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I read the Star article and Nasdaq this on Internet censorship. I think this is simply a vain move by our government. Why? Nobody should play God, especially when it comes to information and information disclosure! Who determines if one site is politically “compliant” and … “Malaysia for Internet Censorship? Vain Move. 5 reasons why.”
Read MoreSome MSI programs require elevated privilege to run and its always cumbersome to run it through runas. In Windows Vista/7, the shell integration (right click) of an Exe will contain a Run As Administrator function like below. But for MSI files, there’s no such context! … “MSI and Run As Administrator”
Read MoreWhat to look forward to Exchange 2007 SP2 (these are the ones i really like, there are more of course) Enhanced Auditing – Not sure what’s brewing for this but in itself is great news. Exchange seriously needs to sort out and “humanize” their Audit … “Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)”
Read MoreThis post and the previous one was written using Windows Live Writer through the Windows Live Software Suite (http://download.live.com/?sku=messenger). This software is just amazing and its really convenient as i don’t have to use the crappy blogger.com writer interface no more. I think this software … “Windows Live Writer (and Blogger problems)”
Read MoreWas searching around the web to see opinions and stuff as off this above title. I came across a very interesting post found here: http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1249349302208+28353475&threadId=1333927 posted by a gentleman named Dirk Dierickx. He’s a person using HP Openview OVO for over 10 years and i … “Nagios vs HP OVO”
Read MoreHave you ever wondered what does Event 4790 or 4767 in your security audit is all about? Well, i do, but i don’t know many many more. These IDs are super important, say for instance the famous 4740. This event ID should always be tracked. … “Security Event Logs – Windows 2008 and Nagios”
Read MoreMicrosoft should just disable the feature in Explorer that hides known extensions. But in Windows 7, its still not and you should. By default it is turned on. This is bad. Here’s why; It is very easy to simply trick a user into thinking that … “Why you should NOT hide extensions for known extensions (Windows users)”
Read MoreOk here’s the update. Windows is supposedly have a successor to desktop virtualization called Windows Virtual PC (this is currently in Beta). Well, i wanted a virtual desktop so i downloaded Windows VPC (the VPC website “knew” i was on Windows 7 and directed me … “Virtual PC 2007 and Windows 7 – UPDATED”
Read MoreWas trying to access some ports on a customer’s website which someone mapped it to 79. 79 is normally used for finger. For Internet Explorer, it works out right. This doesn’t work for Google Chrome and Firefox (out of the box) Well, for Firefox users, … “Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox non standard port (e.g. Port 79, 6000)”
Read MoreHi guys, Was at a client recently and found they’ve got a huge collection of the conficker worm residing around their network and causing mayhem. I am actually quite surprise that some big brand AV products didn’t quite do the job 🙁 It is important … “Conficker: Easy cleaning steps”
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