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The discussion board software has just been changed from Discus to phpBB . The main reason I've done this is that I've become so used to using phpBB due to my involvement at MozillaZine , and would prefer to keep working with the same software. Please bear with me as I try to configure things to get...

Three Minutes With Jennifer Granick, Computer Lawyer Criminal defense attorney assesses antivirus laws, First Amendment rights of coding, and educating young hackers. Kim Zetter, PCWorld.com Thursday, November 16, 2000 Jennifer Granick, a San Francisco-based criminal defense attorney who since 1995 ...

One of the things that's almost as annoying as viruses themselves is virus hoaxes. As a systems administrator you can be inundated with email from well meaning people who keep saying, "Have you heard of this new virus that does all of these terrible things? Should I be worried about it?" O...

This is an interesting piece I got off of Usenet some time ago. It's, apparently, an interview with a programmer talking about why the programming language C++ is so much worse (not better) than C. I don't know if it's true or not, but there are enough (cynical) threads to make it possibly plausible...

This is because scheduled jobs will never overwrite used tapes, despite anything you tell the program to do in the Wizard. To fix this, edit the command line being used for the backup task in Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Schedule Tasks. At the end of the list of commands, add the following ...

The default sort order that RedHat uses changed in 7.x and later versions. The difference is shown as follows. Old: a b a c ab ac New: a b ab a c ac In the new sorting order, the spaces are not treated like other alphanumeric characters, but are "secondary". This is because the sort order ...

This scenario might come up when an application requires an older version of a DLL but XP's version management does not let the program downgrade the DLL kept in the System32 directory. Even if the older DLL is written to the application's installation directory it will be ignored in favour of the S...

Issue the following, either from a command shell or Start/Run:

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

At jobs will fail with this error reported in the event log, and checking properties of events listed under "Scheduled Tasks" will also produce this error. None of the events will fire properly when they are supposed to. This problem is caused by incorrect and/or corrupt cryptographic entr...

Default installs of RedHat 8.0 will show some garbled characters when viewing man pages. This is because, for some strange reason, RedHat decided to ship the OS using Unicode (UTF-8) locales which results in character mapping issue for any program (currently, that's almost all of them) that doesn't ...

You may encounter a problem with Windows XP's Control Panel listing TWO entries for "Network Connections". One is expandable, and the "hint" text reads "Connects to other computers, networks, and the Internet"; the other is not expandable and the "hint" text r...

In order to view a VNC server with IE, you need to specify the port its running on, but there are some additional things of which to make note. First, IE is very finicky about the format of the URL you need to use. In order to view a host on the default port, the URL must be "http://host.domain...

At least Windows 2000's version of Regedit will remember where you left off every time you run it, which can be quite annoying. To make Regedit forget where you were last and start with a default screen, run regedt32 and delete the value of the "LastKey" entry for the key: HKEY_Current_Use...

Windows 2000 and XP natively support a Copy To and Move To function in their filesystem handling context menus. (Right click on a file, select Copy To or Move To.) But this feature is not turned on by default. To enable it, create a file with a ".reg" extension containing the following: Wi...

Dual booting Redhat 7.2 and Windows XP Version 1.0 Contributed by John Oates - jpoates@eos.ncsu.edu This HOWTO specifically details how to create a dual boot system using Redhat Linux 7.2 and Windows XP with a NTFS file system using the GRUB boot loader. The Problem: The problem was stumbled upon af...