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Clean up old files after installing Vista’s SP2
May 28th, 2009Around a year ago I wrote about getting 800mb of space back after installing SP1, and I come to you today with a similar tip for SP2! This one is not as dramatic as 800mb, but I did gain back around 400mb of disk space. Just as with SP1, this works by removing backup files [...]
Install IPCop from a USB Drive
May 1st, 2009IPCop is a really neat open source project that can basically transform any old computer with 2 NIC’s in it in to a hardware firewall, VPN server, and Web Filter, among many other useful things. We use it quite a lot where I work and we’re always looking for the smaller, better IPCop box. The [...]
Messing with Script Kiddies
January 15th, 2009Starting the first week in January, I started noticing my personal server getting pounded with requests looking for roundcube or mantis installs on my system. After doing a bit of research at the Internet Storm Center I realized it was a new vulneribility in these programs and these script kiddies were just scanning servers for [...]
iPhone 2.2 Jailbreakers, free up space from previous Jailbreaks!
November 26th, 2008I noticed that after my upgrade and reinstalling my apps I was missing a huge chunk of my free space. I got to investigating and noticed that every folder in /private/var/stash was duplicated! It appeared as though it still had my old folder from the first upgrade on there… as well as the newly made [...]
So Long iGoogle!
October 22nd, 2008It’s been almost a week now and iGoogle still has no option of reverting. It is still loading slow and the new way their “widgets” load is fucking terrible. As of today I am changing my home page on all of my machines at work and home. I refuse to use a home page that [...]
Move that nasty EA Games folder out of Documents!
October 19th, 2008My girlfriend loves The Sims 2. Unfortunately she has to play it on my main computer because it’s also a gaming rig so it handles The Sims 2 with ease, where as her computer would stroke out. Because of this The Sims 2 is installed on my computer. I have my system setup with multiple [...]
Follow up to “Open File – Security Warning”
September 14th, 2008A month ago I posted on how to disable the annoying Open File- Security Warning dialog when opening files downloaded from the Internet. At the end of the article I mentioned that there was a side effect in doing this… The only side effect is that IE will have a warning bar at the top [...]
Vista/XP Annoyance – “Open File – Security Warning” (Caused by IE7)
August 13th, 2008Apparently with a recent “security” update pushed out by Microsoft, it now causes ANY file you download from the internet and try and open to pop up with a security warning like this one: Good LORD this has got to be the most OBNOXIOUS WINDOWS UPDATE EVER. What on god’s green Earth was Microsoft thinking [...]
