Show 'HTTP://' prefix in Firefox 7

..freshly upgraded to Firefox 7, but apparently the 'HTTP://' is gone in the addressbar. If you're looking under 'Options' to get it activated again, you're wrong. So quickly the steps to re-enable it again:

  • open firefox
  • browse to 'about:config'
  • search for 'browser.urlbar.trimURLs'
  • change the value ...
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Windows 2008 Server password reset

..Stupid password restrictions on Windows machines.. ;-) Just booted up a test Windows ADS Server in a VM where I couldn't remember the password. The 12345 didn't work because I couldn't set it to that initially... :-p
Anyway, a quick research revealed that there's a nice 'hook ...

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Disable warnings in 'The Bat!'

This time it was The Bat! bothering me :-D
I've received an email and I wanted to open the attachment. Of course it was named like 'spreadsheet_2010.10.19.xls', so double extensions, which The Bat! doesn't like. So while browsing through the options in the program, I ...

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Cygwin, package installation

It's about time for a new post.. ;-)
Recently I've installed cygwin again on one of my Windows boxes, because I was in need of some essential *nix tools, especially netcat, whois, nslookup, dig, awk, grep etc.
Well, now that I ended up installing new apps every few minutes ...

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Handle Exchange 2007 mailbox-limits using Powershell and Customattribute15 (ADS)

In my last job, I was responsible for our exchange-environment (Exchange 2007), where we've had a lot of users with HUGE mailboxes. They kept requesting new/adjusted limits all the time, so instead of 'wasting' our 'engineers-time' for all the requests, we've came up with a pretty nice ...

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Subnetscanner as a windows-batchscript

I've just got a request for a simple subnetscanner, under the condition, that nothing can be installed on the target machine. So I've quickly put a Windows batchscript together which does the job. It's not as fast as NMAP & co, but you can be 99% sure that ...

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