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Eagle – filled circles
When you draw a cicle in Eagle, it normally has only the outline… here’s a quick trick to fill it: Right click on the circle and choose Properties: Set 0 as the Width value
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KMS server and Windows 8 or Server 2012 clients
Today I needed to activate, using my KMS server running on Windows 2008 R2, some desktops and servers with Windows 8 and Windows 2012. First, you need to install an update, KB2885698, to make the KMS
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Prevent simultaneous connection to wifi and wired networks
After having learned how to create a blacklist of SSIDs, today I’d like to share with you a useful opensource tool to prevent simultaneous connection to a wifi and a wired network. From the security
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Prevent the connection to a wifi network via GPO
Today I was asked to prevent the corporate laptops from connecting to a particular wifi network. With the use of a group policy (GPO) it is possible to define a blacklist of SSID; let’s
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VMWare VirtualCenter Server keeps restarting
Today I found a strange problem in a VMWare infrastructure I manage: the connection to the V irtualCenter Server was unstable using both the desktop client and the new webclient. When I connected to
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Eagle – Pin names
Today, working on a new library component for Eagle, I noticed that both the pin name (configured in the component’s symbol) and the pad name (configured in the package) were displayed: When you add
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Citrix Receiver and proxy server
The Citrix client (Citrix Receiver) running on the user’s PC normally uses the proxy configuration of the system. Sometimes you may need to give the client a different configuration: the configuration must be performed
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IE8 does not show PDF files when using HTTPS
In the last few days, I faced a strange problem during my job: a web application, running on Tomcat, dynamically generates some PDF reports. When we activated the HTTPS to secure the connection, users with
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VBScript: how to manage SSL certificates
Yesterday at work I needed to write a script to check if an SSL certificate was present in the user’s store and – if not – to automatically import it&#
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JavaScript: same origin policy and JSONP
The same origin policy is a security policy that all the modern browsers apply to client-side scripting languages, including JavaScript. That policy prevents a script running in the browser from calling methods and resources offered by
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