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Category: Tips and Tricks

  • Microsoft

XML Serialization Secrets in WCF

  • Posted on 2006-05-17
  • by Gerald Beuchelt

Well, I really do not have any big secrets to uncover, but I wanted to point you WCF developers to an extremely useful tool: sgen.exe. In itself the tool is quite handy, since you can pre-generate and compile serialization code…

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  • Interoperability

Dual Boot Windows Vista – Part 2

  • Posted on 2006-04-11
  • by Gerald Beuchelt

In an earlier article, I showed how to make a system dual-boot Windows Vista and Debian Linux through GRUB. This was fairly straightforward, even with the new boot loader (BCD) that ships with the latest Vista builds. All of that…

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  • Microsoft

A few more links on Vista’s BOOTMGR

  • Posted on 2006-04-11
  • by Gerald Beuchelt

Here is a help page from Microsoft on BCDEDIT.EXE. Note that you must run COMMAND.EXE as administrator, otherwise BCDEDIT.EXE is not in your search path and will not execute. Here is a discussion on how to use BCDEDIT in some…

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  • Interoperability

Windows Vista and RDP

  • Posted on 2006-04-06
  • by Gerald Beuchelt

Windows Vista introduces a new ‘Network Level Authentication’ mechanism to RDP. It will be intereting to find out what they are doing there exactly, but meanwhile you might want to be able to use your legacy RDP clients to access…

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  • Interoperability

Making Vista Build 5342 dual boot with Linux

  • Posted on 2006-04-06
  • by Gerald Beuchelt

Since Vista features the new boot loader system, multi-boot is not quite so trivial. There are various guides and FAQs on how to do XP/Vista dual boot (see e.g. here or here), but getting a GRUB based OS (such as…

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  • Tips and Tricks

TagUtil for Firefox

  • Posted on 2006-04-04
  • by Gerald Beuchelt

Here is a nice little tool for Firefox that helps in creating tags for blogs entries. It allows you to create master lists to choose your frequently used tags from. While it has a somewhat odd interface, it is still…

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  • Tips and Tricks

Restricting Access to Pages on MediaWiki

  • Posted on 2006-03-27
  • by Gerald Beuchelt

In order to limit access for specific pages on MediaWiki (e.g. for developing internal ideas etc.) you might find this add-on to MediaWiki interesting. It add a ‘restrict’ functionality to each article, similar to the ‘protect’ mechanism. Its access control…

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  • Security

Encrypting Drives Securely

  • Posted on 2006-03-23
  • by Gerald Beuchelt

I recently started to play around with a useful tool called TrueCrypt. It allows to create an encrypted diskfile, that can be mounted on most major operating systems by giving the proper password. This comes in REALLY handy, when you…

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  • Microsoft

Getting PHP to work under IIS

  • Posted on 2006-03-21
  • by Gerald Beuchelt

I’ve spent almost half a night getting PHP to install on my Windows 2003 Server under IIS. Granted: towards the end I was simply too tired to recognize that I DID change a crucial setting (cgi.force_redirect = 0), but forgot…

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  • Tips and Tricks

VMWare tools for Solaris

  • Posted on 2006-03-18
  • by Gerald Beuchelt

Uncovered by Pat Patterson: VMware Tools for Solaris 10 host OS This will allow you to get all the fancy integration for Solaris 10, that until now only Windows and Linux host OSes can offer. Tags: VMWare, Solaris

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