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RDP With TSG on Mac

I found myself digging the issue this morning, I had to connect someone from Canada to our Terminal Server using TSG (Terminal Services Gateway) on an iPad.

After digging for a while, I finally found Microsoft themselves created a client for the Mac.

Joomla: Full Text RSS Feeds for FREE

General

Joomla Full Text RSS Feeds for Free?!

I know you've been all looking for this as I have.

Here's the solution, follow carefully, and enjoy :)

1. Download and install 4RSS Extension, its in the Joomla Extension Directory. This plugin allows you to add rss feeds that will automatically be downloaded and implented as your own articles on your site, But it will take them "as is" and wont go and fetch the full text. Such extension is not available for free.

Duplicating a whole filesystem with tar

General

Ever wanted to copy your entire filesystem into another including all the links and permissions?

Say we have a filesystem in /filesystem.

We wanna duplicate that filesystem to a new filesystem in /destination.

How to change Windows XP Serial

Windows XP

Sometimes you have the need to change your windows XP Serial number, wether because you had an illegal copy and bought a license, or you are ghost-installing a bounch of similar computers and you want to install each's individual key.

There are two methods I know of for doing this:

Method 1: Microsoft's Official Tool

Microsoft's Official Windows Product Key Update Tool (for changing keys only):
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=50346&clcid=0x409

Preventing multiple form submissions

General

So how many times have you built a PHP form processing script and ended up with dozens of duplicate database entries, duplicate mail sent etc...?

I've been diggin this for the last 48 hours and it was hell. the net is flooded with snippets of code that just won't do it!

Mainly javascript. All the wiseasses will come to you and say "Just add onclick="this.button=disabled;" to your submit button and this should do it".

Well I've got news for you -- This WILL disable the button upon click but won't submit the form.

The following code, is the only thing that works, this after days of digging. trust me!

Make your button like this:

<input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="this.form.submit();this.disabled=true;this.value='Processing'" />

This will submit the form, disable the button and turn the text in it to "Proccessing" so that the user will understand what the hell is going on.

Enjoy!

Simba.

Forgot Administrator Password

Windows XP

One thing that happens sometimes to just about anyone, is when you forget your administrator password and you can no longer access your Windows XP/2000/2003 machine, or you just wanna hack someone else's :)

Anyhow, there are a few simple and more complicated methods to doing this.

Windows XP Installation How to

Windows XP

Installing Windows XP is not a difficult tasks, However there are a few things that needs to be taken into consideration here:

If you are installing on a current installation, make sure to backup your stuff first, That is all your files and documents and personal data that you saved on the computer. Programs cannot be saved as they require certain registry and system parameters that are installed during one program's installation.
If this is a fresh installation, make sure your PC can take it. I have seen Pentium 3's with 256mb of RAM do the job fine, but something new and nice would go better :)
Make sure you have the product key and all that mumbo-jumbo.

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