A friend of mine had his MSN account hacked and it was hacked good, thus the security question was obviously changed afterwards đ so there was no way for him to regain access. It was surprisingly hard but I finally found a link where you can rapport such problems and get assistance; https://support.live.com/eform.aspx?productKey=wlidvalidation&ct=eformcs&scrx=1
(Screenshot is from an older version than the current 4.9) Yet another free partitioning CD (why in the world pay for Partition Magic), this CD will let you boot from it and resize your partitions and much more (free). http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/files/
So you are visiting this company that is filtering their Internet traffic, and you for some reason can’t reach this site you just have to visit RIGHT NOW, no problem here’s a list of proxy tools/sites to bypass such security measures; http://geniushackers.com/blog/2008/01/09/another-list-of-proxy-sites-to-open-blocked-sites/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/04/free-web-proxy-list/Â (older list but many still work) or try these previous posts; https://readmydamnblog.com/?p=1202Â (Utility to […]
As primary a Windows admin I get a bit discouraged by products like Nagios – although it’s definitely a cool product installing it seem complex and with little knowledge on Linux maintaining it even more so. So are there any Windows (free) alternatives out there? Yes, and propably more than one, however is there any open source/free versions […]
Do you remember the song by U2 – “I still haven’t found what I am looking for”, are you forever lost when trying to keep order in your digital archive, can’t you ever find the document/picture/pdf/spreadsheet you are looking for – well then this may be of interest to you; Benubird, benubird is a document […]
Another gadget I stumbled across and found interesting is the “Parent/child alarm”; Helix Child Alert Parent and Child alert is designed to reduce the chances of a child wandering away, unnoticed in crowded locations. The two part alarm will alert the parent when the child moves more than 5-10m from their side. Also includes a […]
Now this is somewhat clever, I have not yet tried it so I can’t say for sure how good it works but the concept is clever. You agree with some of your friends that you will use each other as backup-hubs, install Buddy Backupand then define each other as trusted friends, then your data is […]
I actually did not know Paragon had a free edition of their partition manager software, but it turns out they do. Now I am sure it is crippled just enough to be useless but I may be wrong, so you may want to give it a spin (heck it’s free so it won’t cost you […]
If you have an original game cd/dvd and want to know which copyprotection was used on it – maybe to find a NOCD or whatnot – I sometimes even find this interesting from an intellectual point of view, then this utility might just assist you in identifying what copyprotection that is keeping you from playing “Battlefield […]
I just had a few hours of cold-sweat experience with my Windows 7 installation; I had to remove my machine from the domain and reinsert it into a new domain with the same name. This ought to be straight forward, it however proved to be a nightmare đ No matter what I did the above […]