How to: Not display last user name on Windows Logon Screen

Instructions:

1. Go to Run and type in Regedit
2. Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system
3. Key dontdisplaylastusername
4. Change value to 1
5. Restart the computer

1and1 Email Exchange Server Goes Down 5/8/2009 - POP, SMTP, Webmail Offline

UPDATE: MAIL SERVERS ARE BACK UP AS OF FRIDAY, MAY 8TH, 2009 11:00AM PST

1and1 Internet's email exchange servers are down as of Friday, May 8th, 2009 morning. We tried calling their technical support line, but their phone lines jammed up with other callers trying to call in for information. As a customer, it's frustrating not having updated information on the status of their service. Hey 1and1, how about using your own blog service to create a blog to update customers? Anyway, 1and1 provided good service for us in the past, so hopefully this doesn't happen again any time soon in the future.

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Everything you wanted to know about painting your Car

Great instructional videos by Overspray over at the H.A.M.B. forums:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=225633&showall=1

Basic of Basics on Hotrodders forum:

http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/basic-basics-how-do-i-paint-my-car-myself-44210.html

Automotive Paint FAQ by Bob Story:

http://members.tripod.com/~bobstory/faq.html

More tips:

http://markandcarol.us/paintacar.htm

Sata Videos:

http://www.sata-gmbh.com//Media/index.jsp

Air fittings for air supply:

http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/more-air-please-79058.html?s=cad6b79e8cb749a3c500aa2a05dff369

Spray Guns 101:

http://www.autobodypro.com/tektips/articles/spray_guns.htm

Great tips from D71:

http://www.autobody101.com/forums/about2608-0-asc-15.html

Spray Problemsolver:

http://paintersforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=53

Paint walkthrough:

http://www.a4mods.com/index.php?page=webcontent/pages/paint.html

Paint tips (cool tip from the site: for metallics, use marbles to agitate the paint):

http://www.wnyncrs.org/Top%20Coat.pdf

Cleanup tips:

http://www.hammerzone.com/archives/wood_finishing/technique/hvlp_spray/basic_1/spray_gun_adjustments.htm

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Fix: Slow updates in Ubuntu with a Sonicwall Firewall

While setting up a Ubuntu server, when we went to update, we were hit with painfully slow 4-kilobytes-per-second-updates. You know the feeling like when you're on freeway, but some slow cars just seem to block all the lanes. Yeah, ya feel us.

Turns out it was all in Sonicwall's Anti-spyware security services. The firewall was scanning every single bit sent through the network resulting in stomach wrenching slowness.

Solution:

Temporarily disable the Anti-spyware app for the IP of the host you're working on. If your host is 192.168.18.111, then add this IP to the exlusion list of your firewall and all should be fast again.

Quick tip:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-select-fastest-mirror-in-ubuntu.html
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How to: Get Vmware Server for FREE & Install to Ubuntu 8.04

This post was quoted from Ubuntu's Documentation:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Server

Ubuntu 8.04 (VMWare Server 2.0.0 Build 116503)

You can download it at http://www.vmware.com/go/getserver

1. Get a serial number (displayed at the download page link received by email as part of the registration process)
2. Download the tar.gz file
3. Install the build package

4. sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

5. Unzip

4. sudo ./vmware-install.pl

5. Follow the settings displayed at your screen and don't change default values if not necessary. Be sure to add your normal username as VMware Server administrator

6. Enter the serial number when prompted

7. Vmware2 has a web interface. Browse with Firefox to http://localhost:8222.

8. Log in with your normal username and password

Note: You can also access the web interface via SSL at https://localhost:8333. You will probably need to add this site to your SSL Exception sites on your browser.

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How to: Install Internet Explorer 6 without Internet

Today, I needed to install Adobe Acrobat 9 Lite, which requires IE6, on an offline Windows 2k machine. My catch 22 was that I had a machine without internet access and Microsoft does not let users, nor IT pros, fully download and install IE6. No IE 6 = no Acrobat for me. Luckily, there was a way around this, and by adding a few commands, we can have a fully distributable IE6 install.

1. Go to your internet enabled machine
2. Download the IE6 install file to c:\
3. Type in Run (KEEP THE QUOTES)

4. "c:\ie6setup.exe" /c:"ie6wzd.exe /d /s:""#E"

5. Choose your OS
6. Specify a path to download your files
7. Copy to USB or CD and install on your target machine

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How to: Schedule Windows XP Shut Down FREE using Task Scheduler

From Microsoft's Website (edited):

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814761

To work around this problem, use Task Scheduler to schedule the computer to shut down at a specific time:

1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click Scheduled Tasks.
3. Double-click Add Scheduled Task. The Scheduled Task Wizard starts.
4. Click Next.
5. Under Click the program you want Windows to run, click Browse.
6. In the Select Program to Schedule dialog box, locate the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder, locate and click the Shutdown.exe file, and then click Open.
7. Under Perform this task, specify a name for the task and how frequently you want this task to run, and then click Next.
8. Under Select the time and day you want this task to start, specify a start time and date for the task, and then click Next.
9. Type the user name and password to run this task under, and then click Next.
10. Click to select the Open advanced properties for this task when I click Finishcheck box, and then click Finish.
11. Click the Task tab.
12. In the Run box, specify any additional parameters that you want to use with Shutdown.exe. To shutdown add the "-s" parameter without quotes. For more options, go into command prompt and type: shutdown.exe /h
13. Click OK.

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