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SOLVED: Resetting your Apple ID with cut-and-paste enabled

David A. Desrosiers — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:38:33 +0000

If you’re like me, you have lots of passwords. More than you can keep in your head. So, you use an app like KeePassX to hold and secure them all. I keep all of my passwords securely stored in Dropbox so they are accessible via my computers and my BlackBerry device (via the FileScout Dropbox [...] Related posts:

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SOLVED: Permanently setting “Hide Join/Part Messages” off in XChat

David A. Desrosiers — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:48:41 +0000

I’ve been using XChat since early year 2000 (loooong time BitchX user before that), and have found it somewhat annoying to have to manually and interactively disable the “Join/Part” messages in each IRC channel I am lurking on. To do that, you normally have to right-click each channel’s tab, go to Settings → Hide Join/Part [...] Related posts:

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HOWTO: Convert a VirtualBox image to a VMware Disk Image

David A. Desrosiers — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:44:47 +0000

While playing with the recent FreeDOS 1.1 release (only 17 years in the making), I found a need to convert a VirtualBox appliance image to a VMware disk image, but the steps weren’t clear or straightforward. Here’s what I did, in a nutshell: First, install VirtualBox. You can grab the install from the main VirtualBox [...] Related posts:

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At 1:38pm today, I lost my best friend, my buddy, Dart…

David A. Desrosiers — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:59:04 +0000

He’s not really lost, he’s still alive and well, preserved in my memories, thousands of photos and the remaining energy he left around my home. He’ll live on immortal as long as I don’t let those memories fade. Dart lived a happy, bountiful life with his bigger brother “Monk” taking care of him every day. [...] Related posts:

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HOWTO: Successfully Manage Your Email Like a Jedi

David A. Desrosiers — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:35:45 +0000

I receive a lot of email. A LOT, across at least five (5) personal email accounts and one (1) internal work email account. I see something along the lines of 300-500 emails every single day, of which about 80% require my personal attention or response. Without the ability to aggressively manage the volume of incoming [...] No related posts.

AT&T officially loses over 10 years of my business

David A. Desrosiers — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:39:28 +0000

I’ve been an AT&T customer for a very long time; over a decade of mobile phone use with their services, from my age’ing Nokia to my various Treo devices to several RIM BlackBerry phones. I’m currently on the biggest, baddest Enterprise “Unlimited” data, “Unlimited” texting plan they offer, including International Roaming and texting as well, [...] Related posts:

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My first two hours with the BlackBerry Playbook

David A. Desrosiers — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 03:28:17 +0000

I picked up a BlackBerry Playbook today to test, review and attempt to integrate it into my business workflow. After all the hype, pre-release videos and hundreds of reviews I’ve read prior to its launch this week, I knew this was going to be the right tablet device for me. Boy was I wrong. Here’s [...] Related posts:

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SOLVED: General Failure in sending the command to the application

David A. Desrosiers — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:58:09 +0000

This problem results from clicking on a URL, mailto or web link embedded inside an email in Outlook when you have Mozilla Firefox set as your default browser: If you’ve suffered from this problem using Outlook and Firefox on Windows, I have a fix! Launch regedit.exe (if you’re on Windows 7, right-click and “Run as [...] Related posts:

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HOWTO: Configure Tor + SASL + irc to connect to Freenode

David A. Desrosiers — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:39:05 +0000

I fought this problem on the train into the city today, because my MiFi‘s hostname was not correctly reversing to it’s given IP (verified by dig) and Freenode was denying the connection; it looked like this: Mar 22 06:51:41 * Looking up irc.freenode.net Mar 22 06:51:41 * Connecting to chat.freenode.net (86.65.39.15) port 6667... Mar 22 [...] Related posts:

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SOLVED: How to use Ctrl-Alt-F1 in VMware with Linux guests

David A. Desrosiers — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:56:13 +0000

If you’re like me, you probably use VMware Workstation (or VMware Player or VMware Fusion) quite a bit to test different aspects of other operating systems without having to break your host machine. I do development and testing on Linux, and need to ensure that the latest Linux distributions don’t break my code, or that [...] Related posts:

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SOLVED: How to put your NeatWorks data into Dropbox

David A. Desrosiers — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:02:24 +0000

As I use Dropbox more and more, I’m beginning to see that it really has a lot of value, and not just of the normal “file backup” variety. (see some of my other blog posts on Dropbox for some of my other ideas). I’ve been using NeatWorks NeatDesk for awhile, and began relying on it [...] Related posts:

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SOLVED: Moving your Outlook Address Book to another location

David A. Desrosiers — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:43:20 +0000

I’m definitely not a Windows user, nor a fan of Microsoft products, but I do have to use them for work and my personal calendaring with Cozi and my BlackBerry device, so I’m learning how to tweak and modify the core components to suit how I use them. In this case, I have a direct [...] Related posts:

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HOWTO: Browsing securely, using i2p with Firefox and FoxyProxy

David A. Desrosiers — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:42:33 +0000

I’ve been using i2p for a few things, including browsing and keeping my online research for new business ventures out of the prying eyes of my local Internet providers. Typically this means using a web browser of some sort to access content on the i2p networks (information that certain restrictive governments would prefer not be [...] Related posts:

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How American Express’ shady practices are making the economy WORSE

David A. Desrosiers — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:36:08 +0000

I have been an American Express customer for many years. I have an AMEX card that gives me points, miles and is honored by Delta Airlines for free flights for Seryn when she flies with me. My payment history on this card is what American Express themselves calls “stellar” in their own records. Every 3 [...] Related posts:

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Removing and Editing Windows “network” Passwords

David A. Desrosiers — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:01:26 +0000

My work machine constantly locks me out of my two corporate accounts there, depending on which resource or website I’m accessing while connected via the VPN. When I access the parent company’s web infrastructure, my ML corporate ID is locked out. When I access some of the ML sites and resources, my BAC corporate ID [...] Related posts:

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