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Rubber hose attacks!

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Awesome! Hot linked from xkcd. Also, checkout wikipedia for more details on what the Russians do and how public key cryptography could get you killed or landed in jail (if you live in the uk).

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Common translation errors in Moodle language packs

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If you have ever had to deal with language packs you will know how much of a pain they can be. I regularly interact with 9 Moodle language packs and I don’t like doing that much. For some reason, can’t

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The command prompt has been disabled by your administrator?

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I came across an old enough post on Didier’s blog about Group policies that have disabled cmd.exe from running. Didier mentions a few ways to get cmd.exe to run. The suggestion I like the most is to find the DisableCMD string in cmd.exe

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Deleting specific emails from the postfix mail queue

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A week ago a development database server lost power, which is usually no big deal only that I have some reporting scripts that run every 5 minutes for each database. When these databases became unavailable they (the scripts) like to

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