If you are a medium sized corporate user with an in-house mail system then it should be safe to assume there are good backup regimes in place. (But do check...) But for smaller workgroups, cooperatives and the like, the 'norm' is often to use Outlook connecting directly to an ISP, which works fine until a PC crashes and burns and several [...] Read more
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Setting up Filezilla server for secure FTP - FTPS
Published on Sep 18, 2013
FTP is one of the original Internet protocols and dates from those days when getting something working was the desired result and security, if thought of at all, came a poor second. One result of this is that everything about FTP is insecure - the username and password are sent in plain text, as is the payload of the transfer. A few minutes with [...] Read more
Fat PSTs and their solution
Published on Sep 13, 2013
I was recently migrating a bunch of legal chaps to new PCs and had the usual problem of Outlook users who had vast, disorganized PSTs. One user had 11Gb of data in her PST.. So how to split it up into sensible 'chucks' - or by years, and with what tool? Exmerge would not really help... I tried a few VB scripts but then found MailScavator [...] Read more
NSSM - or the Non Sucking Service Manager to give it its full name...
Published on Sep 13, 2013
NSSM takes the idea of serviceany [an old MS utility] and makes it work properly. So if you want to run SpamAssassin, or ClamD anti virus as services, then NSSM is what you need. It's free, stable and just works. Get it at http://nssm.cc/
MS Exchange 2003 - Office 2013 and Internet Explorer 10 - nothing works anymore!
Published on Sep 3, 2013
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Added link to PDF password remover
Published on Jul 10, 2013
Why do so many companies try to stop users - that is, their (potential) customers - from printing or copying chunks of text from their manuals and sales brochures? Anyway, a very neat, fast and free on-lone solution can be found at: http://www.ensode.net/pdf-crack.jsf
Recording streaming video
Published on Feb 16, 2013
Added details of a new tool to achieve this... see: http://www.imcuk.net/index.php?id=recording-streaming-video