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		<title>OS X Lion: Connecting to legacy AFP services</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lion maintains a list of authentication methods that are not allowed. These are the older, less secure authentication methods. You may need to enable one or more of these methods to support legacy devices or protocols. 1.Open Terminal. 2.Execute the following commands: sudo chmod o+w /Library/Preferences sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_host_prefs_version -int 1 3.Make an [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lion maintains a list of authentication methods that are not allowed. These are the older, less secure authentication methods. You may need to enable one or more of these methods to support legacy devices or protocols.</p>
<p>1.Open Terminal.<br />
2.Execute the following commands:</p>
<p><code>sudo chmod o+w /Library/Preferences</code><br />
<code>sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_host_prefs_version -int 1</code></p>
<p>3.Make an AFP connection to another system so that the AFP Client preference file will be filled in with the default set of values. Note: You must connect as a registered user, not as a guest.</p>
<p>4.Execute the following command to see a list of the disabled User Authentication Methods (UAMs)</p>
<p><code>defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams</code></p>
<p>By default the disabled UAMs are &#8220;Cleartxt Passwrd&#8221;, &#8220;MS2.0&#8243;, &#8220;2-Way Randnum exchange&#8221;, and &#8220;DHCAST128&#8243;. Note: if you don&#8217;t see a list, restart your computer and repeat step 3.</p>
<p>5.To enable one of these UAMs, remove it from the list of disabled UAMs. For example, this command enables DHCAST128 by removing it from the list of disabled authentication methods:</p>
<p><code>sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams -array "Cleartxt Passwrd" "MS2.0" "2-Way Randnum exchange"</code></p>
<p>6.After the desired changes have been made, restore the permissions on the Preferences folder with this command:</p>
<p><code>sudo chmod o-w /Library/Preferences</code></p>
<p>Additional Information<br />
If you want to undo the changes described above, you can either delete the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient file or use the following command to re-disable the default set of older UAMs:</p>
<p><code>sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams -array "Cleartxt Passwrd" "MS2.0" "2-Way Randnum exchange" "DHCAST128"</code></p>
<p>If that doesn&#8217;t work try this<br />
<a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3258472?start=0&#038;tstart=0" title="here" target="_blank">here</a></p>
<p>or this</p>
<p><a href="http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?p=216662" title="here" target="_blank">here</a></p>
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		<title>how to select which google calendar to sync on iphone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After logging into your Gmail account OR your google apps account please go to this url https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After logging into your Gmail account </p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>your google apps account</p>
<p>please go to this url</p>
<p>https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect</p>
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		<title>google doesnt use keywords</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html" title="Google does not use keywords" target="_blank">http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html</a></p>
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		<title>how to close comments word press</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To close all comments on existing posts and pages. UPDATE `wp_posts` SET `comment_status` = &#8216;closed&#8217;; To change the default comment status from open to closed. ALTER TABLE `wp_posts` CHANGE `comment_status` `comment_status` VARCHAR( 20 ) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT &#8216;closed&#8217;; Perhaps there is a much easier way of doing this but, Im [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To close all comments on existing posts and pages.</p>
<p>UPDATE  `wp_posts` SET  `comment_status` =  &#8216;closed&#8217;;</p>
<p>To change the default comment status from open to closed.</p>
<p>ALTER TABLE  `wp_posts` CHANGE  `comment_status`  `comment_status` VARCHAR( 20 ) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT  &#8216;closed&#8217;;</p>
<p>Perhaps there is a much easier way of doing this but, Im not sure what it is.</p>
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		<title>Quickly find any text string in any set of files</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To quickly find any text string within any text file, try this from a terminal window: grep -l [text to find] [files to look in] For example, grep -l 123abc *.html will list the name of any file in the current directory that ends in .html and contains the string 123abc. (That&#8217;s a lower-case-L following [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To quickly find any text string within any text file, try this from a terminal window:<br />
grep -l  [text to find] [files to look in]<br />
For example, grep -l 123abc *.html will list the name of any file in the current directory that ends in .html and contains the string 123abc. </p>
<p>(That&#8217;s a lower-case-L following the GREP) </p>
<p>Quite powerful, and fairly fast. Now, if you have some spare time, and want to see what it can really do, try this:<br />
su root<br />
cd /<br />
grep -lr &#8220;text to find&#8221; *<br />
