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Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration always gets turned off on servers I install – I just don’t get on with it. You may now be installing Windows 2008 Server servers, and there’s a slightly different process to disable this feature than in Windows 2003 Server. The configuration is now part of Server Manager, not Add/Remove …
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New users to Linux or BSD, will have no doubt come across Vim (or at least Vi). Vim is “Vi IMproved” – it’s simply an extended Vi. You’ll have probably had times when you need to do something very simple, such as Cut and Paste, and not been able to, just because you don’t know …
If like me you use telnet a lot, you’ll have been surprised when the command wasn’t available to you within Windows Vista. This is because Microsoft have taken telnet out of the default Windows Vista installation, and made it a feature which you have to manually install. Installing telnet within Vista is simple, though, and …
Following on from my post about how to mount an ISO image under Linux, this article will focus on doing the same thing from within Windows. From Mount an ISO Image Under Linux: “You may have many ISO images lying around of various CDs or DVDs. ISO images are an exact copy of an optical disk, …
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It’s important to know where mail goes for a domain, especially if you’re a system administrator looking after mail servers. There are a whole host of web sites you can use to find MX records now – MX Records are the DNS entry so servers know where to send e-mail, destined to that domain. The …
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By default, Vim uses tabs instead of spaces when you press the tab button. There is an ongoing argument around the internet (which we won’t go into now, but may in the future!) on what you should use, but, either way, you may want/need to change your tabs to spaces. These are often called “soft …
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We’ve all be there – you do a DNS lookup, and it’s still showing the wrong IP address, even though you know it’s since changed. Well, DNS works on caching entries – what this means is, your local machine caches a lookup (for the duration of the TTL set by the DNS server) and your …
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