More years ago than I care to think about, IP addresses were handed out to companies on an indiscriminant basis. As the popularity of the Internet increased, IP addresses soon grew to be a scarce commodity. Internet service providers began to strictly limit the number of IP addresses that they would lease to companies. This [...]
In this article I will walk you through the Advanced TCP/IP settings dialog and its relevant tabs, so that you can better understand what each option is used for and how to configure it. Windows 2003 comes with a number of new features for TCP/IP, including support for IP Version 6, automatically determining the Interface [...]
This is just a note to remind myself the process of installing PHP,MySql and PHPMyAdmin on IIS6 and Windows Server 2003. If it is of any use to you, that will be great. There are many ways to run php and mysql stack on windows, if you are from a background of linux, or as [...]
A few years back I wrote a simple tutorial on how to install and configure PHP5 with IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 in five easy steps. Back then things were not as straight forward as they turned out to be when I tried it again today on a different server setup. The following worked like [...]
sda1: Windows Vista encrypted with TrueCrypt sda2: Ubuntu Hardy Heron /boot partition (not encrypted) sda3: Ubuntu Hardy Heron encrypted volume with LVM inside and / and swap partions within LVM (to save partitions used overall incase it gets over 5 partitions) sda4: Working on installing OSX Leopard on this partition currently. The steps I used [...]
I found this great article regarding using SelfSSL (Self Signed Certificates). The original document can be found here. Virtual Server can be found here. I followed the very easy instructions and it ran great. Here is a shorter version of the directions and the links to get everything you need: Download and install IIS 6.0 [...]
The Windows Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) exists on many Windows XP computers. However, when running, ICF can interfere with Internet connection sharing through a home network router. If such a conflict arises on your Windows XP computer, you might find that it cannot connect to the Internet through the router. Follow these instructions to disable [...]
Prevents Windows from running the programs you specify in this setting. If you enable this setting, users cannot run programs that you add to the list of disallowed applications. This setting only prevents users from running programs that are started by the Windows Explorer process. It does not prevent users from running programs, such as [...]
One of the many complaints users have of Windows is the slow start times they may experience. Some of the time, the slow start time is due to the number of programs that are loaded when Windows starts up. These programs will sometimes create an icon in the system tray near the time in the [...]
Setting up a wireless network entails only a few simple steps. Follow the instructions below to set up the router, configure it for strong wireless security, and connect your computers and portable devices to the network for wire-free browsing. Note: if your wireless router and other devices are capable of Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), you [...]
