Edit: This trick also works for Windows 8 & Windows server 2012 !

The default “Windows Explorer” icon on the taskbar in Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 opens the “Libraries” by default.

Now, I’m not sure about you, but I would much rather it opened up “My Computer” instead.

Fortunately, it’s a very simple change.


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My old LG DVD burner died (after an honourable 3 year long service), and I bought a new one – Sony DRU-880S.

Now the first thing I wanted to do was upgrade the firmware to the “latest” (read, “patched”) version.
I go to Sony website, and sure enough, the device isn’t even listed there.


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This tutorial is about using any download manager to download files from Megaupload using your Premium account – be it Flashget, Getright, Free download manager (FDM), Internet download manager (IDM) etc.

Megaupload’s FAQ states – “While you can use any of the major download managers, we recommend that you use Mega Manager instead.” Partly true.

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If you manage multiple wordpress based blogs, you know it can be quite a chore.
Keeping the installations up-to-date is cumbersome. Add to that the time and effort spent keeping all the plugins up-to-date and you’re spending quite a lot of time there already.
Thankfully, there are several options that, if you find them suitable, can make your job easier.

I’m going to talk about the one that worked the best for me – the one using symbolic links.

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This tutorial will walk you through the installation of dropbear and getting SFTP and passwordless authentication working on a Debian system.

Dropbear is a lightweight SSH server and client . It implements SSH2 protocol, just like OpenSSH, but without all the bells and whistles. So much so that it doesn’t even come bundled with SFTP capability.
But we can use the SFTP server that comes bundled with OpenSSH to work with Dropbear.

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