• iPhone,  Kerio,  Mac OS X Server,  Microsoft Exchange Server,  Network Infrastructure

    Using a + in an email address

    January 27, 2005

    If you take an email address like my iCloud account, it’s krypted@me.com. If I take the username and add a + at the end I can then type some characters and put it all in front of the @ and domain name then the mail will still come to me. So, let’s say I use it to create an AppleID for an APNS certificate. That would be: krypted+apns@mac.com Or iTunes: krypted+itunes@mac.com Or iPhone1 (or these days iPad1): krypted+ipad1@mac.com The only gotcha is that occasionally you’ll run into some field on a webpage that has input validation for non alpha-numeric characters. Shouldn’t be the case, but it comes up from time…

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  • Uncategorized

    X Traffic

    January 25, 2005

    X traffic takes up a lot of network bandwidth and is insecure.  SSH offers compression making it slightly more efficient and security…

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  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Unix

    The basics of cron

    January 24, 2005

     The cron command has officially been deprecated in Mac OS X, but still functions if called upon. cron starts a process that executes commands at specified dates and times. Regularly scheduled commands can be specified according to instructions found in the crontab files in the directory /var/spool/cron/crontabs. Users can submit their own crontab files via the crontab command.  Crontab copies the specified file or standard input if no file is specified, into a directory that holds all users’ crontabs.  crontab options: The -e option edits a copy of the current users’ crontab file or creates an empty file to edit if crontab does not exist. The-r option removes a user’s…

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  • sites

    CafePress

    January 23, 2005

    Have a logo you want to put on shirts but don’t have enough to have them printed up?  Well, give cafepress a shot.   www.cafepress.com

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  • Windows XP

    Windows: Script to Reset SID

    January 22, 2005

    Script Code ============================================ @echo off Echo Save the batch file “AU_Clean_SID.cmd”. This batch file will do the following: Echo 1.    Stops the wuauserv service Echo 2.    Deletes the AccountDomainSid registry key (if it exists) Echo 3.    Deletes the PingID registry key (if it exists) Echo 4.    Deletes the SusClientId registry key (if it exists) Echo 5.    Restarts the wuauserv service Echo 6.    Resets the Authorization Cookie Echo 7.    More information on http://msmvps.com/Athif Pause @echo on net stop wuauserv REG DELETE “HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdate” /v AccountDomainSid /f REG DELETE “HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdate” /v PingID /f REG DELETE “HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdate” /v SusClientId /f net start wuauserv wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow Pause

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