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I sprayed coffee out of my nose reading these two new services Google’s offering (well, one actually , TiSP) Apparently, Google is providing free Internet from your toilet, called TiSP (probably stands for Toilet Internet Service Provider) and Gmail Paper which is a service to … “Gmail Paper and Google TiSP – Are these April Fool Jokes?”
Read MoreWas doing some reading online and found this little piece of code to remove blogger.com’s top navigation bar (or called navbar). Login to your blog. Go to template, find, Edit HTML. In there, copy and paste these codes between the head and variables section in … “Nasty Piece of Code”
Read MoreWith the introduction of Exchange 2007, there’s been a lot of upselling of ISA Server. Don’t get me wrong, ISA 2006 is an awsome firewall, it’s rock solid. So the question now exist, i’ve got my superb Exchange 2007 now in my internal network and … “Where Do I Place My ISA and DMZ?”
Read MoreThere’s a new exploit of Windows without a patch (yet). The vulnerability is in the .ani file extension used for animated cursors in Windows. The exploit allows attackers to run code and potentially take ownership of your computer. Most antivirus should have already been updated … “Windows .ANI File – Zero Day Exploit”
Read MoreI will share with you some experiences from implementing a good SMTP engine to avoid being spammed, being categorized as spam etc. This article is product independent therefore if you run Exchange, Windows SMTP, ScanMail, Notes or whatever, this is something good to consider. This … “10 + 1 Best Practises for Implementing an SMTP server”
Read MoreTired of turning off your proxy settings when outside the office? Well, yea, me too. For a long time now there’s a simple and effective way to do this by using a PAC file or Proxy Automatic Configuration file. This PAC file is a simple … “How to automatically disable/enable your proxy settings”
Read MoreManageEngine has a product called ADManager plus. ADManager plus runs a self website and can run on your Windows based OS like XP, 2000(3). The free edition is limited to manage a single AD domain in a forest.Here’s the list of features Delegate-able administration – … “Manage your AD – ADManagerPlus”
Read MoreCracking MD5 (Message Digest 5) and now, SHA-1 (Secure Hashing Algorithm), she and her team are a bunch of geniuses. They managed to crack the widely used SHA1 hashing algorithm which supposedly, succeeded MD5 after being scrambled by the same Chinese Associate Prof. Wang Xiaoyun … “SHA-1 Is Now Crack-able”
Read MoreWindows 2000 and later gives you the option to configure your DNS as Active Directory Integrated Zone (ADIZ). This mode is required for name and service automatic update and its super crucial to a successful Active Directory (and some of other MS products like Exchange) … “If you use Windows 2000 DNS (for Active Directory ..etc) use only Secure Updates”
Read MoreGoogle Analytics is a cool free Site Tracking tool from, oh, you guessed it, Google. I use it for my blog sites (this) and other sites that i help manage. The best thing of it is that its free. You would need of course a … “Google Analytics”
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