This is running on Ubuntu 12.04, using the most recent versions as of 2013-02-02.

Install git:

$ wget http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.8.1.2.tar.gz
$ tar xf git-1.8.1.2.tar.gz
$ cd git-1.8.1.2/
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev
$ make …

I thought it would be interesting to use Lenny Zeltser's excellent REMnux distribution to solve this puzzleposted by ForensicKB. I'll admit that I saw the solution before solving it, but since I don't have a copy of EnCase lying around, I wanted to use some free tools to accomplish …

Having panels which update quickly without flickering requires double-buffering. To accomplish this in C#, you'll have to derive from the standard Panel class as shown below, and then replace the declaration and instantiation of the panel with your new class.

using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    public class DoubleBufferedPanel : Panel …

So here's the scenario. I was looking to have the a panel with exact dimensions on a C# form (700x400). I wanted even and default spacing around the panel on the form. I figured out the default spacing was 12, so I set the size of the form to 724x424 …

Although definitely not the only step to stopping malicious email, not displaying HTML or rich text in messages goes a long way. Here's the summary of where the settings are located:

Outlook 2003

Tools menu, Options, Preferences tab, E-mail area, E-mail Options, Message Handling area.

Outlook 2007

Tools menu, Trust …

Here are a couple useful PHP commands that you can run on your server to get useful information.

This one gives basic information about the PHP installation, which can be used for troubleshooting or just verifying that PHP is running.

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

This one tells you the name of the …

I just stumbled across the MySQL GUI Tools Bundle which is very useful for managing a MySQL databases. In my opinion, it's much easier than using phpMyAdmin, which I had been doing previously. The only problem is that using it "requires" the machine the database is on (my web server …

I had quite a bit of fun trying to get Apache to serve the admin files for my Django install. Here are the settings I used to finally get it to work. Note that the site is in a subdirectory of my domain. I'm not currently hosting any other media …

Reading some php code, you might get confused about the difference betweeen =, ==, and === (this single, double, and triple equal signs). Here's a quick summary.

= (Assignment) Just like in (pretty much) every other programming language.

== (Equality) Returns true if the two variables have the same value.

=== (Identity) Returns true if the …

I got this annoying error message this morning when trying to open Outlook 2007.

Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.

I tried logging out and back in, which didn't help. Neither did a restart. A quick Google search revealed the following solution:

1. Click Start, then Run …