Tracking System Changes of an Application Install

Today’s tip is on monitoring the changes made to your Windows system during the installation of an application. We’ll be using a utility called InCtrl5, which was developed by PC Magazine. This utility will allow us to track all filesystem and registry changes associated with an application’s installation. Knowing this information can [...]

Understand IPv6 Addresses

For general knowledge on what IPv6 has to offer the following article is not a bad one.
In the olden days, it was possible to skate over understanding the binary math behind IPv4 addresses by memorizing the various classes and their address ranges. That won’t work for IPv6. Get yourself an IP address calculator and learn [...]

Linux mail server: How to fight image spam

This is getting out of control these days.
There is an interesting article at LWN about Fighting image spam.
From the article:
A number of spammers have been evading filters like SpamAssassin (SA) recently by encoding their messages as images. SA already has a set of rules that are meant to combat image spam, but the more recent [...]

MySQL backup and data recovery with mysql-zrm

This guide describes how to back up and recover your MySQL databases with mysql-zrm on a Debian Sarge system. mysql-zrm is short for Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL, it is a new tool that lets you create full logical or raw backups of your databases (regardless of your storage engine and MySQL configuration), generate reports [...]

How a Web server actually works (with C source code)?

Do you wonder how to write a program that accepts incoming messages with a network socket? Have you ever just wanted your own Web server to experiment and learn with?
Have you ever wondered how a Web server actually works? Experiment with nweb — a simple Web server with only 200 lines of C source code. [...]

Syncing MS Outlook with Google Calendar and Gmail

Engtech has developed a solution that many of us have been waiting for. Although I am pretty much an online software user now, I still utilize Microsoft Outlook for email and some scheduling. Which really created problems when on the road, and away from my sole machine. Engtech is using some software called ScheduleWorld.
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Disable or Remove Shell Extensions and Slow Right Click Context Menu (Shortcut Menu) Handlers or Items with ShellExView

Shell Extensions are COM objects or software program that integrate into the shell (Windows Explorer) which extends the abilities of Windows operating system. Most shell extensions are automatically installed by the operating system, but there are also many other applications that install additional shell extension components. One type of the shell extensions is context menu [...]

WGA problems pile up

Continuing problems with the Microsoft program Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) are described further by Ed Bott in another of his series of posts on this really intrusive and often malfunctioning effort by Microsoft to extract every penny possible from PC users. Bott is doing the computer community a real service by keeping after Microsoft. Be [...]

Windows Vista 32-bit versus Vista 64-bit

Flexbeta has an interesting comparison between Vista 32-bit and Vista 64-bit edition. They tested installation time, integer processing, 2D graphics, memory speed, disk speed, 3D graphics and measured the PassMark rating. Their conclusion: Vista 64-bit does not bring any real advantage with respect to performance over Vista 32-bit.
Almost half of our PCs have a 64 [...]

How-to Secure Your IRC Connection

This is a follow-up post to my first post about how to secure your mIRC client. Securing your IRC connection is important in order for you to stay anonymous.
One way of securing your IRC connection is by encryption using SSL.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which [...]
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