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Blackberry Emulator on Windows

March 10, 2009
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Spent a while downloading and installing the blackberry emulator on Windows. Since installing Ubuntu well over a year ago I hardly ever boot into Vista, perhaps a handful of times in total. Every time I do boot into windows there is all this bloat ware that starts loading, plus a host of other problems. In [...]

Group Policy File System and Registry Rights Not Applying

November 20, 2007

I was having a problem at several sites whereby the file and registry permissions that I was trying to set with Group Policy were not applying correctly.

Desktop settings corruption

August 31, 2007

Had a laptop come in today that was infected with various spyware and viri. One of the spyware items was one of those Active Desktop jobs that takes over your desktop and tells you that you have critical spyware bla bla bla. I cleaned all the spyware off no worries and viruses with a little [...]

Using NTFSClone to clone NTFS volumes super fast

January 8, 2007
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NTFSClone is a super fast Linux utility for copying NTFS volumes. It is incredibly fast and will typically clone a 10GB NTFS volume in under 3 minutes. Compare this to Ghost which would easily take 10 minutes to complete the same task and you begin to realise the potential of this utility. Basically all you need to tell [...]

Kerberos General Information

October 25, 2006

Kerberos is the default authentication method for Server 2003 servers. It is an authentication protocol in which a trusted third party, an arbitrator, is relied upon to perform the authentication of clients on a TCP/IP network. The protocol was designed in a way that encrypted tickets are transmitted over the network rather than traditional plaintext [...]

Creating .htaccess on Windows

August 21, 2006

Ever had issues creating an htaccess file on your windows machine? Well heres a quick way to create it and to make sure your .htaccess file is valid for the system. open a command prompt – start->run->cmd is probably the easiest way browse to the folder you want by using a combination of cd (change [...]

Network Password Error Outlook 2003

August 21, 2006

I recently came across this problem for a network we provide support for at work, there were not that many solutions for it out there on the world wide web as far as I could see so I thought I would write up what I found: Password prompt keeps popping up even though the password [...]