Happiness = incidental byproduct of work well done.
We all gather a lot of extra cables over time, and we’re afraid to get rid of them for fear we might need them one day. The solution? Take all those toilet paper tubes you use up and turn them into an ugly but incredibly awesome cable organizer. It’ll keep all your cables stored and labeled neatly, without tangles, all the while making use of your trash. You can also use them to just control your cable clutter of individual appliances, too.
Visit any forum or website to find something useful and they will ask you to register. Every time a forum asks me to register, I simply close the site. You would probably do the same. But this time, lets face it.
Before I begin, you should know how things work. All websites and forums will block unregistered users, but they won’t block Google Bot. What we will do is to switch our User Agent to that of Google Bot and freely browse any website or forum without registering.
First grab the add-on for Firefox called ‘user agent’ here and install it. Now go to Tools > User Agent Switcher > Options and then again to Options.
Select User Agent from the left sidebar and click Add. Now in the description field type:
crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com
and in user agent field type:
Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
as shown in the screenshot below.
Select Google Bot as your User Script by going to Tools > User Agent Switcher.
Now browse any website or forum without registering. Alternatively you can also check out BugMeNot, it is a free online service where people share login information of thousands of websites and forums. Enjoy!
To test what routes are in place currently:
“get router info routing-table details”
Bandwidth is just one element of what a person perceives as the speed of a network. Latency is another element that contributes to network speed. The term latency refers to any of several kinds of delays typically incurred in processing of network data. A so-called low latency network connection is one that generally experiences small delay times, while a high latency connection generally suffers from long delays.
Although the theoretical peak bandwidth of a network connection is fixed according to the technology used, the actual bandwidth you will obtain varies over time and is affected by high latencies. Excessive latency creates bottlenecks that prevent data from filling the network pipe, thus decreasing effective bandwidth. The impact of latency on network bandwidth can be temporary (lasting a few seconds) or persistent (constant) depending on the source of the delays.
Satellite Internet service illustrates the difference between latency and bandwidth on computer networks. Satellite Internet connections possess both high bandwidth and high latency. When loading a Web page, for example, most satellite users can observe a noticeable delay from the time they enter a Web address to the time the page begins loading. This high latency is due primarily to propagation delay as the request message travels at the speed of light to the distant satellite station and back to the home network. Once the messages arrive on Earth, however, the page loads quickly like on other high-bandwidth Internet connections (DSL or cable).
Besides propagation delays, latency also may also involve transmission delays (properties of the physical medium) and processing delays (such as passing through proxy servers or making network hops on the Internet).
Network tools like ping tests and traceroute measure latency by determining the time it takes a given network packet to travel from source to destination and back, the so-called round-trip time. Round-trip time is not the only way to specify latency, but it is the most common.
On DSL or cable Internet connections, latencies of less than 100 milliseconds (ms) are typical and less than 25 ms desired. Satellite Internet connections, on the other hand, average 500 ms or higher latency.
Two key elements of network performance are bandwidth and latency. The average person is more familiar with the concept of bandwidth as that is the one advertised by manufacturers of network equipment. However, latency matters equally to the end user experience as the behavior of satellite Internet connections illustrates. Businesses use the term Quality of Service (QoS) to refer to measuring and maintaining consistent performance on a network by managing both bandwidth and latency in a coordinated fashion.
Really great blog post about cracking XP admin password.
Download here : Bulk Rename Facility – for files
Bulk Rename Utility is an easy to use file rename program (a.k.a. file renamer). Renaming multiple files has never been easier! It has a small memory footprint so it can be left running all the time without consuming all your memory. It started as a freeware Visual Basic tool, but as its popularity has grown it has been completely rewritten in C++ to be robust and lightweight – and very, very fast! It can easily handle folders/discs containing well over 100,000 entries… and it can batch rename 1,000s of files in seconds.
The software is freeware and gets downloaded very frequently. It has a large base of regular users. Most of the features have originated from other users’ suggestions. As such, it is continually being enhanced and improved.
As well as being “recommended” by a number of web sites, Bulk Rename Utilityhas also appeared on many magazine cover-discs, from Brazil to Sweden software!
People who need to see or work with your site content but who don’t have user accounts for your SharePoint Online environment are considered “external users.” External users might be vendors or customers, for example. With SharePoint Online, after you activate the feature, you can invite an external user to your site just by sending them an email.
This topic covers: how a SharePoint Online administrator enables the external sharing feature for all of the SharePoint site collections in their SharePoint Online environment; how site collection administrators can activate theExternal user invitation feature for each site collection; how site owners can invite external users to work within specific sites and sub-sites; and how to associate any email address with a Microsoft account.
When you share a site in SharePoint, an email message is sent to the external user containing the invitation to join your site. You can send the invitation to people with any type of email address, such as *.gmail.com, *.contoso.com, or *.comcast.net. However, to log in to your SharePoint site, the email address has to be associated with a Microsoft account.