This will tell the OS to find the &#8220;text to find&#8221; in every file in every directory, all the way down through the tree. The -r flag tells grep to recursively search directories. </p>
<p>Of course, OS X has something like 6,000 files, so this can take a very long time!</p>
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		<title>Changing your hosts file in Vista</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By default, if you try to modify your hosts file in Vista, it will not let you save it. It tells you that you don&#8217;t have permission. To successfully modify the hosts file, run notepad.exe as an administrator and open the file. 1) Browse to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories 2) Right click &#8220;Notepad&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By default, if you try to modify your hosts file in Vista, it will not let you save it.  It tells you that you don&#8217;t have permission.  To successfully modify the hosts file, run notepad.exe as an administrator and open the file.</p>
<p>1)  Browse to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories<br />
2)  Right click &#8220;Notepad&#8221; and select &#8220;Run as administrator&#8221;<br />
3)  Click &#8220;Continue&#8221; on the UAC prompt<br />
4)  Click File -> Open<br />
5)  Browse to &#8220;C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc&#8221;<br />
6)  Change the file filter drop down box from &#8220;Text Documents (*.txt)&#8221; to &#8220;All Files (*.*)&#8221;<br />
7)  Select &#8220;hosts&#8221; and click &#8220;Open&#8221;<br />
 <img src='http://bizante.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' />  Make the needed changes and close Notepad.  Save when prompted.</p>
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		<title>death of the fax line</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick explanation: Id like to replace the fax line with a voip service. £15 to port your existing landline fax number to a voip fax line which allows anyone in the office to send fax and receive fax through email. The fax is received as a PDF. Print if you wish or just read on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quick explanation:<br />
<strong>Id like to replace the fax line with a voip service.</strong></p>
<p>£15 to port your existing landline fax number to a voip fax line which allows anyone in the office to send fax and receive fax through email.<br />
The fax is received as a PDF. Print if you wish or just read on the screen.</p>
<p>To send a fax you just send an email to the_fax_number@soho66.co.uk.<br />
Any attachments (pdf, power point, word, excel) in the email are sent to the fax machine of the recipient.</p>
<p>Cost is £2 per month rental, plus £2 per month to send 50 pages. (more available if required.)</p>
<p><strong>Advantages.</strong><br />
No fax telephone required.<br />
No fax machine required. We would use the existing scanner in front of Ros&#8217;s desk if documents need to be scanned to be sent.<br />
No paper.<br />
No loss of fax number.</p>
<p><strong>Disadvantage.</strong><br />
You could argue that sending a fax is a two step process rather than just putting a piece of paper into the fax machine because it required scanning but, probably the truth is that most documents that need to be faxed first require printing.</p>
<p>Please follow this link for more details.</p>
<p>http://soho66.co.uk/7322/all/1/Receiving-faxes.aspx</p>
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		<title>ADSL Broad Band Interleaving</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 02:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interleaving is a technique used to stop interference affecting your data transfer. This is usually activated on all lines by default, and may be present where a fault has previously been reported. Interleaving is used by BT when providing your high-speed broadband on some phone lines, to give you a faster and more stable speed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interleaving is a technique used to stop interference affecting your data transfer.<br />
This is usually activated on all lines by default, and may be present where a fault has previously been reported.<br />
Interleaving is used by BT when providing your high-speed broadband on some phone lines, to give you a faster and more stable speed where it has been identified that your line needs it. However this may add a small delay (or added latency) on your line, which may be of concern to gamers. Removing interleaving that has been switched on is likely to result in line instability and is not recommended in most cases. If you do want to have interleaving removed you will have to ask your ISP. Some ISP&#8217;s now offer the ability to switch off interleaving from within your online customer account.</p>
<p>Please note: some customers may see no increase in speed as a result of being moved over to the new high-speed service. In some cases we will move customers back to IPStream. However, this won’t always be the best solution, so the course of action will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Often the problem is either caused by a lack of capacity from the local exchange, or cross-talk caused by other ISP’s customers also being moved to the high-speed service.</p>
<p>Interleaving is a process/function that is applied between the equipment in the exchange (DSLAM) and the router in the customer premises (CPE) </p>
<p>Interleaving is applied at layer one of the OSI model http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/OSI_Layers.asp<br />
This is the level were data bits, ones and zeros, are sent over the physical line. It is these bits that ultimately make up any information passing over the line. </p>
<p>There are 2 scenarios, something referred to as fast or (Non-Interleaved) and Interleaved.<br />
