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This article describes how to configure Microsoft Internet Explorer or Windows Internet Explorer to have more than two download sessions.
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In a way, creating and publishing your website is the easy part. The hard part is getting people to visit without breaking the bank on advertising. In order to gain an audience you need to let people know you exist. There are a lot of great ways to promote your online presence. Here are just a few that have proven useful to me.

• Use Technorati to promote your product (write a blog entry and promote that).
• Write an introduction to your new application and submit it to share sites like Digg, Reddit and Now Public.
• Make easy to be bookmarked on del.icio.us so you get into the popular page.
• Submit your web application to Techcrunch.
• Submit your web to StumbleUpon and get your friends to Stumble your site.
• Submit your web application to search engines like DMoz.
• Create a MySpace account and advertise your site.
• Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories (UK Small Business Directory, BT Tradespace, Biz-Dir, Redcog.net).

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Apache is an open-source HTTP server implementation. It is the most popular web server on the Internet. The December 2005 Web Server Survey conducted by Netcraft [1] shows that about 70% of the web sites on Internet are using Apache.
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From time to time its absolutely necessary to restart Windows Server 2003. This command will allow you to schedule an automatic restart at the time of your choice:

at 00:00 SHUTDOWN.EXE -r -f -t 01

Just change the 00:00 to the time of your choice. Now you dont have to stay up until after-hours to do the restart!

In reviewing the configuration of my IIS servers, I decided to remove the Administration Web Site since it’s never used. When you right click on the web site, the Delete option does not appear. Here’s how to remove the site if there is no Delete option? Since Microsoft does not allow you to delete, does this mean we shouldn’t?
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With Remote Desktop on Windows XP Professional or Windows Server 2003 (in Windows 2000 Advanced Server, this feature was called Terminal Services in Remote Administration Mode), you can have access to a Windows session that is running on your computer when you are at another computer.

What you need to do is create the new RDP listening port via the registry:
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Did you know there are keyboard shortcuts other than CRTL+ALT+DEL that you can use to lock your desktop? This will prevent people from walking up and snooping on your computer. You can save a keystroke by simultaneously pressing the Windows key + L. The Windows key has four wavy squares.

Or, to make things even easier, create a desktop shortcut.

Right click any empty area of your desktop
Click New
Click Shortcut
Type in the following: rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation
Click Next
Name your shortcut
Click Finish

Now it’s as easy as a double click

Ever wanted to know how when you go to a site the cursor is automatically “stuck” on a particular form element?  Its pretty simple actually, just add the following to your input tag:

onload="document.formname.inputname.focus()"

Pretty much how it reads, formname is the name of your form, input name is the name of the field on your form.

Everyone is always talking about the best way(s) to get yourself listed on Google’s search index.  But, maybe there’s a reason you might want something not to be listed.  Take a look at Google’s remove tool if there’s something your trying to get off of their site.  It usually takes a couple of days, but its worth it if you have a sensitive document or link you dont want everyone to be able to find.

What is BFD (Brute Force Detection)?
BFD is a modular shell script for parsing applicable logs and checking for authentication failures. There is not much complexity or detail to BFD yet and likewise it is very straight-forward in its installation, configuration and usage. The reason behind BFD is very simple; the fact there is little to no authentication and brute force auditing programs in the linux community that work in conjunction with a firewall or real-time facility to place bans. BFD is available at: http://www.rfxnetworks.com/bfd.php

This guide will show you how to install and configure BFD to protect your system from brute force hack attempts.

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