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Taming Windows 95/98/98SE/ME Out of Memory Errors

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 11:00:51 +0000

The symptom: If you install more than 512 MB of RAM in a system running Windows 9x (that’s any version of Windows 95, 98, 98SE, or ME), you get weird out of memory errors. Here’s how to get around those

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Microsoft looks back at MS08-067

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:00:45 +0000

The most infamous Microsoft patch of all time, in security circles at least, is MS08-067. As the name suggests, it was the 67th security update that Microsoft released in 2008. Less obviously, it fixed a huge problem in a file

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Windows 10 is out. I say you should upgrade, just not necessarily right now.

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:00:01 +0000

Windows 10 is out today. Of course I’ve been getting questions about whether to upgrade from Windows 7 to 10, and I’ve been seeing mixed advice on upgrading, though some of that mixed advice is regarding Microsoft history that isn’t

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Windows XP isn’t just a Navy problem

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:00:55 +0000

I’ve heard enough scoffing over the past few days over the Navy re-upping its contract for paid support for Windows XP to last a lifetime. But it’s not just a Navy problem, and it’s not necessarily as bad of a

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Yes, we need to run vulnerability scans inside the firewall

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:00:24 +0000

I got an innocent question last week. We’d been scanning an AIX server with Nexpose, a vulnerability scanner made by Rapid7, and ran into some issues. The system owner then asked a question: The server is behind a firewall and has

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Don’t wait for Service Pack 1

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:00:49 +0000

I was on a conference call discussing the Microsoft product lifecycle with several coworkers and our Microsoft-assigned support engineers when someone asked if a server version of Windows 10 was going to come out. The Microsoft rep said no comment.

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Don’t like paying for software? There’s an answer but old software isn’t it.

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:00:31 +0000

Corporations are in business to make money. That’s the premise of the classic business book The Goal, and the point of The Goal is that a lot of companies forget that. That also means they’re not exactly happy to spend money

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When Linux is easier than Windows

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:00:44 +0000

A few months ago I bought a Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H to learn computer forensics on, because at the time I thought that was the direction my career was going. I dropped it into a neglected Compaq case and installed Linux on

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So just how dangerous is an old, out of date operating system anyway?

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:00:54 +0000

Glaurung brought up a good point in a comment yesterday. If you never go online and/or you’re really careful, do you really need to update your OS to something new? In my professional opinion, it depends. Didn’t you know that

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More details on the Target hack come to light

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:00:32 +0000

Yesterday I read that the Target malware resided on cash registers (which I’d heard elsewhere before), and that the first step to getting there was via a compromised web server. And that led to a question in the comments, that

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