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How-To

Windows 8, minus metro UI

Who would have known that I’d love the Windows 7 start menu.  Well I want it back and with the following tweak you can re-enable the classic start menu that we all have come to love. To get back the old start menu, open regedit, goto HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer change value of RPEnabled from “1” to “0” […]

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News

VLC Media Player 2.0 FINAL

VideoLAN Organization has announced the release of VLC 2.0 FINAL. VLC is a popular cross-platform, open-source video player capable of handling most media formats, and version 2.0 represents the first landmark update since its first official release in June 2009. The most radical changes in VLC 2.0 will be found on the Mac platform, with support […]

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How-To Software

Mac OS X: Changing or resetting an account password

Yes!  I am playing with a MAC.  I didn’t know how to change my password and now I do. Resetting a user’s password Log in with an administrator account.  From the Apple menu choose System Preferences. From the View menu choose Accounts. Click the lock button if it appears locked; enter the administrator password. Select the username whose password you want […]

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Personal Software

VLC

There is no real need to post this because of how awesome it is. By now most of you know this, but for those of you who do not… It plays  almost anything!   I use it both in Windows and Ubuntu. Simple to install, simple to use. In Ubuntu sudo apt-get install vlc   In […]

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Personal

Joss Whedon, Serenity: Those Left Behind

“Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don’t care, I’m still free You can’t take the sky from me Take me out to the black Tell them I ain’t comin’ back Burn the land and boil the sea You can’t take the sky from me There’s no place I […]

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Technical

One or more intermediate certificates in the certificate chain are missing

Error:  One or more intermediate certificates in the certificate chain are missing. This is because Windows does not have enough information to verify this certificate. When upgrading a Server 2003 IIS 6 web site to 2008 IIS7 the certificate exported from IIS6  you may have issues causing windows to give you the ‘Windows does not […]