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Open source, Java-based dedupe #

/misc | Dec 29, 2007

The Definitive Guide to Disabling Windows Vista Services #

/windows | Dec 29, 2007

Byte-level dedupe #

/windows | Dec 23, 2007

Leopard OS X 10.5 - Startup Keys Don't Work #

If your Mac does not obey startup commands (like Command+C to boot from the optical drive), try using your Apple Remote instead:

1. Turn on the Mac while pressing Menu on the remote
2. A list of bootable volumes will appear
3. Select the desired volume using Forward and Back on the remote
4. When the desired volume is highlighted, press Play on the remote

This tip came in handy when a MacBook refused to obey Command+C, Command+T (target disk mode), and Command+S (single user mode).

/mac | Dec 17, 2007

Ron Paul - Tea Party '07 - Donate Now #

• Tea Party '07
• Ron Paul Radio
• Live chat
• Ron Paul Graphs
• DONATE NOW (God knows we can't afford not to)

/misc | Dec 16, 2007

Business #

/misc | Dec 11, 2007

Delete all files except... #

While importing a My Pictures directory from Windows XP into iPhoto via drag-and-drop, the process would crash after several thousand photos. I suspected iPhoto was choking on a non-JPG file, so I recursively deleted all other files in the directory:

• Find all files but JPGs:
  find . \( \! -iname "*\.jpg" \! -iname "*\.jpeg" -type f \) -print
• Find all files but JPGs, and list them on one line:
  find . \( \! -iname "*\.jpg" \! -iname "*\.jpeg" -type f \) -print0
• Delete all files but JPGs:
  find . \( \! -iname "*\.jpg" \! -iname "*\.jpeg" -type f \) -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

Sure enough, after cleaning the directory of extraneous filetypes, the import worked flawlessly. Use the above commands at your own risk - unintended data loss is likely. As always: backup, backup, backup. (Thanks to Todd for his post, from which the above commands were largely lifted.)

/mac | Nov 15, 2007

Delete empty directories recursively #

A tiny Windows app for this purpose was mentioned a few years ago, but here are the Linux and OS X commands to recursively delete empty directories below the current one (use at your own risk, as the slightest mistake can erase all of your data):

• Linux: find -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
• OS X: find ./ -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;

/nix | Nov 07, 2007

CrashPlan - Insanely cool offsite backup for Windows, Mac, and Linux #

/misc | Nov 05, 2007

Popcorn email client update #

/windows | Oct 30, 2007

Install Leopard on older, unsupported G4 Macs #

UPDATE: Install and Optimize Leopard on Unsupported Macs

/mac | Oct 27, 2007

What if I had invested $1,000 in EBAY ten years ago? #

/misc | Oct 25, 2007

Send To SFTP with WinSCP #

/windows | Oct 22, 2007

Giving and Getting #

"What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever." -Ethel Percy Andrus

"Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

/misc | Oct 08, 2007

History #

"History... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." - Edward Gibbon

"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world." - Karl Popper

"Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!" - Thomas Carlyle

/misc | Oct 07, 2007

Simple QuickTime MOV cropping via Goldberg 2.5 #

UPDATE: See also Cropping a video with Handbrake, which actually covers cropping instead of trimming.

/mac | Sep 26, 2007

Ad Blocking - YES!! #

AdBlock & Filterset.G were mentioned in this space over a year ago, but it is only recently that sites like Why Firefox is Blocked have appeared. Their basic contention: "Accessing the content while blocking the ads, therefore would be no less than stealing." To which Tim Swanson rightly replies:

There is nothing ethically or morally wrong with an ad-blocker. It is no different than using any other technology to filter language or explicit content. No one is being harmed nor has property been destroyed or stolen (the owner was not deprived of their property).

Plain and simple: if you do not want to pay for the bandwidth and hosting charges, don't put material online. Just because you are trying to make a living does not mean anyone should partake in your business model. After all, should everyone that visits your site be required to click on one of the ads?

Furthermore, if you can't survive off an ad-based revenue model, try something else - like subscriptions - or perhaps find a different day job.

Hear, hear! Besides which, the Internet circa 1994 was far superior to today's Disney/CNN/Fox/Web 2.0/spammy/ads-everywhere glop anyway. If blocking ads means seeing this mess disappear, so much the better. (By the way, where are the calls to block Lynx? Those freeloaders have been ad-free for years!)

