JacobyTech

Check out this site if you’re interested in placing some home automation tools, such as light switches, water valves, window / door sensors, or maybe things like home servers or home security cameras. Most things can be accessed from anywhere in the world, plus the added bonus of sharing certain devices out to friends and […]

Think again. http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20002317-245.html “And you think Apple is taking it seriously too now? Maiffret: Oh yeah. It’s even a little scarier with them because they try to market themselves as more secure than the PC, that you don’t have to worry about viruses, etc. Anytime there’s been a hacking contest, within a few hours someone’s […]

Very handy, also interesting to see the difference between today’s “hi-def” and the future’s 4k standard.  Take a look at the pixel differences!  That’ll make you hate yourself for spending all that money on a 1080P monitor when 4k starts coming out! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_resolutions

Setting up free certificates: http://www.h-online.com/security/features/SSL-for-free-step-by-step-906862.html https://www.startssl.com/

I was working on a computer with a bunch of viruses / malware on it (it had no A/V previously) and a bunch of things were messed up. No firewall, no windows updates, network stack wouldn’t start, etc. etc. One of the things on my list was to get windows updates to work again, and […]

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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/939ab4aa-deab-4e6c-8883-5c7e8389737d

If you have a windows XP installation CD / DVD, and you’d like to know if it’s OEM, Retail, or Volume Licensed, take a look here to find out: http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/setuppini.html I’ll try to hunt down the same info for Windows Vista, and 7 as well. Another resource: http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Product_IDs

In the registry go to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\explorer\Advanced\Folder and then there is a sub key Hidden with 3 subkeys, NOHIDDEN, NOHIDORSYS, SHOWALL. The default value for all these 3 is (0), and the checked values are (2), (0), (1) respectively. The next subkey of Folder is HideFileExt, and the checked, unchecked, and default values are (1), […]

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