Technology related solutions, tips, tricks, and other interesting topics
Knowing how to manually send an email using TELNET rather than a traditional email application such as Microsoft Outlook is sometimes useful for troubleshooting or testing for an open mail server relay. In order to send email via TELNET you will need 3 things: An active internet connection The address of a mail server capable [...]
A lot of computer systems and applications use standard MD5 hash algorithms to store passwords. Using a straight unsalted MD5 hash of a password in order to store it securely used to be acceptable a few years ago but a recent technique similar to rainbow tables allows someone to recover the password by comparing the [...]
These instructions are for the version of Word that comes with Microsoft Office XP or Office 2003. I will explain 3 different techniques so hopefully one of the three techniques will work for you. Technique 1 1. Switch to the HTML code view of the Word document by using Microsoft Script Editor. You can launch [...]
Type “about:cache” without the quotes in the URL address field of Firefox and press ENTER to load that address. Firefox will then display a clickable list of the entries in the cache.
This blog is about technology related topics. It will primarily contain problems and solutions to IT problems that I encounter on a day-to-day basis. In addition interesting things I come across either on or off the internet will be posted here as well. I will also include step-by-step tutorials to common tasks people may need to do with their computers.