UPDATE: Over a quindecennium later, this HN comment by kibwen warrants inclusion:

It is not stealing from radio stations to change the station when ads come on. It is not stealing from TV channels to go get a drink when ads come on. There is no moral compunction to watch ads, from anyone, anywhere. Stop trying to normalize advertising, which is to say, stop trying to normalize the enshittification of the human mind.

Meanwhile, a web browser is a user agent running on my machine. Youtube's content is a guest on my hardware. Once it's on my machine, I have the moral right to do whatever I please with it. If Google doesn't want to serve it to me, then it has the right to prevent me from accessing their server, such as in exchange for payment. But again, advertising is not payment, it's just corporate-sanctioned, socially-acceptable brainwashing.

/misc | Sep 16, 2007

VistaPE - Like BartPE, but for (you guessed it) Vista #

/windows | Sep 08, 2007

Printing from OS X to a Windows Workgroup printer #

• PrintFab (shareware) - Billed as a "printer driver suite with RIP functionality", Printfab allows network printing to many otherwise unsupported devices. Supported printers
• Gutenprint (free and open source) - "High quality drivers for Canon, Epson, Lexmark, Sony, Olympus, and PCL printers." Like PrintFab, it supports accessing many printers over a Windows Workgroup. Supported printers

/mac | Sep 02, 2007

Impenetrable, unentered, unassailed #

Willoughby now estimated - and events would prove him to be correct - that they would be met by over four thousand Japanese troops. MacArthur handed back the papers, turned to several anxious officers awaiting his decision, and said, in his calm way, "We shall continue as planned, gentlemen." After a pause he added that he intended to land with the troops. Krueger was alarmed. In his memoirs he writes: "He had expressly forbidden me to accompany our assault loadings and yet now he promised to do so himself. I argued that it was unnecessary and unwise to expose himself in this fashion and that it would be a calamity if anything happened to him. He listened to me attentively and thanked me, but added, 'I have to go.' He had made up his mind on the subject - and that was that."

The General spent most of that night alone at the Phoenix rail, gazing out at the black, phosphorescent sea. At dawn, when they dropped anchor in Hyane Harbor off Los Negros, they were greeted by a bombardment from Japanese shore batteries. A Life correspondent who was present wrote: "One salvo went over the ship. The second fell short. Men on the deck, expecting that the third might well be on the target, were preparing to get behind anything handy when it hit. MacArthur began to take an increased interest in the matter at that point, standing up straight on the bridge to survey the scene while chatting with his staff. Fortunately, his survey included the obliteration of the Jap gun positions by the cruiser, which had got the range in the nick of time."

Six hours later he went ashore in a pouring rain. The fighting was heavy. GIs of the 1st Cavalry Division wearing steel helmets and camouflaged battle dress were lying prone, but the General, conspicuous in his trench coat and cap, awarded a Distinguished Service Cross to the man who had led the first wave and then, to the amazement of his party, strolled casually inland. Anguished aides tried to persuade him not to expose himself. One senior officer warned him that he was in "very intimate danger." MacArthur lit up his corncob pipe, waved out the match, and explained that he wanted to get "a sense of the situation." A lieutenant touched him on the sleeve, pointed at a path, and said, "Excuse me, sir, but we killed a Jap sniper in there just a few minutes ago." The General nodded approvingly. "Fine," he said. "That's the best thing to do with them." Then he walked in that direction. Stumbling over the cadavers of two enemy soldiers who had been slain a few minutes earlier - their bodies were still warm - he continued on, merely remarking, "That`s the way I like to see them." A GI called, "You are beyond the perimeter, sir!" MacArthur courteously thanked him for the information, but he didn't break his stride until he came to a wounded American infantryman. Crouching down beside him, he took the man's hand and asked, "Son, what happened?"

John Gunther wrote: "He stalks a battlefront like a man hardly human, not only arrogantly but lazily."

...

