By donmc, 18 September, 2009

How to get busted with aplomb: just break into someones house, steal some stuff, and leave the victim's PC logged into your facebook page so they know how to find you!

By donmc, 14 September, 2009
Topic

The Cisco Unified CME system supports features you would come to expect from a time-division multiplexing (TDM) PBX or key system. These features can be divided into four categories: system, phone, trunk, and voice mail features. The major features in each category are included in the following list (current as of CME Version 4.3):

By donmc, 2 September, 2009

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/154170,multitasking-doesnt-work-say-resea…
Quote: After testing about 100 Stanford students, the scientists concluded that chronic media multitaskers have difficulty focusing and are not able to ignore irrelevant information.

By donmc, 28 August, 2009
Topic

Here is the solution to this one:

  1. Open the Control Panel
  2. Click System
  3. Click the Advanced tab
  4. Click Settings in the Performance section
  5. Check the “Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop” checkbox
  6. Click OK until you close the windows
  7. Then, right click somewhere on the desktop. Select "Arrange Icons By" and disable "Lock Web Items on Desktop"
By donmc, 18 August, 2009

Resetting your Drupal admin password

To directly reset your password, log into phpMyAdmin and execute the following mySQL statement:

UPDATE users SET pass = md5('newpassword') WHERE uid = 1;

To drop/create a new database:

# mysql -u donmc -p
mysql>
mysql>
mysql> drop database my_database_name;
mysql> create database my_database_name;
mysql> grant ALL on my_database_name.* to myusername@localhost;
mysql> use my_database_name;
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> exit;
#

By donmc, 31 July, 2009

They must be doing something right...
Firefox has been downloaded more than 1 billion times as of 11am on July 31st 2009.
http://www.onebillionplusyou.com/

By donmc, 10 July, 2009

I told you so.
Google had to eventually threaten the Microsoft OS stranglehold. They could not in all conscience not do so. See their announcement here for some details of this very key development:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html