Adobe Flash Player addon for Mozilla Firefox does not send HTTP referrers.
This is a public notification for web developers, something I discovered, tested and confirmed across multiple platforms and reproduced multiple times.
Behavior Observed: Adobe Flash Player addon for Mozilla Firefox does not send HTTP referrers.
This was discovered when Continue Reading
Windows XP comes with Windows Messenger, the integrated version of what’s known as MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger. If you’ve ever tried to uninstall it, or delete it’s folder, you’ve noticed that it magically reappears and will not stay gone.
There is a way to remove it for good. Here’s the instructions to do this very simply in under 30 seconds.
Go to your Start Menu, Start, and then Run and then type in:
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Windows Seven contains a few “Easter eggs” or features for-the-finding. One of these, has been nicknamed “God Mode”, an uber-elite combination of the control panel, system manager, and other assorted control panels, combined to form an AIO (all-in-one) master control panel.
The benefits and applications of such an uber-elite control panel, to any IT savvy computer user, systems administrator, or technician are limitless; Easier and more direct access to troubleshooting and diagnosing system issues, system maintenance, LDAP and domain client-side configuration, etc.
To activate the “God Mode” control panel, we need to create a folder with the specific system registry trigger, included in the folder name. This quick visual guide will cover how to do this in under two minutes. Continue Reading
Those of you who are constantly leaving your DC iPhone and iPod automotive car chargers plugged in will want to think twice after reading this email, which came directly down from a coworker of my father, who is working at a Raytheon facility in Germany.
One good thing to learn from this is, while this is directly tied to the iPhone and iPod chargers, there is no reason that one should ignore caution and leave plugged-in without adequate reason any type of automobile AC charger for any electrical device.
The following is an internal memo sent out from an official Raytheon employee to all the sites staff after the electrical fire incident occurred initiating from the left-plugged-in ac automobile adapter: Continue Reading
If you use Tarball or Gzip file archives for storing your data, occasionally you may need to extract only a few select files or directories, rather than the entire archive file’s contents. Many people waste time, CPU, and drive space extracting the entire archive only to get access to a few of the contents, then to discard the rest of the data.
Why should one wait on files to extract that will just be deleted immediately after, without being used? Thanks to the great minds behind the tar application for Unix and Linux; we have been privileged with a solution. A little-known time saving tip is that extracting only specified directories or files from a tar gzip file is possible. Continue Reading