The most dangerous spot on the island was the airstrip. Kenney had told the General that it could become "the most important piece of real estate in the theater." Now he wished he hadn't, because MacArthur was heading straight for it. From the number of corpses later counted there, officers estimated that eight hundred pairs of Japanese eyes were watching as, Kenney remembers, "General MacArthur wandered up and down the strip . . . digging into the coral surfacing to see how good it was." A correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post who had joined his entourage wrote: "With his yellow trench coat swinging out behind and smoke trailing from his pipe, MacArthur paced off the puddled coral runway himself. At first the width, and then down the length, far outside our lines." A dumbfounded cavalryman said afterward, "Why they didn't kill him, I don`t know."

/misc | Sep 01, 2007

Portable (and open source) apps for OS X #

/mac | Aug 26, 2007

Slicehost: Best hosting on the planet #

/nix | Aug 22, 2007

Changing mouse orientation (especially useful for gamers or CAD users) #

• invert the y axis
• invert the x axis
• invert both the x and y axes
• rotate the axes

/windows | Aug 17, 2007

Command line feed readers #

• newsbeuter is an RSS feed reader for the text console. It is designed to run Unix-like operating systems such as Linux.
• Olive is a console-based newsreader, written in Perl and using Curses::UI as its toolkit. The big difference between Olive and other newsreaders is that it takes a time-centric as opposed to site-centric view of newsfeeds. Olive shows you news stories from all your feeds at once, arranged in a continuum.
• Raggle is a console RSS aggregator, written in Ruby. Features include customizable keybindings, basic HTML rendering, HTTP proxy support, OPML import/export, themes, and more.
• rawdog is an RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur. Written in Python, it uses Mark Pilgrim's feed parser to read RSS 0.9, 1.0, 2.0, CDF and Atom feeds. It runs from cron, collects articles from a number of feeds, and generates a static HTML page listing the newest articles in date order.
• Snownews - Text mode RSS newsreader for Linux and Unix.
• TheYoke is an ultra-simple, polite RSS aggregator designed for use on the UNIX command line.

• I have made a custom style for Vienna that hides images, embedded objects, iframes, annoying "digg it" buttons, etc., and approximates the look of this blog (screenshot | download). Combined with Vienna's Smart Folder feature (to browse the latest stories from all feeds at once), it makes my daily read much faster.
• Canto is an open source Atom/RSS feed reader for the console written in Python.
• Online feed readers for web servers

/nix | Aug 17, 2007

Amazon.com free shipping search engine #

/misc | Aug 16, 2007

txt2tags - A clean and simple document generator #

• HTML
• XHTML
• SGML
• LaTeX
• Lout
• Man page
• MoinMoin
• MagicPoint
• PageMaker

/nix | Aug 15, 2007

Concurrent Terminal Services (RDP) sessions under Windows XP #

Normally, Windows XP allows only a single remote login via RDP (which in turn logs out the current local user). However, there are several methods to circumvent this restriction:

Free

• Concurrent Remote Desktop Sessions in Windows XP SP2

• Windows XP Multiuser Remote Desktop

• Enabling Multiple Remote Desktop Sessions in Windows XP Professional and Media Center Edition 2005

• Terminal Server Patch (rather than a tutorial, this is a packaged installer to accomplish basically the same thing)

Fee

• XP Unlimited turns your Windows System into a full blown Terminal Server, without any limit. Multiple, unlimited number of concurrent remote desktop sessions. Includes integrated web server for access via browser.

• WinConnect Server XP enables a Windows Small Business Server 2003 or Windows XP computer to allow up to 21 remote desktop sessions.

As always, use at your own risk (and joy). Contact Microsoft for help navigating their licensing terms.

Update

Remote Desktop: Enable concurrent interactive and remote sessions (without hack workarounds) via RDP shadowing.

/windows | Aug 08, 2007

Excellent, Free Terminal Services Book #

This book is not an administrator's guide. Rather, it's written for IT consultants, system engineers, and architects who must plan, design, implement, and optimize Windows 2003-based Terminal Server systems. It's filled with real-world, proven strategies created specifically for Windows Server 2003. See how some of the world's largest companies are using pure Terminal Server 2003 environments.

