November 20th, 2007

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Build your own burrito battery

Up until now, the best way to MacGyver a battery has been to stick a copper wire and a galvanized nail into a lemon (or an apple, or a potato, or…). Fruit or vegetable batteries produce a respectable voltage (around a volt) but only a tiny amount of current- not enough to light a flashlight [...]

Written by senese on November 20th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Preapring Windows PE to Boot from a USB Thumb Drive

These steps will take you through preparing a USB ram drive (thumb drive, pen drive, or how ever you care to refer to it) so that you may use it to boot your Windows PE image without the need of a hard drive (or bootable CD/DVD). These steps assume you have already generated your Windows [...]

Written by Jason on November 20th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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You even have to watch out for your placeholder bitmaps

During the betas of Windows Vista,
the final set of sample logon pictures had yet to be determined,
so a bunch of placeholder bitmaps were created.
These placeholders consisted of the letters FPO in a box. FPO is a standard term in desktop publishing Read More……(read more)

Written by The Old New Thing : History on November 20th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Google and Yahoo Make Cool Tools

Is it hard to be a hacker? How do I become a hacker? I want to learn more about hacking! Those are the things that I often hear or see on forums. Somebody asked me the other day if I know how to hack a site and whether it’s hard or not. I’m no hacker, [...]

Written by Jason on November 20th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate build is live. Microsoft is hammering away at the third and final service pack for Windows XP, and is making consistent headway in the matter. Truth be told, since the 2004 availability of XP SP2, and after the numerous delays of SP3 across 2006 and 2007, Service Pack [...]

Written by Jason on November 20th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Windows SteadyState v2.5 Beta

If you have ever tried out the Shared Computer Toolkit - or the newer Windows SteadyState toolkit, you probably know that Windows Vista has not been supported so far… But now it’s here - go get it:Windows SteadyState 2.5 Betahttp://www.microsoft.com/…

Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on November 20th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Play Around with Windows Vista Boot Screens

With Windows Vista, Microsoft has delivered an evolution in terms of user experience. Still, as the operating system suffers a decent amount of customization, improvements on the Redmond company’s original design are inevitable. And one of the aspects of Vista that could manage with a tad extra eye candy is the boot screen. Now on [...]

Written by Jason on November 20th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Jeremy Moskowitz in RunAs Radio

Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes from RunAs Radio talks to my good friend Jeremy Moskowitz about Group Policy - who would have guessed, right :-)Check it out here: http://www.runasradio.com/default.aspx?showNum=32

Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on November 20th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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My WindowSecurity.com articles…

Hi,This is a list of my articles on www.windowsecurity.com for reference - if you haven’t read them yet, please do so!Group Policy related changes in Windows Server 2008 (Part 1: What are Starter GPOs?)This article series deals with the new Group Polic…

Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on November 20th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Vista Adoption Far From a Done Deal

Days after a researcher predicted a coming upswing in IT shops’ Windows Vista adoption, a second survey draws markedly different conclusions.

Written by WinPlanet Windows Software News on November 20th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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