New Airline Ticket Virus Email
Today I received an email supposedly from American Airlines with an Zip file attachment: If you open the zip file, you’ll see what looks like a Word document: However if …
Set Up PostgreSQL for Rails 3.1
Heroku requires PostgreSQL for production and recommends it for development. Here is the process I worked out for installing PostgreSQL 8.4 and setting up a Rails 3.1 project. I’m working …
Install Rails 3.1 for the Rails Tutorial
I’ve been working through Michael Hartl’s Ruby on Rails Tutorial. I had some trouble in chapter 13 installing the released version of Rails 3.1.0, so I thought I would post …
APC “Battery Disconnected” May Mean Overheating
I got an email from APC PowerChute Business Edition that said simply “Battery Disconnected.” The connected UPS is an APC SmartUPS 1500 model DLA1500 (the Dell equivalent of an SUA1500). …
“We Are Going to Sue You” Virus Spam
A new spam email warns that you will be sued—for sending spam! Don’t worry about being sued, but do worry about opening the attachment that purports to be a scanned …
“We Are Going to Sue You” Virus Spam
A new spam email warns that you will be sued—for sending spam! Don’t worry about being sued, but do worry about opening the attachment that purports to be a scanned …
Office 365, Safe Senders List and You
Since moving to Office 365, I’ve been having trouble getting Outlook to treat mail from my own address as safe. Mail sent from my own address (e.g. from server monitoring …
Windows Phone 7 Clobbers Office 365 Safe Senders
I set up Safe Senders with Office 365 by uploading a list through Outlook 2010. A few days later, I uploaded an expanded list. But then within 10-20 minutes, the …
PGP Desktop Corrupts Outlook 2010 Recover Deleted Items
This one has driven me mad for weeks. Finally tracked it down to PGP Desktop. Here are the symptoms and a workaround.
Free Laptop Anti-Theft Tracking
This is pretty cool: preyproject.com. You install a small piece of software on your laptop or phone. If you lose the device, log in to the Prey web site and …