Computing
Sawed off USB key
WTF? Here’s a cool project I found that uses one of those slimline USB keys and a USB cable to make a cool and unique USB drive that you hopefully won’t lose. There’s no real point to doing this other than to kill some time customizing your computer gear. It certainly look unique. Here’s the […]
No windows button? How to lock XP
A common way to lock your computer (assuming you are running XP) is to hit the Windows + L key simultaneously. But what if you don’t have a Windows key on your keyboard? There are a couple of other ways to do it: My choice is to create a shortcut on your desktop as you […]
Vista TCPIP has reached the connection limit error
Running P2P applications in Vista and ever see this message coming up? In your event viewer, the exact wording is ‘TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts’. Microsoft has implemented a change in the TCP/IP stack since XP SP2 to limit the number of ‘half-open’ (incomplete/syn packets) […]
Maxtor Hard Drive Jumper settings
I hate having to pull a hard drive out of a case to check what the jumper settings are for Master, Slave etc. Not knowing the exact model of this Maxtor one I came across today, I though I’d ask my friend Google. I found a page with most (if not all) of the Maxtor […]
PuTTY with Tabs?
My terminal emulation program of choice is PuTTY. It’s a small, simple but very functional piece of software. My only gripe with it has been that it doesn’t have a facility for multiple sessions or tabs – like Secure CRT for example. But today I found something that does the job. It’s call the PuTTY […]