I was under the impression that everyone knew about sending a text message to Google to find phone numbers for businesses until I mentioned it to a very technical person I know and he responded with “What?!?!”.
So, for the record, you can send Google (466453) a text message with something like “Best Buy 75007″ and it will reply (very quickly) with Best Buy’s address and phone number. I have a Treo and it recognizes phone numbers in text messages so all I have to do is click on the text message and it asks if I want to dial the number. Very, very handy.
If texting isn’t your thing you can also call Google (800-466-4411) and use their voice prompts to achieve the same results.
Since this friend of mine didn’t know about this nifty feature he went looking to see what else Google can do for you and ran across this page:
http://www.google.com/sms
It turns out that Google offers a HUGE list of SMS services.
This is from http://dmiessler.com/study/tcpdump/
1. Basic communication // see the basics without many options
tcpdump -nS
2. Basic communication (very verbose) // see a good amount of traffic, with verbosity and no name help
tcpdump -nnvvS
3. A deeper look at the traffic // adds -X for payload but doesn’t grab any more of the packet
tcpdump -nnvvXS
4. Heavy packet viewing // the final “s” increases the snaplength, grabbing the whole packet
tcpdump -nnvvXSs 1514
I’m retarded and can never remember the difference between these two.
Affect = verb
Effect = noun
I have a few kids and, while they mean well, they can be rough on their movies. My two oldest each have a DVD player in their room, I have one in my room, there’s one three in the living room, and we have a portable one we take with us on car trips. Needless to say, there are lots of opportunities to watch movies.
Backing up a DVD takes time. First you launch this program which takes several minutes, then you come back and fire up another program which takes hours, then another that takes an hour or so, and on and on. Since I like to automate life as much as I can I wrote a script that makes backing up a DVD a lot less painful.
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http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/exchange2003/exchange2003_SMTP_Auth_Login.htm
I used the uuencode tools in Linux to get the Base64 version of my login and password.
# apt-get install sharutils
#
$ echo username | uuencode -m -
$ echo password | uuencode -m -
This is basically a reference post for Linux permissions. If you need a more in-depth write-up see the links at the bottom.
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Settings are applied in the following order:
Local > Site > Domain > OU
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I finally decided to research what registry key was used to hold all of Windows’ Folder Options settings.
Just to save myself time in the future when setting up new systems, I’m going to paste my settings here. I’ll keep this registry key on a server share so I can easily access it but I’m also pasting it here for documentation sakes:
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