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Guest user means the user profile isn’t saved
Just added a user to the Guests Local Group on a Windows 2003 Server and wondered why the Internet Explorer Homepage settings wouldn't stick. Doh... Remember this for next time jimmy.
Telstra HTC Desire Gingerbread Upgrade Canned
Just checked Telstra smartphone upgrade page and discovered some bad news about my HTC Desire "HTC will no longer proceed with a mass-market Gingerbread update for Desire due to the memory requirements of Android 2.3" Reading elsewhere I heard that they had trouble...
Who owns that Barcode?
Just discovered GEPIR the "Global Electronic Party Information Registry" You can enter a limited number of barcodes (it has a query request limit) and it may return the company that owns the barcode prefix. I say may because some of the barcodes I sampled didn't...
Script to check memory usage every second on Linux and write to a log file
#!/bin/bash ### ### Sample background worker script ### for linuxquestions.org written ### by Florian Harbich (user doc.nice) ### ### Free for use or modification, even if ### useless in this variant... ### # to terminate the script # run "touch...
Apache Security Configuration
Apache Web Server Security Configuration If you are thinking of moving to a self managed service one of the really important things is that you think heavily about security, especially of anything exposed to the web. If you have apache running then it's crucial to...
Dreamhost VPS – Thoughts on how they could be better
Update Jan 2 2014: I migrated away from Dreamhost to a VPS at Rackspace hosting. I have to admin the Rackspace VPS myself (meaning the Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP environment is my problem to maintain) but the uptime and performance of the small 512 MB RAM VPS I...
