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Have office? Want to get rid of that annoying “have you tried live office yet?” popup, that just doesn’t go away? Create a new file on your desktop, called “officefix.txt” Paste this into it; Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\OfficeLive] "FirstRunCredsDeleted"=dword:00000001 "FirstRunDontShow"=dword:00000001 Then rename that file to officefix.reg Double click it to add it to your registry. Re-run word, powerpoint, or whatever. Thank me in the comments. Comments Comment by Sean on 2009-09-09 16:00:18 -0500 For Microsoft’s official response, http://support....

Have you ever wondered how you could access your external hostnames, internal to your network connected via wifi, mobile devices or just plain old desktops? Today we found out we needed to. Our mobile devices require the use of external hostnames to sync data against. And it’s nice being able to use our external hostname for Outlook Web Access, and debugging internally. For example: Billy wants to visit http://www.mycompanyname.com Billy can’t because that particular site is hosted off the external IP of the network he’s on....

Today I wanted to go about fixing my Windows Small Business Server 2003 server, which is connected via APC UPS along with a Gentoo Linux box running my Asterisk PBX to send a shutdown command if the power goes out. I’m not rich (yet) so I’m not able to afford a fancy UPS. Instead the one I have only has one monitoring cable. So, I had to create a way to shut down the Linux box on power failure, while also shutting down the Windows box too....