Terms to note: Tx = Transmit; Rx = Receive </p>
<p>Fast:<br />
The data bits that are sent at layer one are all sent in a consecutive order e.g.<br />
Tx &#038; Rx Bit order (Non-Interleaved): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16<br />
If there are errors on the line the errors will usually occur in a consecutive order e.g.<br />
TX &#038; Rx Bit order (Non-Interleaved): 1 2 3 x x x 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16<br />
How DSL works is that is can recover from such errors automatically as long as no more that one consecutive data bit is lost at a time. </p>
<p>This comes on to Interleaving:<br />
When interleaving is applied to the line the data bits are not sent in consecutive order, they are buffered and then reordered to look something like this.<br />
TX &#038; Rx Bit order (Interleaved): 1 8 15 2 9 16 3 10 17 4 11 18 5 12 19 6<br />
So if the same errors as above were to occur on the data stream they would appear as follows.<br />
TX &#038; Rx Bit order (Interleaved): 1 8 15 x x x 3 10 17 4 11 18 5 12 19 6 </p>
<p>The corruption will still happen in sequence but when the bits are then put back into order the corruption is non sequential and only one consecutive data bit was lost at a time the system could recover without any affect on the line. </p>
<p>E.G. After the bits are re-ordered: 1 x 3 4 5 6 7 8 x 10 11 12 13 14 15 x </p>
<p>The concerns that some of you have raised are that there will be an increase in Lag on the line should interleaving be applied. This is true because the process of buffering the data bits and reordering them can add anything between 5ms and 20ms onto the time. This is also only in one direction, data travel in 2 directions, Tx and Rx. So this will mean that it could realistically add 10ms to 40ms on the round trip time. </p>
<p>It is also important to note that the time is not random it depends on the make of the DSLAM, some manufacturers kit can do this process in a shorter time than others. BT Wholesale does not have one supplier of equipment so we can not say what the effect will be on each line. </p>
<p>Having interleaving on will increase the line stability, there will be less likely hood of dropped connections or slow speeds, but it does increase your response times which gamers may not want. </p>
<p>To put everyone’s mind at ease there is going to be a way to either turn interleaving on or off, we just have not got to the finer details on how yet. </p>
<p>This is a copy of a post originally by Ian Willmore of Nildram. </p>
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		<title>cufon.js not working in IE9</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 20:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With IE9 cufon doesn’t render anything at all, not even text.To fix this problem try &#60;!&#8211;[if gte IE 9]&#62; &#60;script type=&#8221;text/javascript&#8221;&#62; Cufon.set(&#8216;engine&#8217;, &#8216;canvas&#8217;); &#60;/script&#62; &#60;![endif]&#8211;&#62; or  force compatibility mode on the browser by putting this in your head. &#60;meta content=&#8221;IE=8&#8243; http-equiv=&#8221;X-UA-Compatible&#8221; /&#62; or download the latest nightly and replace your old cufon-yui.js.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With IE9 cufon doesn’t render anything at all, not even text.To fix this problem try</p>
<blockquote><p>
&lt;!&#8211;[if gte IE 9]&gt; &lt;script type=&#8221;text/javascript&#8221;&gt; Cufon.set(&#8216;engine&#8217;, &#8216;canvas&#8217;); &lt;/script&gt; &lt;![endif]&#8211;&gt;</p></blockquote>
<p>or  force compatibility mode on the browser by putting this in your head.</p>
<blockquote><p>&lt;meta content=&#8221;IE=8&#8243; http-equiv=&#8221;X-UA-Compatible&#8221; /&gt;</p></blockquote>
<p>or <a href="http://github.com/sorccu/cufon/raw/master/js/cufon.js">download the latest nightly</a> and replace your old cufon-yui.js.</p>
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		<title>website marketing traditional strategies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 18:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Include Your URL on Stationery, Cards, and Literature. Make sure that all business cards, stationery, brochures, and literature contain your company&#8217;s URL. Promote using traditional media. Don&#8217;t discontinue print advertising that you&#8217;ve found effective. But be sure to include your URL in any display or classified ads you purchase in trade journals, newspapers, yellow pages, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Include Your URL on Stationery, Cards, and Literature. Make sure that all business cards, stationery, brochures, and literature contain your company&#8217;s URL. </p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Promote using traditional media. Don&#8217;t discontinue print advertising that you&#8217;ve found effective. But be sure to include your URL in any display or classified ads you purchase in trade journals, newspapers, yellow pages, etc. View your website as an information adjunct to the ad. Use a two-step approach: (1) capture readers&#8217; attention with the ad, (2) then refer them to a URL where they can obtain more information and perhaps place an order.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Develop a Free Service. It&#8217;s boring to invite people, &#8220;Come to our site and learn about our business.&#8221; It&#8217;s quite another to say &#8220;Use the free kitchen remodeling calculator available exclusively on our site.&#8221; Make no mistake, it&#8217;s expensive in time and energy to develop free resources, but it is very rewarding in increased traffic to your site &#8212; and a motivation to link to the site! </p></blockquote>
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