/windows | Aug 08, 2007

LiteIcon and AppCleaner - freeware replacements for CandyBar 2 and AppZapper #

/mac | Jul 05, 2007

Accessing KeePass / KeePassX databases on your Palm OS device #

/palm | Jun 25, 2007

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. #

/misc | Jun 20, 2007

WakeOnLan #

/mac | Jun 10, 2007

CocoaWget - GNU Wget with a GUI for OS X #

/mac | Jun 02, 2007

Bean #

/mac | May 31, 2007

Sysinterals apps : The pre-p0wnage years #

/windows | May 27, 2007

Dell 1815dn: OS X printer and network scanner drivers #

/misc | May 24, 2007

Dell Laser Printer 1815dn (and a note on network scanning / PIN requirement) #

"In addition to printing, scanning to and faxing from a PC over a network, the multitalented 1815dn also works as a standalone fax machine and copier. The machine is a digital sender too, letting you scan and e-mail without a PC. Most AIOs with digital sending that I've seen up to now have been aimed primarily at large offices. In particular, they didn't work with most ISPs and required you to have your own corporate-style e-mail server to connect to. By contrast, the 1815dn operates with standard ISPs, as I confirmed by testing it with the Verizon DSL home Internet service. An even nicer surprise was the 1815dn's ability to turn faxes into e-mails. It accomplishes this bit of magic by converting the fax image into either a PDF or TIFF file and then sending it off as an e-mail attachment. Better still, you can forward incoming faxes, outgoing faxes, or both."

"Dell's Multifunction Laser Printer 1815dn is based around a fast laser printer. It can make black-and-white prints and copies, and can scan, but not print, in colour. It has a standard network interface and a duplexer that allows it to print on both sides of a sheet of paper. Its 50-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) is useful for making unattended copies or faxes of long documents... The 1815dn is a fast, well-specified MFP that's easy to set up. It uses only a single consumable and has low running costs, making it an ideal multifunction peripheral for a moderately busy office."

The 1815dn makes a great alternative to HP's Digital Senders, which cost many times more and do far less.

For those who plan on using the 1815dn's network scanning function: it is not mentioned anywhere (not even online at the moment), but you can bypass the need for a PIN by entering 0000 when prompted during the software installation. Doing so will return the following message: "You just entered '0000' for a PIN. Network Scanner will not ask for a PIN when you login to the scanner."

/misc | May 23, 2007

Google / Dell junkware getting worse #

/windows | May 23, 2007

WiTopia personalVPN #

The search for an alternative service lead me to WiTopia's personalVPN service. It is simple to setup, has low latency, and runs under OS X, Linux, and Windows 2000/XP/Vista. Here's the process under OS X:

0. Read the FAQ to make sure you understand the service.
1. Sign up for an account ($40/year)
2. Your custom installer arrives via email in a few minutes. (List of what was installed on my system.) Intel-based Mac users need to jump through the additional hoop of updating Tunnelblick (WiTopia needs to fix this).
3. You'll need to specify one or more DNS servers for your desired network adapters (as explained in the welcome email), and you may need to adjust your SMTP settings.
4. After rebooting, the Tunnelblick icon appears in the menu bar:
   
   Click and choose "Connect".
5. The Tunnelblick icon changes to show that you are connected:
   .
   That's it! You can of course verify the encryption with a tool like Wireshark, and your new IP address via sites like IP Chicken.

I asked WiTopia about their policy regarding customer privacy, logging, etc. They replied:

"Privacy is our business so we take it very seriously. We don't monitor or keep logs of where anyone goes. We do run tests to prevent spamming, etc. If it is reported to us by a respected authority that a user is participating in criminal activity, or other activities that could harm WiTopia, or its customers, we turn that over to our abuse team and they likely turn your account off."

/misc | May 20, 2007

Javascript progress bar for tracking goal completion #

UPDATE: Ben Oakes kindly sent in his OS X-themed modification.

/misc | May 20, 2007

Three image viewer apps for OS X #

• Magic Lantern 1.0.1 [120k] {S} Image viewer
• ViewIt Lite 1.0.2 [156k] Image viewer that supports most popular image formats: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD and more.
• JView 2.1.1 [372k] Simple image viewer that supports multiple image formats

/mac | May 20, 2007

Apple Safe Sleep Sucks #

Why did Apple not include an option to disable Safe Sleep (aka Hibernation) in Energy Saver? As it is, closing the lid of your new MacBook or MacBook Pro and moving it too quickly can destroy the hard drive. I first learned of this unpleasant state of affairs thanks to random restarts after closing the MacBook Pro's lid. Here's how to disable Safe Sleep, and make your MacBook sleep instantly (and safely!):

