Courtesy of Windows Tips and Tricks Update from Windows IT Pro,
PPTP
- PPTP tunnel maintenance traffic needs TCP 1723.
- PPTP tunneled data needs Protocol ID 47.
L2TP over IPSec
- Internet Key Exchange (IKE) needs UDP 500.
- IPsec Network Address Translation (NAT-T) needs UDP 5500.
- L2TP traffic needs UDP 1701.
Follow this link to get the program update that Microsoft released a few days go to its Anti-Spyware program. It extends the expiration date to the end of the year and also provides some fixes and enhancements. See the referenced page for more details.
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If you use the Adblock plug-in for Firefox, you may already know about this. Apparently the old filters site, http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/, used too much bandwidth and was shut down by Geocities so he moved to this new place. The filterset is available from here.
A lot of places have a list of XP services, what they do and whether you can safely turn them off including Black Viper's site which went missing a while ago. Anyway, TechRepublic has this article available for download which lists XP services, what they do and what can be turned off or disabled.
Digg.com, one of my favorite sites, has a link to this site which lists TCP and UDP ports that many applications use. Why would you need such a list? -- well, one good reason is so you can open up (or close) ports in your firewall to allow (or prevent) access. It lists all of the standards, like SMTP (25) and TELNET (23) but missed SSH (22) and Exchange (a whole range of ports). It's strength, though, is that it lists a lot of games.
I've been waiting for this for a long time. Fry's has the Tritton Technologies Simple NAS (TRI-NSS001) on sale for $99 with a $30 mail-in rebate. That's $100 before rebate, folks ... for a box that you can populate with a drive of any size ... and access over your network ... SMB (i.e. Windows) or FTP!
And, yes, Outpost.com has it, too. Same price, same rebate.
Digg.com has this article which links to this tutorial on CSS. Nice introduction if you don't know much (or anything) about CSS.
This page on CSSCreator.com will generate a 3-column layout with fixed-width left- and right-columns and a dynamic center column, all of which are the same height with a header and a footer. Nice little page!
Don't know how long this site will be available but if you type in a URL, it'll show a screen capture of what the site looks like in Safari 2.0 or IE 5.2.3 or Mozillas 1.7.7.
Got this info from this article on digg.
Desktop Pipeline reports in this article that Firefox is vulnerable to a bug that was first reported back in 1998. There's no word on that site when the bug will be fixed but they report that the problem can be circumvented if you close all other Firefox windows (and, assumedly, tabs) before opening a window to a secure site.
Here's what I currently run:
Adblock 0.5.2.039
Clone Window 0.2.5
Ext2Abc 0.2.1
FlashGot 0.5.9.4
FLST 0.8.3
Greasemonkey 0.3.3
ieview 0.86
Image Zoom 0.1.7
LastTab 1.1
ListZilla 0.5.1
LiveLines 0.4.3
Minimize to Tray 0.0.1.20050212
MiniT+ 20050216.4
NoScript 1.0.7
Preferential 0.7
SessionSaver .2 0.2.1.027
Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.5
undoclosetab 20041125.5
User Agent Switcher 0.6.6
xMirror 0.2
Nicely done page listing tips for Firefox as well as links to extensions and other tips is Scott Kingery's Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks page.
Moox maintains a suite of builds of both Firefox and Thunderbird that are optimized for various processor types.
It's intended to be a how-to article on sending through and fetching email from GMail but this article from Freshmeat.net gives a good tutorial on setting up fetchmail and postfix.
I've gotten email from quite a few of you stating that, while you're happy that comments are back, you're not all that crazy about registering. Well, I can understand that but it's just another level of protection from comment SPAM, don't'cha know? And comment SPAM was the reason I turned off comments in the first place. That's OK, though. If you don't want to comment, you certainly don't have to ... email's OK with me.
After wrestling with the process, I've upgraded this installation to V3.16 of MovableType. Comment moderation is available in this version and I've turned it on. That means that you can comment again.