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Nov 12

Cygwin Deleted My Windows User Account

I wanted to run rsync on a Windows XP machine for some incremental backups of a server so I installed Cygwin. A few days later I decided to just setup a cron for rsync on my Mac at home so I uninstalled Cygwin. It started the uninstall ...

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Nov 02

Kensington Bluetooth USB Adapter Reviews

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I bought my first Bluetooth USB adapter from Best Buy last night so that I could sync up Outlook with my new Audiovox SMT5600. I got the Kensington Bluetooth USB Adapter only because it was all they had in the store. ...

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Oct 25

Map a Network Drive in Windows XP Pro

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If you have trouble mapping a network drive to another computer running Windows XP (i.e. - keeps throwing up the login prompt) try these steps. 1. Make sure you are connecting as a user that is in the administrators group on the remote machine. 2. Open Windows Explorer on the remote XP ...

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Aug 26

linux has a long way to go

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i tried to install the latest firefox browser on my machine. i was unpleasantly surprised to find that there was no quick and easy installer. instead i had to download the .gz file, unpack it, unpack the tar, and run the install script. i had to guess ...

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Jan 12

iTunes m4a files

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One of my mac using friends sent me a Missy Elliot remix today. When I tried to play it I realized it was a .m4a file type which wasn't associated with any application on my machine. Solution: Rename the file to .mp4 and the file plays great on Quicktime. Update: 02/25/2004 Boy do ...

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