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage

UPDATE: This is no longer sufficient to disable Safe Sleep on most modern Mac models; see this post for more information. I had to run this third command on a Mid 2012 MacBook Pro to stop it from hibernating after four hours:

sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 0

/mac | May 15, 2007

Klaus Knopper (creator of Knoppix) request #

"I'm working on a Linux-based network boot console that can automatically restore operating system partitions with multicasted archive from a server. For this, I have tried to keep all programs as small as possible, but currently, I'm already at 12MB (compressed), which takes a lot of time to decompress on an old computer (about 8 seconds, goal is 4 seconds). I'm still searching for a way to get the Qt-based embedded GUI smaller. But C++ apps seem to need a lot of bloated libraries. Maybe you have an idea how to get this smaller."

/nix | May 11, 2007

Knoppix - A great thing just keeps getting greater. #

• Wide RAID support (Why is Windows so far behind here?)
• Automatic mounting of external drives, even after booting
• Transparent read/write access for NTFS volumes
• This one's been around forever, but I love it: all drives are mounted as read-only, but can easily be made writable from the context (right click) menu.

/nix | May 09, 2007

Make a simple and sturdy CD sleeve from letter-sized paper #

UPDATE: Fernando Aversa kindly sent instructions for yet another folding method.

/misc | May 09, 2007

Japanese-English dictionary for Palm OS #

• Search by translation, kana, text entry, handwriting recognition, or multiradical method.
• Support for hi-res and low-res Palm devices
• Tested with Palm OS 3.3 and higher
• External memory card support
• Japanese Palm OS integration
• Optional kanji information and stroke order diagrams
• Support for Windows Mobile devices with StyleTap

/palm | May 06, 2007

Two newly-listed Palm apps: Downloader and Snap #

• Snap 0.2.5 [11k] Screenshot app for PalmOS 5. Saves images as BMP files on expansion card.  📺
• Downloader 1.1 [62k] File downloader (similar to wget or curl). Options include: I (display images in list), L (display links in list), and C (force download to card - useful for viewing source code, as Blazer does not have a "view source" function).  📺 💾 🌎

/palm | May 06, 2007

Automatic disk imaging and file versioning device for Windows XP #

/windows | May 04, 2007

Quick cleaning of HTML files for archiving #

/windows | Apr 26, 2007

Mozy for Mac OS X #

• Completely automated
• Secure, encrypting your data in transist (128-bit SSL) and on their servers (448-bit Blowfish)
• Free up to 2GB, or $4.95/month for unlimited storage
• The coolest Internet service I've ever seen

/mac | Apr 25, 2007

Freeware network monitoring software #

/windows | Apr 13, 2007

Common decency #

/misc | Apr 09, 2007

21 free, tiny icon sets #

/misc | Apr 09, 2007

SSH and SSHFS Guide for OS X #

/mac | Apr 06, 2007

Highly recommended Dell rep #

/misc | Mar 21, 2007

Four things OS X can learn from Windows 95 #

1. In Spotlight's search result window, files should be able to be deleted, copied, moved, renamed, etc.
2. Spotlight should offer an "In Folder" or "Location" column rather than forcing the user to press the tiny "i" symbol for each result.
3. The Trash should have two more columns: "Date Deleted" and "Original Location".
4. The context menu in the Trash should offer a "Restore" option to return files to their original location. This is especially useful in putting back the 20 or 30 files from 10 different locations that Adobe asked you to remove and then realized they shouldn't have.

/mac | Mar 21, 2007

OS X: Slow startup, update_prebindin, and Application Enhancer (APE) #

/mac | Mar 20, 2007

Pablo Software Solutions - Tiny, open source Windows apps #

/windows | Mar 14, 2007

Thank God: Ron Paul Launches Presidential Bid #

/misc | Mar 12, 2007

Why, in my day... and we LIKED it! #

One of my favorite memes on Slashdot is the "Why, in my day..." (along the lines of Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen). Here is a taste:

Old guy #1: Yes, sir, a six-bit character set was all we had, and we liked it!

Old guy #2: You had a character-set? Damn you were lucky! Back in MY day all we had was a bunch of rocks, and we communicated by banging the rocks together.

