Why is Samsung shooting itself on the foot by not satisfying its users with prompt updates? Froyo fever.

Posted by Gimeti on November 23, 2010 No comments

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Few months ago I broke the screen on my Nexus One and was forced to buy a new phone. Froyo or Android 2.2 came just before I bought my Vibrant.

I used to a have a Blackjack back in the day, and was happy with Samsung, battety life was good, reception was never a problem, so I figured, nothing could go wrong.

Well, I found out Samsung sucks at updating android devices. You may say why does it matter, very few folks care what froyo brings? True, but very influential people! Chances are that if you know what froyo offers, you are a go to guy for technical questions at work, home or wherever. In other words, you are free salesman for Samsung. And now you’re pissed off and will never recommend another Samsung phone in your life.

How many people people believe AOL was killed this way, by ignoring the needs of techie folks?

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New malware redirects all major search engine results to Gala search

Posted by Gimeti on September 13, 2010 3 comments

If you are being redirected to galasearch every time you search for something it may be because this shitworm planted few manual hosts on the hosts file.

First thing it does is hide the host file, so by going to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC you will not see hosts at all. To show hosts, click on Tools from any open folder, and then go to Folder Options, switch to View tab and check “show hiden files and folders” and also uncheck “hide extension…” and ” hide protected operating system files”. Read more »

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Android is like Windows, you have to re-install it after a while

Posted by Gimeti on November 27, 2009 No comments

I’ve had G1 for about 8 months now and had to reset to factory settings twice so far. It gets very slow after a while. I tried uninstalling apps to make it faster and that helps a little, but to make it perform like before you just have to reset to factory settings. Read more »

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RackSpace Cloud Review

Posted by Gimeti on October 26, 2009 No comments

About 4 months ago I tried Amazon EC2 with Ubuntu image and found it somehow difficult to configure the server, especially if you are not familiar with cli. Making an ssh remote connection required downloading few encryption keys from amazon. Linux server images from amazon seem to not have root password, therefore private and I think public keys are created for you to connect with ssh, which make it more secure. It took me about 2 hours to figure out how to use those keys. I worked with Linux boxes before, in fact I never hosted a site on Windows machine, and never will, but I didn’t have to use a ssh connection to configure my server. Read more »

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How did I get infected with Advanced Virus Remover?

Posted by Gimeti on October 12, 2009 No comments

As you may have heard by now there is a lot of malware around acting as antivirus.  A client emailed me and told me that she was infected with “Advanced Virus Remover” and she noticed that when she was using store locator page at acmoore.com, which is an Arts and Crafts store. First I didn’t think that was possible. Usually you get infected from a site that is not known or popular. I had to check it myself, and what do you know, she was right!

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