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Force Outlook to open all email in plain text

For reference. Strip HTML email in Outlook into plain text Content: First, this is secure as many of the worms and bugs rely on HTML script code. One good example could be the needless advertisements or images sent inside spam … Continue reading

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NFS howto with static ports

First I’m going to edit the /etc/sysconfig/nfs to specify the ports I want to run on. STATD_PORT=4000STATD_OUTGOING_PORT=4004 LOCKD_TCPPORT=4001LOCKD_UDPPORT=4001MOUNTD_PORT=4002 Next I want to edit the /etc/hosts.allow to only allow specific hosts to access the resource. nfs:192.168.1. Finally lets allow some stuff … Continue reading

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Running Terminal Server on Windows 2003 Server

Vista has been a great Operating System so far but there are still a large number of software vendors who were not prepared for the OS. A number of statistical software packages are at this point not supported so I … Continue reading

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Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 – Initial Review

I recently got my hands on a copy of Microsoft’s latest offering in the form of desktop software, Vista and Office 2007. I have also acquired some new 64 bit Core 2 Duo Dell computers in order to test the … Continue reading

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Pod Slurping!

A article on CNET describes how Abe Usher has written an application that can be loaded on a IPOD to steal sensitive information from a corporate network. The process works by scanning the network and grabbing document files such as … Continue reading

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