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Internet Browser: Safari 5
Jun 10th
Some days ago I read a tweet or a post somewhere and today the update of Safari 5 is available on my MacOS.
This update contains new features including:
- Safari Reader: Click on the new Reader icon to view articles on the web in a single, clutter-free page.
- Improved Performance: Safari 5 executes JavaScript up to 25% faster than Safari 4. Better page caching and DNS prefetching speed up browsing.
- Bing Search Option: New Bing search option for Safari’s Search Field, in addition to Google and Yahoo!.
- Improved HTML5 support: Safari supports over a dozen new HTML5 features, including Geolocation, full screen for HTML5 video, closed captions for HTML5 video, new sectioning elements (article, aside, footer, header, hgroup, nav and section), HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource, WebSocket, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, and HTML5 Ruby.
- Safari Developer Tools: A new Timeline Panel in the Web Inspector shows how Safari interacts with a website and identifies areas for optimization. New keyboard shortcuts make it faster to switch between panels.
Other improvements include:
- Smarter Address Field: The Smart Address Field can now match text against the titles of webpages in History and Bookmarks, as well as any part of their URL.
- Tabs Setting: Automatically open new webpages in tabs instead of in separate windows.
- Hardware Acceleration for Windows: Use the power of the computer’s graphics processor to smoothly display media and effects on PC as well as Mac.
- Search History with Date: A new date indicator in Full History Search shows when webpages were viewed.
- Top Sites/History Button: Switch easily between Top Sites and Full History Search with a new button that appears at the top of each view.
- Private Browsing Icon: A “Private” icon appears in the Smart Address Field when Private Browsing is on. Click on the icon to turn off Private Browsing.
- DNS Prefetching: Safari looks up the addresses of links on webpages and can load those pages faster.
- Improved Page Caching: Safari can add additional types of webpages to the cache so they load quickly.
- XSS Auditor: Safari can filter potentially malicious scripts used in cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
- Improved JavaScript Support: Safari allows web applications that use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to run faster and more securely.
- For more information about fixes that improve performance, stability and compatibility, please see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4134
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
If you read the news in the last couple months than you would understand why Bing is added I additional search engine. I still think that google is nr1 search engine and Bing doing it’s best. Anyway the update is installed and I am loving it.
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Loading ...Software Deployment: Windows XP East Asian languages
Dec 16th
The following script will help you to silently install the East Asian languages for Windows XP. This checkbox can be easy set during the winnt.sif installation or when the image is syspreped. What happens if you did not set this option and you need to change this on more than 500+ Windows XP clients.
When checking the “Regional and Language Options” in Control Panel the checkbox is not set.
Create file c:\temp\east_asian.txt
[RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup="7","8","9","10"
Create file c:\temp\east_asian.cmd
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\ /v SourcePath /d \\server\share\windows_xp\ /f %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe shell32,Control_RunDLL intl.cpl,/s:\\server\share\windows_xp\i386",/f:"C:\temp\east_asian.txt
Make sure you have the Windows XP source files on the network as the installation will need them. In 5 minutes the East Asian language files were installed.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sharepoint: SharePoint Designer Workflow screencasts
Nov 8th
Today I watched the 5 part screencasts series presented by Bjørn’s from the USP Journal. If you never worked with creating custom workflows with Sharepoint Designer before than this is a good start. These series helped me build some business logic for a internal Sharepoint project I am doing right now.
Part1
Part2
Part3
Part4
Part5
For more information check out this website here.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Windows: Microsoft Security Essentials free virusscanner
Oct 24th
Well this is something to consider if you don’t have any virus protection so far. You should and Microsoft offers it now for free. I will install it on my Windows 7 systems.
Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.
Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.
Click here to download your copy.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Windows 2003: Windows could not start?
Jul 14th
Last night we lost our Openfiler SAN with a “kernel panic” stop message and all virtual machines located on the VMWare ESX cluster were frozen. After I found the problem and I reboot the SAN box; I than encountered another problem on one of our development SQL server. Just after the POST phase a black screen was shown and boot process stopped. I did not create any screenshot of this window but it was something like:
Windows Server could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
Last time I had this error I was not able to fix this problem without reinstalling the OS. No recent backup of this VM and I run out of my options to get this VM up and running again.
What I did than:
- Shutdown the VM
- Shutdown another working VM
- Mount the virtual disk of the failed Windows installation on the second VM and boot.
- After Windows was boot of the second vm I assigned a disk letter of the failed Windows instllation.
I went to E:\Windows\System32\config and got the following error message.
\Windows\System32\config is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
I than right clicked on the volume; went to properties and opened tools tab. I clicked “check now” to repair the volume. After 9% I got warning volume and the process stopped. I was lost again. But than I remembered one tool which I tried than.
chkdsk e: /f
After the process and check & fix were finished I was able to access all folders. I than shutdown the VM disconnected the virtual disk and boot the development SQL server. After 5 minutes the machine was up and running. This saved me at least couple of days of work to restore the configuration and make everything working.
Windows showed me the warning ” Windows-Registery Hive Recovered”. I was again being able to logon on the server and make sure proper backup was in place now. Same can be done with physical disk but make sure you install the HDD into another machine!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Cisco: How to reset password of a switch?
Jul 14th
Did you ever needed to login into a Cisco Switch and change the configuration? The responsible person is on vacation or out of the office; you forgot the password of the switch or whatever; you just want to login and do your job to make the network configuration working.
Some months ago I had same problem with a network segment with a failing network configuration and I needed to act quickly in this production area. I found a spare switch but was not able to login.
See the screenshots below and instruction how to reset the password while keeping the VLAN and switch configuration.
Power on the switch; connect a console cable to it and follow the steps below:
CRTL-C to stop the process. You are now at “switch:”
Type flash_init + enter; type load_helper + enter to load the basic IOS.
Type rename flash:config.text flash:config.backup to rename current configuration file to backup. Type boot to reload the switch.
Choose no for the initial configuration.
Rename flash:config.backup config.text and copy flash:config.text system:running-config
You are done now and can add or change the usernames or enable secret.
Thanks to this I will able to quickly act and in 15 minutes make the spare switch working.
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