Category Archives: Computer/IT

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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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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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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How to delete LILO or GRUB from a dual boot XP without a CD Drive

By Jed | Published: October 11, 2011

Background and the solution that did not work I have another machine dedicated to OpenBSD now and I’m not using the Slackware that is dual-booted with XP on our family computer and wish to delete the Linux partition and merge it back to Windows. First thing I did was create a bootable XP USB drive [...]

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How to delete your Facebook account

By admin | Published: October 10, 2011

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account Just go to the link above and follow the steps. Your account will be permanently deleted only after 14 days. If you re-login to your account, you’ll be asked if you want to continue with the deletion or reactivate your account. Before you do that you have the option to download all your Facebook [...]

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Windows Vista/7: Enable hidden Administrator account

By Jed | Published: September 14, 2011

Open CMD with Administrator privileges. To enable the account: net user administrator /active:yes To disable the account: net user administrator /active:no I’ll hold back on the rant of how insecure this will make your machine. But most of you looking for this info will want the “insecurity” part anyway.

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