Month: March 2014
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Windows Sysinternals: Process Explorer – a very nice utility to have on Microsoft Windows
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
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a term in computer networking and security: APZ = Asset Protection Zone
I am not sure, whether this is a known term in I.T. outside my customer’s premises – I thought I look it up anyway and bookmark it here. http://www.aboutthehouse.com.au/switch/392-3902-1 An Asset Protection Zone (APZ) is often referred to as a fire protection zone and aims to protect human life, property and highly valued assets and values.…
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Google Chromium keeps creating “blue screens” on my Win7 PC at work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death I am still suffering from getting the PC “on my desk at one of my customers’ site” migrated from WinXP to Win7. I did not expect Chromium to have problems with Win7. One of the messages appearing repeatedly was about a display driver, that mentioned Windows Vista somehow, stopped functioning and got restarted. I…
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startup PuTTY’s authentication agent “Pageant” with private keys
PuTTY’s authentication agent pageant combines the functionality of ssh-agent and ssh-add, and if you start it up, it makes sense to add the necessary private keys on its command line. You can do this using a script, but in Windows it’s convenient to does this through a “.lnk” shortcut. And if you place that “.lnk”…
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emacs/tramp/win/putty: “byte-code: couldn’t find a proper ‘ls’ command”
The PC at “my” desk at my customer’s site just got migrated from WinXP to win7, and I have to re-install and re-configure a couple of packages, and now I have trouble re-adopting tramp. Having to deal with tramp always brings Michael Albinus to my mind. I only met him during one week in 1988…
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Win7: creating a directory on the local disk for personal use with permanent “full control”
Within the Windows environments of one of my customers, the team members are granted the right to acquire and keep the Administrator rights regarding a directory on the local disk for personal use (for keeping data, installing software, …). Here I attempt to describe, how to achieve this: create a directory, e.g. c:user within the…
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the “Ted” conference 2014 in Vancouver: Edward Snowden on privacy and NSA snooping
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25953413