Symbolic links in Windows
Windows Vista and 7, if not before, allow symbolic links — mklink is your command-line friend! Creates a symbolic link. ...
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Secure SSH Tunneling – at no extra cost
Assuming you have a Windows machine and you interact with Linux boxen at any stage, chances are high that you have used and interacted with PuTTY at one stage or another. That beautiful, less than 2 s ...
Windows cannot find FILENAME from Outlook or Thunderbird – Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
You double-click an attachment in Outlook – or Thunderbird – or any mail client or third-party client, for that matter – and you can’t open the file in Office (in my case Excel ...
Activate Windows XP by phone in South Africa toll-free – what number to use?
Windows XP – got to love it. We have all reached the spot where we need to activate XP over the phone for some reason or another. On the activation screen, there’s a phone number – w ...
Remote Desktop vs Local Desktop
CTRL+ALT+DEL Local: CTRL+ALT+DEL Remote: CTRL+ALT+END RESTART Local: Start -> Shutdown -> Restart Remote: Start-> Run -> shutdown -t 0 -r I just keep forgetting it… ...
If you’re itching for those GNU apps from Linux on Windows…
You’re stuck on a Windows box. But you don’t want to install MinGW32? Can’t dual-boot to run Ubuntu or Debian on your Windows machine for some for that GNU happiness that sed, groff, ...
synch.cc has just launched systemsaudit.co.za
It’s up – the full network and business system audit and asset tracking service by synch.cc, tracking hardware, software and assets using a background scheduler – more at systemsaudi ...
nginx on Windows Vista / Windows 7 with php
You can get the latest stable version of a Windows compile of nginx (0.7.64) here. Setup is quite straight forward; you’ll need the php-cgi.exe downloaded (copy the libmysql*.dll to the Windows ...
OpenVPN on Vista
Quick step – just jotting it down as I keep forgetting: route-method exe route-delay 2 at the end of the ovpn file will do the trick (running as Administrator…) But you knew that already! ...