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And the award goes to… 11.11.2005

Inspired by the level of outright defiance (or stupidity, it’s hard to tell) that people seem to be exhibiting these days, I’ve decided that it’s time to institute a new weekly post: The Bluegator Brass Balls Award, or B3 Award. The award will go to an individual whose sheer brashness (or stupidity) in [...]

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Ignorance is bliss.

In our conversion process we utilize a lot of classes to try and minimize the amount of code we have. It also helps to hide some of the more trivial stuff.
But assumptions will kill you. The conversion code currently assumes that it can ALWAYS find and open our conversion database. Even if [...]

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Changing the Remote Desktop Listening Port for XP Pro

Read here to change the remote desktop listening port. The instructions are for XP Pro, but I think it’s near the same location for Terminal Services on Server 2000-2003.

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S-P-Y spells aggravation

To be specific, S-P-Y-W-A-R-E spells aggravation, at least it did. In my browsing yesterday I picked up a pretty nasty malware that none of my protection mechanisms was able to pick up. It embedded itself nicely in explorer and continued to launch lovely windows to ad sites about once every 5 minutes.
After messing [...]

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