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Running Azureus as a windows service revisited

This is a follow-up to my 2006 post. It’s a shame I’m not using Windows any more and I can’t figure this out for OS X, but the old post continues to get hits, so I thought I would neaten things up a bit!

I haven’t completely tested this system with more recent versions of Azureus/Vuze, [...]

Launch Vmware fusion apps from Quicksilver

I switched to a Mac late last year (traded a Powerbook for a Compaq Presario) and immediately started being jealous of all the owners of newer Macs with their intel chips. Specifially, I wanted VMware fusion so that I could run those select few windows apps I have yet to find reasonable mac substitutes for.

So [...]

A solution to a Quickbooks problem

At Wongutha CAPS, where I am the sysadmin-by-default, our accounts people use Quickbooks 2002.

At the end of last year, we upgraded our network to a whole bunch of lovely new desktops and a super-duper Windows 2003 server (replacing our old NT4 server). Thanks to Google search and Microsoft TechNet I have been able to come [...]

Alternate stylesheets

I am currently running three sites.

Not being one to reinvent the wheel, I am running them all with Wordpress, Sandbox and Unsleepable for Sandbox, a combination I find manageable and appealing.

Unfortunately, when everything is much the same, the same problems will appear as well! Check out the following screen shots of CastletownChemist.Com under firefox [...]

Murphy’s Law in action

I have been toying with the idea of moving from my nice thunderbird email+feeds setup back to an all-online solution.

I have been using a gmail account with POP3 access, so that part was no-brainer.

The feed reader was a bit more of a problem. I have used Bloglines in the past and enjoyed it except for [...]

Running Azureus as a windows service

This post has been superceded. Please check out Running Azureus as a windows service revisited.

I am in the process of writing another howto.

Actually, all I am doing is documenting a process that I went through to get Azureus running as a windows service. I really wanted to be able to have (down+up)loads working even when [...]

GPG security

I’m just updating my online presence today, and moving everything (which isn’t much if the truth be told) to blogspot.

That includes my GPG public key. If you know what it is for, here it is. If not, just go on to the next post!!

—–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—– Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32)

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Address Protection HOWTO

Please note, this is not about spam filtering. Filtering is like shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted. Having said that, it is often necessary, but luckily can be done when it is.

This document is about protecting your email address so that it does not get into the hands of those who would [...]