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Forum member Cerberus posted a tutorial on how to rig up an always-on USB charging port for your PC using a spare USB port, a resistor, and a few pieces of wire.
It requires a small bit of soldering know-how, but anyone who has used an iron at least one time can pull this off. It is a great option for someone looking to reduce clutter while saving energy, since it enables and USB device to charge while your PC is turned off without the need for yet another wall wart.
I am happy to announce the first public release of my MailBin application, which works in conjunction with Gmail and Newsbin to enable individuals to remotely queue up Usenet downloads by emailing themselves .nzb files.
The concept is simple, utilizing the ability to send oneself a message at Gmail.com with characters appended to your usual email address. The MailBin application, along with Newsbin takes care of the rest. Read more about the program here, and join the forum discussion here.
It is Alpha software in that it has not been broadly tested, but I am pretty sure of its capabilities. Please pass along any bug reports, suggestions, etc you might have.
Thanks to Morehpperliter for the initial idea.
I like having the ability to remotely access my PC at home while I am away in case I want to grab an important file I have left there, or if I need to finish something I didn’t quite get around to. For ages I simply set port forwarding on my router allowing port 3389 to be directed to my desktop PC, which let me connect to my computer using Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). While this was not the most secure method of doing so, it worked, and I did not want to change how I did things.That’s not to say that RDP is not secure – it does use 128 bit RC4 according to Microsoft. However, with man-in-the-middle attacks being relatively easy to carry out, I thought there had to be a better (and more secure) way of connecting to my oh so precious home network.
In the end, I decided that I could route my RDP sessions through an SSH tunnel and sleep a little easier at night. If you follow the directions below, you can too…
1)Â Â Â Download CopSSH, Putty and Puttygen.
2)Â Â Â Execute the CopSSH installer, click Next to proceed, then click I agree to accept the license agreement.
Continue reading ‘Securing Windows Remote Desktop with CopSSH’
I saw a recent article on Lifehacker about cleanly shutting down and restarting explorer.exe in Windows Vista. I gave it a try in XP just for the sake of it, and not surprisingly, it did not work.
I did however find a way to do it in Windows XP that I wanted to share with others.
You can see the full process after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Safely Shutting Down and Restarting explorer.exe in Windows XP’
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of a working Promise RAID controller, it was the age of a failed Promise RAID controller…
My motherboard has two on board Sata RAID controllers - one Promise FastTrack 378 controller and one Intel ICH5 controller. They are far from enterprise-grade, but they get the job done…most of the time. I began having problems with the ICH5 controller awhile back, where the controller would suddenly “lose” one or both of the drives in my RAID0 array. Obviously this is a problem, but I stuck with that controller until I couldn’t take it any more.
I finally decided to give up on the Intel controller, so I started shopping around for a new SATA II controller card, capable of RAID0. I narrowed down my options and settled on a Promise FastTrack TX2300 card, figuring that since my current Promise controller had a good track record, adding another Promise card would be great.
That assumption couldn’t have been further from the truth. Let’s just say the card didn’t live up to its “Promise”…
Continue reading ‘A Tale of Two RAID Controllers’
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