Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Dad. Husband. Drummer. Learner of Things.

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Quick, easy way to add social networking capabilities to your website

Great little site/utility for creating social bookmarks such as Digg, Del.ici.ous, technorati, etc., all with a simple account (Free) and links to all the leading sites (like 40 of them). Faster, easier better than creating a bunch of links manually. Very slick really. Will take some time I’m sure to see some improved search engine …

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PHP install on IIS – get 404 error after

PHP – amateur hour on the installer and I went with the latest… Anyways, found the reason why PHP pages wouldn’t display (of any kind) and I was getting 404 errors instead. Turns out after installing PHP and having it configure IIS, it would use the 8.3 file name in the IIS, website, properties, Home …

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LCD vs Plasma. Oh Please, these are weak arguments for Plasma…

Still totally happy with my LCD (probably because it it 120mhz) and the comments about Plasma being cheaper are balogne from what I have seen, quite the opposite – at least here in Victoria. The LCD I bought was $1500 cheaper than the equivalent Plasma in the store – and the LCD looked 30% better …

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Web Email Cloaker

Acme Web Hosting :: Web Email Cloaker – Freeware Utility Generates Cloaked Email Links to Beat Spam-Spiders! Avoid your email address on websites getting harvested by those dirty spammers. Cloak it using this handy bit of software!

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Vista Networking got you down?

I don’t like when Microsoft makes decisions for me… Until I give a crap about IPV6 or if you need to reset your IP on Vista, do the following… Make sure IPV6 is not installed on your NIC, then… From the commandline: ipconfig /flushdns nbtstat -Rnbtstat -RR netsh int reset all netsh int ip reset …

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How to disable XEXCH50 in HELO responses in Exchange 2000 and 2003

Note, before you read this, you should have an SMTP edge server in front of your Exchange Server. These details are for those of you that don’t have an SMTP filter, can’t afford one or just can’t fix your SMTP blobbing issues any other way. I’ve had to do this twice recently, so thought I’d …

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Suggestions for optimizing Outlook

I’m fed up. Big Email, Outlook 2007 is brutal without its first service pack and tonnes of advice everywhere, none of which seems to be the same. So, I’m going to start building a list here (for myself mostly 😉 of the items that seem practical. I expect this list should grow… Problem #1: Downloading …

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itgroove Profiled in the Victoria “Business Examiner”

Always nice to hear nice things about the things you work hard at… Full Article – Victoria Business Examiner – October 2007 – itgroove Business Profile The text, in case you don’t want to open a PDF 🙂 Successful Companies Benefi t from itgroove’s Know-How Mark Sudul of Osler Systems Management Inc. devoted 25 percent …

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my preferred Windows Server Time sync configuration

At the moment, my preferred Windows Server Time sync configuration is simply to: (set an authoritative time source on a Windows Server – short and simple) net time /setsntp:pool.ntp.org (…or specify the whole set) net time /setsntp:.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 2.pool.ntp.org” (verify that time source is configured) net time /querysntp (Stop and Restart the Windows Time Service)NET …

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