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Password Tester from Microsoft

T.J. Mininday — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:39:18 +0000

I like when websites incorporate a password integrity checker when setting up an account with them. It gives you confidence, that your password won’t be hacked. That is of course, if you have a additional security measures for your ‘Forgot Your Password’ questions, such as what town were you born in?

I wanted to find out how secure my already created passwords are and doing a quick search, discovered a few interesting and innovative ones, like PasswordStrength.net and PasswordMeter.com, but neither seemed very accurate. My incredibly strong passwords, registered very weak on both.

Ironically, the easiest and most trustworthy I found was from Microsoft…It seems fairly accurate, and is a great tool to have, for future password integrity checking.

Password Checker from Microsoft

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Recover Permanently Deleted Outlook E-Mail – Microsoft Quick Tip

T.J. Mininday — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:08:28 +0000

So I ran across one of those, “Why the h*ll didn’t Microsoft put this in?” this morning and thought I would share it with all of you Microsoft Outlook users out there. It’s the ability of adding a ‘Recover Deleted Items’ to the Tools menu in Microsoft Outlook. What this allows you to do, is retrieve permanently deleted items and restoring them back to your stored e-mail.

It’s just a simple registry hack for Windows Vista or XP, and appears to work with Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.

1. Browse to your registry, going to Start>Run in XP, or simply going to Start in Vista and typing in ‘Regedit.

2. Browse to HKEY_Local_Machine and select Software, then Microsoft, then Exchange and finally client.

3. Within client, you will see ‘Options’. Create a New D Word by right clicking in the right-hand panel and selecting

3. You will find Microsoft there. Expand Microsoft.

4. Expand exchange and then client.

5. You will find Options there. Right click on Options, choose New and
click on D Word Value.

6. Rename the Dword value to ‘DumpsterAlwaysOn. (Case Sensitive)

7. Modify the DumpsterAlwaysOn by double-clicking on it and changing the value to 1.

8. Test the new feature by going to Outlook and choosing Tools and seeing if ‘Recover Deleted Items’ is there.

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Synergy – Free Software Based ‘KVM Switch’

T.J. Mininday — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:33:31 +0000

One the many things that comes along with putting together and setting up multiple servers, is the keyboard and mouse requirement. There are many situations when you can’t remote into a machine and you need to work at the server itself. The problem is, you don’t want dozens of different mice and keyboards lieing around to get tangled and to confuse you as to what is connected to what. That’s where our old friend the KVM switch comes in.

However instead of using multiple mice and keyboards, why not use the great open source product, called Synergy. Synergy allows you to share one, mouse and keyboard, with several different PCs, on several different monitors. So, this really doesn’t replace an entire KVM switch, as you’ll still need some type of viewing for the other PCs/Servers. The amazing part about it, is it’s cross platform compatibility. It works with Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS X. Here is a quote from Synergy on what it’s true power is:

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems.

And here is an amazing video, displaying its full potential:

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