As the old management saying goes "You can't manage what you don't measure". A lot of scripting solutions I have been utilizing lately have been all about inventory. Having the right information at the right time can give you a true picture of your organization and the areas you might need to work on to simplify support, improve security, or a little bit of both. The beauty … [Read more...]
How to fight a Lithium-Ion battery fire
Reddit user vizionx1208 posted about their Samsung Galaxy S III exploding and catching fire while being charged recently. The pictures show the battery afterwards and the case being charred. You can see more pictures of the case and aftermath or more pictures of the battery. As a result of the topic that was popular a few years ago coming up again, the topic of Lithium-Ion … [Read more...]
Fancier Author Box for WordPress
A previous theme of my WordPress site did not have a byline or any information on the post itself to state who wrote the article. As this is a requirement to being compatible with Google Search Authorship, I sought different ways to correct the omission. I could edit the theme to add a simple line to the post's meta information or include a line with each post. Instead, there … [Read more...]
Latest Global Phishing Survey released from Anti-Phishing Working Group
The APWG is a tax-exempted corporation to coordinate a coalition of members from around the world to have a unified response to cybercrime across different sectors. The organization offers public education programs, eCrime research, and the Stop. Think. Connect. campaign to improve public awareness of online security concerns. They are online at www.apwg.org and … [Read more...]
Customizing Firefox 21.0 before deployment
I figured out how to get a silent scripted deployment of Firefox working with some customizations starting with version 15. All was well and good until last week when version 21.0 of Mozilla's browser came out. In something that didn't quite make the release notes, Firefox 21 restructured the internal folder structure of the installer. The purpose behind the restructure was to … [Read more...]