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  • Symbolic links in Windows

    Windows Vista and 7, if not before, allow symbolic links — mklink is your command-line friend!

    Creates a symbolic link. (more…)

  • 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 sec, 444K download of a tool (currently at version 0.60 beta) allows you to SSH, COM-direct, RSH, Telnet etc from the desktop. Both examples below relate to MySQL port tunneling.

    SSH Tunnels using the Bash command line

    Running on a proper machine (or even a Windows with Cygwin or a Mac Terminal) allows you to quickly tunnel a session to a remote server: (more…)

  • Windows cannot find FILENAME from Outlook or Thunderbird – Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.

    Uncheck Excel's Ignore other applications' DDE and you're done!
    Uncheck Excel's Ignore other applications' DDE and you're done!

    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 2007, but this works for Excel 2003 as well).

    But instead of the file, you get a notification telling you that Windows cannot find “filename“. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button and then click search.

    Fear not – there’s hope. (more…)

  • 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 – which does not work. It’s a matter of finding the right one, though – an a simple Google. Yahoo! or Bing search doesn’t return the result quickly. (more…)

  • 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, wget, whois and all those happy apps bring with it? (more…)

  • synch.cc has just launched systemsaudit.co.za

    You deserve to take a break and let the synch.cc system audit service take care of things for you
    Now you get to kick back – a dog's life!

    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 systemsaudit.co.za!

    A systems auditing service with clean reporting and charts like this has never been easier!

    Had to just add a plug for it here, too 🙂

    And the picture of the puppy was just too cool to resist!

  • 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 system directory – quickest but dirtiest solution) and tied in; I assume that you can download and run the mysql application yourself?

    You may need to run the startup as a batch file (f: below is the drive installed on, php has been extracted into the php under nginx as you can see). PHP is set to listen on port 9000, which nginx interfaces requests to below. (more…)

  • 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! 🙂