Windows - Part 2

Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

How to flush the dns cache in windows

posted on January 7, 2009 in HowTo, Windows with 0 Comments

To flush the DNS cache in Windows, 1. Get into command prompt. ( start –> run –> cmd ) 2. Run the following command “ipconfig /flushdns” .

VLC media player 0.9.2

posted on September 18, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software, Windows with 1 Comment

The best media player in my book, VLC has a new version out. Like WL it’s my player of choice on both my Linux and Windows machines. Read the changelog while you download the installer.

Dropbox launched to public

posted on September 14, 2008 in Internet, Linux, Software, Windows with 4 Comments

Dropbox has finally come out of beta and is now available to everyone. With the public launched the company also introduced their open source Linux client which integrates seamlessly with nautilus and with a bit of work, KDE too. Get dropbox now. There is also a dedicated client for the iPhone. I guess with Dropbox [...]

Oracle E-Delivery

posted on September 12, 2008 in Linux, Software, Windows with 0 Comments

Your one stop Oracle software download site. OracleÃ‚Â® E-Delivery Oracle Entreprise Linux, Oracle VM, Oracle Database, Oracle Application, Oracle Database Cluster, the goes on. However, OTN provides more granule downloads. Those who know exactly what they need would prefer OTN compared to E-Delivery’s bundles.

support.microsoft.com not working behind Squid

posted on April 25, 2008 in HowTo, Internet, Windows with 12 Comments

Can you access support.microsoft.com? Chances are you can’t if you’re behind a squid proxy. Here’s the fix/workaround, Add the lines below into your squid.conf file. should be in /etc/squid/squid.conf. Restart squid and you should be good to go. #> vi /etc/squid/squid.conf add lines into /etc/squid.conf # Fix support.microsoft.com by removing Accept-Encoding header acl support.microsoft.com dstdomain [...]

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