Open and Extract winmail.dat Files

Published on September 5, 2011, by in linux, osx, windows.

How can I open winmail.dat or other .dat files? Outlook users sending HTML emails with attachments often reach other users as an odd winmail.dat file. (Thanks, Microsoft!) I’ll show you some tips on how to open that attachment! The perhaps easiest way to extract or view these sort of attachments is via the excellent website:

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flac – Audio Codec of Choice

Published on August 7, 2011, by in android, linux, osx, windows.

Similar to MP3 (but lossless), flac is an audio codec for your music. Instead of ripping to MP3, consider ripping to flac! flac stands for free lossless audio codec Why choose flac? flac is awesome for various reasons: Entire original source file is retained (excellent for CD archiving _with_ metatags!) Zero quality loss (lossless) Can

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Useful Windows Commands

Published on August 2, 2011, by in windows.

Here are some basic Windows commands that are good to know! Hit Windows key + R or use the Search box to type these commands. gpedit.msc Group Policy Editor services.msc Services devmgmt.msc Device Manager compmgmt.msc Computer Management This one is cool: Crack open a command prompt. (Windows key + R or Search box -> cmd

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scottlinux.com RSS feed url update

Published on July 3, 2011, by in android, linux, osx, other, sysadmin, windows.

The RSS url for scottlinux.com has been updated to simply: http://scottlinux.com/feed The previous somewhat weird url ‘http://scottlinux.com/?feed=rss2′ now redirects to the above correct one. However, you may have to update your RSS readers. Apologies and safe hacking,

Convert VDI to VMDK – VirtualBox to VMware

Published on June 24, 2011, by in linux, osx, windows.

To convert a VirtualBox vdi image to VMware, use the built-in VirtualBox command line utility VBoxManage. I’ll show you how! 1. First uninstall the VirtualBox Guest Additions from your VM to prepare for portability. 2. Next (if desired) copy the .vdi image file to a temp location as a backup. 3. Now determine the UUID

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How to Be Anonymous on the Web

Published on June 13, 2011, by in linux, osx, windows.

It is possible to use varying methods for bypassing web filters or just to have anonymity on the web. Note that these do not offer any security! Web site tunnel / proxy Be smart. These services still log information. For instance, Sarah Palin’s yahoo email ‘hacker’ was using ctunnel which handed over info to authorities

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