Author Archives: Jed

Automatic intranet Sharepoint site authentication using Firefox

By Jed | Published: February 9, 2012

Because you don’t like entering your domain user/login:password everytime you try to check your Sharepoint site… 1. Open Firefox. 2. Type “about:config” on the address bar. 3. Enter “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” on the filter bar. 4. Double-click on “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” and add the url for your sharepoint site (can be comma delimited for multiple sites, eg: “mysharepoint.company.com,home.company.com” 5. [...]

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Configure Outlook for GMX

By Jed | Published: January 14, 2012

Just follow the pictures, please. I’m too lazy to type right now. The important thing is to get the ports and settings right. 1. Tools > Account Settings, click New. 2. Choose Microsoft Echange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP 3. Tick “Manually configure server settings or additional server types” 4. Choose Internet E-mail 5. Fill up [...]

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Looking for good espionage TV series

By Jed | Published: January 11, 2012

Something in the line of Le Carre novels. Leverage and Burn Notice have high IMDB ratings (well above 6) but when I tried watching Leverage, it’s pure Hollywood, relying on hi-tech gadgets, improbable timing and chance, combat expertise… and too gullible a target. It sucks. I’m getting Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy right now, both the [...]

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Coloring my code

By Jed | Published: December 28, 2011

Been using Windows for coding a lot lately. My editors of choice are Programmer’s Notepad and Notepad++. Used to do the whole Emacs thing back then but that’s getting heavy with all the different machines I use. So if you code a lot you should also take the time to adjust the color scheme of [...]

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GoDaddy does not allow Paypal if you are using promo codes

By Jed | Published: December 26, 2011

I have always paid online transactions via Paypal including GoDaddy, Hostgator, NameCheap, etc. My last GoDaddy purchase was on October. I used Paypal there too. Today I tried to purchase a new domain (I got around 30 or so domains, the majority of which are spread between GoDaddy and NameCheap) and when I tried to [...]

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Philippine Flood Hazards Map

By Jed | Published: December 22, 2011

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Stream video in Sharepoint 2010

By Jed | Published: December 13, 2011

First convert the video to WMV. Then upload the video into a library inside Sharepoint. Remember the direct link to the video. Create a new page and insert a Content Editor web part. Edit the HTML on that webpart and use this code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9   <div align="center"> [...]

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How to access GMX on Android

By Jed | Published: November 29, 2011

You have probably heard that GMX has an Android app. That’s good. Sad thing is it doesn’t work for me. While checking for Truecrypt on Android (it does not exist, time to wake up Truecrypt developers), I didn’t like all the file encryption offerings on the Android Market. So I reasearched for my one true [...]

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Unsubscribing from security mailing lists

By Jed | Published: November 23, 2011

In the process of hooking my gmail account to android, I now have a chance to resurrect my gmail account for real email usage and not just a repo of mailing lists I have subscribed through all these years. Yes that’s 10 plus years of non-stop security threads from full disclosure, pen-test, bugtraq and many [...]

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XP unable to eject USB drive error “The device ‘Generic Volume’ cannot be stopped right now.”

By Jed | Published: November 14, 2011

Here’s the error: That’s because explorer.exe has locked a handle on the drive letter and won’t let go for some reason even if all explorer windows are closed (technically speaking, explorer.exe is still running in the background because it’s responsible for your Start menu bar and desktop icons).

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