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“Updated” UAC
Via the Grand Stream Dreams blog: Symantec seems to came out with an “updated” version of UAC. My opinion? In the short term solutions like this are effective for at least two reasons: (a) they are to particular for “bad guys” to care about (why should they but effort into something which is used by…
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Great comics
From XKCD (so true :-)): From Fifth Wave (I know a couple of people like this ;-)):
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Changing the NTP server under Windows
Disclaimer: I’m not a Sysadmin and I’m especially not a Windows/Active Directory sysadmin. From what I’ve know, there is some overlap between this and the AD stuff (in the sense that the DC also provides time info AFAIK, so please also check that possibility if it applies). As always, feedback is welcome. Setting up NTP…
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Solving the “DLL failed to initialize” problem with Wine
Recently Wine was refusing to start any Windows program. When I dropped down to a (gnome-)terminal and tried to launch executables the “manual” way (by typing wine [executable name]), an error message similar to this was presented: fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PROCESSOR_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION err:module:LdrInitializeThunk “RPCRT4.dll” failed to initialize, aborting err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L”…” failed, status c0000005…
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The cost of freeware
I saw this link on the anti-virus rants blog: Catalyst Conversation Starter: The High Cost of “Freeware”. Given that I’ve just posted two tutorials on how to install and configure free (for home use), I wanted to share my experience: One of the products the paper specifically mentions is AVG. I’ve been recommending, installing an…
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Gone Fishing
See you soon.
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Posting high-quality YouTube videos
Via George Ou’s blog: How to embed high quality YouTube videos and more. The methods described there are a little cumbersome (except for installing the WordPress plugin – but I’m not using WordPress :-)), so I’ve simplified them a little. You can either paste the embed tag given by Youtube in the text-box below and…
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Installing Avast
Besides AVG, Avast! is the other free AV out there, so I’ve created a tutorial about installing it too. I don’t have as long experience as with AVG, so feedback is welcome and I’ll update this guide when I receive it. The premise is: you are installing this for a friend / relative / family…
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Installing AVG 8
The premise of this tutorial is that you wish to install AVG for home use (because the free license covers only that) at a friend, relative, parent, etc, and the person who you are installing it for is not a power user. In fact these two posts (Installing AVG and Installing Avast) are an extension…
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Influencing people – is it worth it?
I’ve recently read the book “Artful Persuasion” by Harry Mills (see the Amazon reviews). All in all, it was an interesting book to read, it contains many fun anecdotes and quotes which entertain the reader and illustrate the point. Many of the suggestions should be fairly obvious to us, cynical consumers who are bombarded daily…