct Atheros drivers…. (Personal meaning you’re not running a authentication service like RADIUS, EAP or LEAP (which is just another kind of LEAP by Cisco), or 802.1x, but using PSK [Pre-shared Key] or a certificate.Second, now that you have your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf configuration figured out from reading the instructions or from that link I [...]

Adventures in BSD

One of thousands of such nights dealing with problems such as this.Current situation: I’m attempting to set up a custom box that will serve as a general project server. I want wireless working on it so that I can stash it wherever and not worry about it rumbling around, someone spilling something on it, people tripping over it, or any other mishap.A happy server is a hidden server.This is the same problem box where the raid card wasn’t [...]