Old guy #3: Rocks!! Do you know what we would have done for rocks! A good honest rock could get you places. No Sir. All we had was mud. Mud and straw. We used to pile the mud up into segments to make registers and then use the straw to represent numbers. We didn't have any of your holier than thou binary formats. No Sir. We had unary and we liked it.

Old guy #1: In my day, we made our CPUs out of crystals! Our motherboard was a clay tablet. And we hammered the gold into thin sheets, baked it in a dung-fired oven, and we LIKED it.

Old guy #2: Luxury. Back when I was a young'en, we didn't have any o' those fancy crystals, ovens or precious metals. We 'ad to make due with a bunch o' stones, manipulating the electrons by hand!

Old guy #1: The TRUE geek makes his own from a brick of silver. In my day we had to make thermal paste by grinding it down with stones.

Old guy #2: Silver bricks? You was lucky! In my day we had mine our own ore and smelt it down. Then our dad would assay it, and if it wasn't 99% pure, all we got for breakfast was CompUSA Silver Thermal Grease!

Old guy #3: You had HEAVY ELEMENTS? In my day, the loose clouds of interstellar gas hadn't coalesced into star systems yet. All we had were hydrogen atoms and maybe a trace of helium around Christmas!

Old guy #4: You had loose clouds of interstellar gas. *LUXURY* In my day we had nothing but the vacuum and had to wait for a universe to pop into existence before we could even begin to think about the existence of energy and matter. Kids today ....

/misc | Feb 25, 2007

Cobian Backup is now open source! #

/windows | Feb 22, 2007

TinyApps.Org for sale - a mere $695,412.00 ;-) #

/misc | Feb 13, 2007

Batch file renaming and text replacing in OS X #

/mac | Jan 29, 2007

Allegro! - Catch that public radio show you missed (or want to hear again) #

/misc | Jan 28, 2007

FreshBooks - The best online invoicing and time tracking service for consultants #

/misc | Jan 23, 2007

The happiness of your life depends on... #

/misc | Jan 23, 2007

SoundRec - record voice memos on your Treo or other Palm-based device #

SoundRec v1.051 [24k] {S} Voice memo recorder. One button recording, save or export to SD card, more.  📺 💾

/palm | Jan 19, 2007

Portable Python #

/windows | Jan 15, 2007

At last! Mount SSH in the Finder! #

Thomas Stromberg has a good overview of using MacFUSE and SSHFS, but I needed to make a few changes before it worked for me:

1. Download the binary: fuse-binaries-0.1.0b006.tar.bz2
2. Install: $ sudo tar -C / -jxvpf fuse-binaries-0.1.0b006.tar.bz2
3. Attempting to run sshfs returned the error "fuse: failed to exec mount program: No such file or directory", since /usr/local/bin is not in Tiger's default PATH. To remedy this:
   $ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
   Alternatively, you could include it in /etc/profile
4. Run: $ sshfs username@host:/some/remote/directory /some/local/mount/point -o ping_diskarb,volname=some_volume_name,reconnect

That's it! The remote server is now accessible via the Finder:

/mac | Jan 14, 2007

Disable Hibernation in Vista and delete hiberfil.sys #

/windows | Jan 01, 2007

Cannot access file shares from Vista #

1. Start > Run > secpol.msc (BTW, "Run" is missing from the Start menu in Vista by default. You can add it by right clicking on the Start button, choosing Properties, then Customize, etc, or just use Win key + R to launch it. You can also use the "Start Search" box just like "Run" if you prefer.)
2. Local Policies > Security Options > Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level
3. Change "Send NTLMv2 response only" to "Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated"

/windows | Jan 01, 2007

The Businessman & The Fisherman #

One day a rich businessman was surprised to find a fisherman lazily smoking a pipe and lying on the riverbank beside his boat.

"Why aren't you out fishing?" said the businessman.

"Because I caught enough fish for one day," said the fisherman.

"Why don't you catch some more?"

"What would I do with them?"

"Earn more money. With that you could buy a motor for your boat so you could go into deeper waters and catch more fish. Then you would have enough money to buy nets. These would bring you more fish and more money. Soon you would have enough money to own two boats, maybe even a fleet of boats. Then you would be a rich man like me."

"What would I do then?"

"Then you could really enjoy life."

"What do you think I am doing right now?"

From Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart, edited by Christina Feldman and Jack Kornfield

/misc | Jan 01, 2007

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