In this article
Enable or disable external users for a SharePoint environment
Enable external sharing for SharePoint Online
Disable external sharing for SharePoint Online
Turn external sharing on or off for a site collection
Activate external sharing for a site collection
Inactivate external sharing for a site collection
Share your site with external users
Associate an email address with a Microsoft account
As a SharePoint Online administrator, you can allow or deny external collaboration for your SharePoint Online deployment by enabling or disabling the Manage External Users feature. If you enable external users, then any site collection administrator can turn on the External user invitations feature for his or her site collection.
As a site collection administrator for SharePoint Online, if the SharePoint Online administrator has allowed external user access, then you can turn on the External user invitation feature for your site collection. By default it is off and no one can invite users to the site.
Only when the External user invitation feature is enabled for the site collection and Manage external users is set to Allow for the SharePoint Online environment, can site owners or site collection administrators invite people from outside the organization to see and work with content on the SharePoint Online sites.
NOTE Whether or not Manage external users is set to Allow, anonymous access is not allowed. Users must be authenticated before they can use internal resources.
NOTE Only SharePoint Online administrators can complete these procedures.
By default, SharePoint Online does not allow external users. To enable the potential for external users to be invited to any of the site collections in your environment, do the following steps.
After you’ve set the SharePoint environment to allow external users, site collection administrators can activate the External user invitations feature for their individual site collections to enable invitations to be sent to external users. After the feature is enabled for a site collection, anyone in the SharePoint site Owners group or anyone with site collection administration permissions can send invitations to users. For more information about permissions and SharePoint groups, see the articles in the See Also section.
After SharePoint Online is set to allow external user access to all site collections, a SharePoint Online administrator can disable External Users. This prevents any new invitations from being sent, and prevents current external users from accessing sites or content by denying them access.
Use these procedures to disable external sharing on all site collections.
SECURITY If you change the setting back to Allow, any external users who had permission to access sites and content will automatically be granted those permissions.
NOTE Only site collection administrators can complete these procedures.
After the SharePoint Online environment has been set to allow external sharing, site collection administrators can choose whether or not to allow external users to be invited to sites in their site collections. Use these procedures to allow external sharing for a site collection.
After you’ve activated external user invitations for the site collection, anyone in the SharePoint Owners group or anyone who has site collection administrator permissions can send email messages to invite external users and then assign them appropriate permissions to access sites. For more information about SharePoint permissions and groups, see the articles in the See Also section.
If a site collection is set to allow external user access, you can change the setting on the site collection so that no future invitations can be sent. A user who has permission to sites and content will continue to have access to the site collection unless they are removed from the site’s permissions page.
You can set the site collection back to allow external user invitations at any time.
NOTE Deactivating the External user invitations feature on the site collection does not block access to external users who previously had access to sites and content, it only prevents future invitations from being sent. To prevent an external user from accessing a site once permission was granted, you must either explicitly remove the user’s name from the site permissions page or disable external sharing for all site collections.
NOTE Only users who are members of the SharePoint Owners group or who are site collection administrators can complete this procedure.
This procedure explains how to invite an external user to access your SharePoint Online sites or sub-sites.
When you invite an external user to use your sites, you have the option to give them Visitor or Member permissions. Visitors have read access and Members have read and write access to the site or sites. For more information about SharePoint permission groups, see the links in the See Also section.
The person you have invited to the site receives an email that includes a link to accept the invitation. To accept the invitation, the invitee needs to provide an email address that is associated with a Microsoft account, or, if they’re an existing Office 365 customer, a Microsoft Online Services ID. If they don’t have an email address or a Microsoft account, they can create one for free. The email address that is associated with the Microsoft account, the Hotmail, Live, or MSN address, or the Microsoft Online Services ID is the email address the person uses to log in to your SharePoint site.
NOTES
Keep in mind that once you invite external users to your site, it is easy to grant them permission to other sites. Ensure that you know the identity of users who are invited through e-mail and consider reconfirming their identity before granting an external user access to content.An external user invitation can be accepted only one time. The invitation email can be forwarded to another recipient who can use the invitation to access the SharePoint site. However, after the e-mail invitation has been accepted, it expires.
If you attempt to invite an external user to use your site when your company has set SharePoint Online to deny external users, you will see a note in the Share Site box that that says, “Invitations to users outside your organization are currently disabled.”
To use an email address, such as *.contoso.com, to log on to a SharePoint Online site, the email address must first be associated with Microsoft account. You can register an email address with your Microsoft account by following the steps at this website.
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->Site Settings
->Site Collection Administration
->Site collection features
->External user invitations
->Activate (Allow external users to be invited to the site).
Then when I back to Site Actions ->Share Site
If the pop-out windows still shows “Invitations to users outside your organization are currently disabled” follow below advice.
Resolving this issue depends on what type of subscription you have. If you have a Small Business (P1) subscription, you can deactivate and then re-active the feature and it should resolve the issue. If you have an Enterprise (E) subscription, there will be an additional area where you will need to make sure the feature is enabled. First, you will need to log into the Administration Portal. In the Administration Portal, you will need to click on “Manage” under SharePoint Online. When the next page loads, click on “Manage Site Collection” and your list of site collections will load. Click on the “Settings” button at the top and you will have the option to “Manage External Users”. You will need to set the radio button to allow the external users. Save the changes and then try again.
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