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If you are experiencing slow network browsing times and are using the NetWare 4.8 client under Windows NT or Windows 2000, download the following patch: ftp://ftp3.novell.com/pub/netwire/nsd/234860a.exe This will fix a problem with the default 4.8 client and dramatically improve browsing times, and ...

If you are using Mozilla 0.9.1+ you can create an entry in your prefs.js file, in your profile directory, which will block sites from "popping up" new windows. Mostly these are advertisements which do nothing other than cause an annoyance. To block out all pop-ups add the following line to...

Service Pack 2 for Windows 2000 adds native compatibility mode support to the OS, letting you install or run programs by "tricking" them into thinking that the OS is either NT or 95. Here is an excerpt from the Microsoft Knowledge Base article found at: http://support.microsoft.com/support...

You can run chmod on a file so that it only has the "read" property - but this will still not prevent a process running as root from changing its contents. (Nor will it prevent you from forcing a change.) However, there IS a way of making it truly read only, so long as the filesystem is ex...

This problem may occur when you have a multi boot situation between different instances of NT/2000, each of which gives the workstation the same computer name, but also each of which use a different SID. Only one of the OSs will have the correct trust relationship to the domain, as stored by the con...

This can happen when certain macro code is executed which disables the right click functionality. To re-enable it, edit the registry as follows: From this key: Excel 97: HKey_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Excel\Microsoft Excel Excel 2000: HKey_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\...

To restart a Windows 95 machine from the command line you can issue the following command:

start c:\windows\system\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindowsexec

(This doesn't work with NT.)

Q: Searching through the newsgroups, I found some discussion between you and others about trying to get Netscape to launch excel. It seems that I have the same problem. My UNIX host has a spreadsheet type xls and my PC running Netscape can't figure out how to launch Excel on the file. I've done the ...

In regedt32 go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters.

Add a DWORD key "TcpWindowSize" and give it a decimal value of 65535 (or hex FFFF). Reboot.

In newer version of sendmail you can modify the MaxMessageSize setting in the sendmail.cf file.

In older versions, that do not support this, you can add the following to the file:

Ob/5000000

The above will limit the message size to 5M.

# /bin/bash
adduser -p `date '+%S%W%H%a'` $1

Credited to Paul Thurrow. Removing Windows components after installation: A technology showcase As I noted in my review of Windows 2000 professional Beta 3, one of the more annoying new "features" in this product is the removal of a custom install option, which allows the user to pick and ...

Make the following registry changes: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg\PersistentHandler] @="{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg\ShellEx{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpeg\Persisten...

Thanks to Glen Campbell Q: I had a technical question regarding cisco equipment. I have a router{2610} that a former isp left and has never picked up and I would like to play with it. However I don't know the username or password. Do you know if there is a default username and password? There appear...