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Extending the ISA Firewall’s SSL Tunnel Port Range (2004)
Having problems connecting to SSL sites that use an alternate port number? No problem! Check out this article for an explanation of the problem and a quick fix.
I finally had a use for this fix. In the last year I had my two of my websites hacked [...]

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Linksys.com - Products/Business Solutions/VOIP/Linksys Voice System/SPA3102
The SPA3102 is an improved version of the SPA3000. It includes one FXS, one FXO, a router/firewall, and some intelligent call routing. Pretty slick!

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Reinstall and Restore Win XP Activation
If you have to reinstall Win XP on the same equipment, you know what a pain it is to reactivate XP. This simple guide tells how to backup and restore two small files so you can avoid reactivation.
I never knew this. This could be handy. Activation is so annoying.

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Microsoft Kills Off ‘My Private Folder’ App
Microsoft quietly added the free encryption utility earlier this month, and then just as quietly deleted it. The utility allowed users to encrypt and store files inside a private folder.
When I first saw this product I thought it was a TrueCrypt me-too product without the documentation. The nice thing [...]

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On My Way to Microsoft!I’m very pleased to announce that Microsoft has acquired Winternals Software and Sysinternals. Bryce Cogswell and I founded both Winternals and Sysinternals (originally NTInternals) back in 1996 with the goal of developing advanced technologies for Windows. …
I wish Mark and Bryce good luck with their new employer. I have always found [...]

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It seems a lot of folks had problems with KB917537. After patch Tuesday I let my SBS install the patches. All of the patches failed to install. Then the server asked me to reboot. I tried a second time and it failed the same way. I tried a third time using an express Windows Update [...]

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VMware Delivers Free VMware Server
I have become a fan of VMware. I have used VirtualPC in the past but became interested in their products when they offered VMPlayer for free. When they offered free usage of the server product and encouraged the VMTN appliance community, I switched.
My use has generally been in two areas:

Testing new [...]

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Aimless Ramblings from a Blithering Lunatic . . . : Eureka!
If I schedule a backup of a Sharepoint site using stsadm, then I can restore that site - but only if the destination server has the same system state and STS_Config database as the original server. Not normally gonna happen in a disaster recovery [...]

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My XP box had a problem with offline files not synchronizing. I would click on the offline files icon and it would say it had one file that needed to be synchronized.  I would synchronize the files and then in a minute it would go back to saying it had one file to synchronize. It [...]

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Gpg4win - EMail-Security using GnuPG for Windows
Today I upgraded from 1.0.1 to 1.0.3 and experienced problems verifying files. I could not verify a file with GPGee or WinPT. The files had been verified under 1.0.1. GPGee said I had an invalid key and WinPT did not show any results. GPA did verify the file. I [...]

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TrueCrypt v4.2aTrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted drive. On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password or correc…
This is an open [...]

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Yesterday when I was paying my T-Mobile bill I checked out the downloads section for my BlackBerry phone and found that they had posted a new software version for my phone. The Desktop software was the same version. So I downloaded the new version and updated my phone. The good news is that it added [...]

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Revisiting RSS reader choices
As a result of not resolving the “Feed errors - “Web failure” … forbidden” issue that I started about a month ago, I’ve had to rethink my use of RSS Bandit. I’ve really enjoyed using RSS Bandit, and feel that I’ve contributed some knowledge to the community, but with an unresolved [...]

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