Recently an old application server arrived at the office. The server was running NT 4 and MS SQL server. We needed to get the machine running to do some reverse engineering of the code and database, however the administrator password had been lost. The original developer had moved out of state and didn’t have records, [...]
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Launch Parallels Windows App From the OSX Dock
Update: The proof of concept that I did here was actually implemented as a feature into Parallels version 2.5. Did my idea inspire them or where they already working on it…? The world may never know! My humble idea had it’s 15 minutes of fame on the social network sites. Alas, this hack is no [...]
How Windows Apps will Run on OSX
All of us who are into the Windows on OSX thing via bootcamp, parallels, VMWare, etc have been hearing of a mysterious ability to actually run windows applications right there on the OSX desktop. How would this be done – will Apple write some sort of API wrapper to run Windows Applications? Will bootcamp mysteriously [...]
Installing OpenSSL on Windows
The following is my personal successful experience installing OpenSSL on Windows. However, my machine is loaded with development tools, so there is a chance that there is something installed on my computer that is not mentioned here and, unknowingly, serving some function. However, I’m pretty sure I’ve got most of it. UPDATE:. I am also [...]
Viewing Content.IE5 Content.MSO and OLK3 Folders
Windows, IE and MS Office keeps a cache of temporary files that is hidden from Windows Explorer. The location of these folders are C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\. Browse this folder – you’ll see that there are some files and such, but you don’t see any subdirectories. In order to make the special folders [...]
