Recently, I got a Macbook Pro. It was high time to migrate away from the Windows XP running on my trusty but old Lenovo Thinkpad T60. I have to say it was interesting moving from Windows XP to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Below are some of the tips…
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Microsoft has just released a free virus and spyware protection software for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 called Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). The nice thing about this news is that MSE is just one program that you can run for total protection from viruses, spyware, and rootkits (a…
Leave a CommentUpdate: While NoScript is a powerful tool, it is also a very complicated tool and hard to use. After I had used it for while, I realized that the safety it gave me was not worth the hassle of manually setting permissions for everything; not to mention that many useful…
Leave a CommentRecently, I wanted to look into writing a Flash client which uses the STOMP protocol to talk to an Apache ActiveMQ Server. I found this great blog, Flex chat application that uses Apache ActiveMQ and STOMP, that talks about creating a STOMP-based chat client using Flex. I tried to follow…
2 CommentsRecently, I automated the daily build and deployment of a web application to a Tomcat server. My automated build made calls to stop and restart the Tomcat service using a Tomcat service script. Unfortunately, I found that Tomcat sometimes will hang when quitting. As a result, after several days, I…
1 CommentI was working on a little project that involved having a javascript client talk to a PHP backend using the JSON format. Of course, the first thing I did was to google for a simple example of this. Unfortunately, the info was scattered across several sites so it required some…
1 CommentThere is no official subversion binary distribution for SUSE Linux. However, it is pretty easy to compile subversion on your SUSE Linux server. If you have an older version of subversion which you wish to remove before installing the latest, do the following cleanup: Run Yast2, go to Software->Software Management,…
3 CommentsWhen using Yast2 to install or modify my SUSE Linux server, it will prompt me to insert the original installation CDs. This is bothersome if my SUSE Linux server is not easy to access physically. To avoid having to deal with CDs, we can copy the contents of the installation…
Leave a CommentUpdate 2: Yahoo Mail now supports IMAP for all accounts; whereas, POP3 access required Mail Plus accounts. The Yahoo IMAP server is “imap.mail.yahoo.com”. Yahoo IMAP uses the same port 993 and SSL authentication settings as Gmail IMAP does. Update: The instructions below are specific to Outlook 2003, but will work…
5 CommentsRecently, I had to move my Microsoft Outlook 2003 PST (Personal Store, I think) file to another machine so I had to learn a bit about how Outlook uses PST files. The PST file may contain your emails, contacts, notes, calendar events, and tasks. The instructions below will help you…
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