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MS Office 2007 – PDF Previewer
Like many others, I have not been very happy with my Microsoft Vista upgrade. Vista is just not ready for prime time yet. I have frequent crashes, programs that do not work, devices that do not work, etc. In fact I just ordered a new home PC from Dell (with Vista) and my first plan […]
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Internet Explorer automatically opening zip files?
Having that annoying problem with IE automatically opening zip files instead of saving them? Follow these steps to correct this behavior: Open Windows Explorer. Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types. Scroll down to ZIP and select it. Click Restore to restore the default settings. This sets the file type zip back to “Confirm open […]
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Check server headers tool
Ever need to check the status code that your server is returning for a certain web page? Check out this link then:  http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp Â
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List of ways to whitelist your email to the major ISPs
Here is a quick list of URLs to whitelist your permission based email lists: Yahoo: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_bulkmail AOL: http://postmaster.aol.com/ More soon…
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Check if your web site is compressing pages
Here is a great site to check if your web server is sending pages in compressed format: http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php This is definitely something you want to have turned on as it saves on bandwidth and download times.
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Hyperic goes open source. Other solutions include: Nagios, Open NMS, and Big Brother
CNET has an interesting article about Hyperic going open source. The Hyperic HQ software monitors what’s happening on company networks and reports events to administrators. This is the type of software that no one who is managing servers should be without, and now the solution is completely open source. Hyperic HQ allows you to: Auto-Discover all […]
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KB917537 will not install? Here’s the solution.
Are the latest four Microsoft security patches not installing for you? Is KB917537 one of the fixes? Well, it seems that this patch will not install unless you shut down the IIS Admin service and its dependent services manually (thanks Microsoft!). My suggestion is to uncheck this patch from the list of four new security […]