Wireless Booster

For a client who wanted wireless across a large outdoor area, we wound up using the following pieces:

Hawking HSB2, which has 500mw, 200 mw, and 100mw settings. It has SMA connector.

We also utilized an extender cable for the booster, 7 feet long, the Hawking HAC7SS. Of course it has opposite gender SMA connectors at each end.

That antennae cable was attached to a DLINK WBR-1310, after removing the existing SMA antennae.

Note: You should avoid cannot MIMO style antennae arrangements, since the two antennae work together. Also to note, many of the Linksys, or even just many of the 802.11N routers/waps, bury the antennae inside the unit. We need removable!

Finally, warn the customer that if at the highest signal level if anyone complains of interference then he is required to eliminate the interference...presumably lowering the signal boost.

Note on Linksys connectors: as they use TNC some converters must be used, but they are obtainable in some antennae kits.

Seeing and Setting Stored Passwords

For Network Shares:
control keymgr.dll

For User Passwords (a little like Control Panel)
control userpasswords2

Lots of other kinds of passwords and ways to get/change them:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_passwords.htm

Netscape 4 - Recovering Lost Folders

Situation: there is a folder with lots of content visible in Explorer in the Mail area, but it does’t show in Netscape’s view of folders.

Solution: Create a folder to hold the “lost contents” with a unique name.

Look in the lost folder in Explorer for files like title1 and title1.snm

In netscape, create a “new folder” in the unique folder with the exact same name. Using explorer copy title1 and title1.snm up to the unique folder and paste, overwriting the existing blank/zero ones just created.

If there are subfolders within the lost folder copy them up first.

POP commands using TELNET

user: whoever@domain.com
pass: thepassword

commands can be as follows:
list
retr
kill

SMTP Commands for Telnet

Ah the joys of testing smtp mail servers. Sometime it's useful to do things by hand.

get into telnet.

issue command : o mailserver 25 (or whatever port)

see header that the mailserver provides
issue command: helo (often required, sometimes not) (sometimes ehlo)

mail from: name@domain.com
rcpt to: whoever@wherever.com
data:
bla bla bla
.

(close with a , period then two enters)

Changing Color of Outlook 2007

Office 2007 has three standard color templates to choose from : Blue, Silver, and Black.

In Word and Excel the choice is available in the options areas.

But in Outlook 2007 you need an extra step to be able change the color scheme. The basic fact is you need to get the Office 2007 "start" circle "up" in the upper left corner. This comes about by creating a new piece of email. Then head to the options areas.

Clean a Domain's Incoming Spam

Basically point the domain's MX record to a cleaning company who will then send back to your mailserver a much cleaned stream of email.

spamsoap.com
mxlogic.com

etc

Creating Recovery Console

From inside a working Windows XP, you can install a Recovery Console

d:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons

This can aid when there are problems, so at startup you will then see the Recovery Console option and can boot into that console. It's a DOS like console allowing one to fix certain things. You can't get into every subdirectory though.

More info here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654

Outlook "remembered" Email Addresses

Of course many people use Contacts, but many rely on addresses they have typed in but not saved in the Contacts area. Outlook has conveniently saved them and showed them whenever a letter or name is typed - showing the remembered addresses and the Contacts as well. (note, Outlook 200 may take a tab to the next filed or a Alt Enter to see the suggestions.)

But the remembered ones are not saved in the .pst file, so when setting someone's email on a new computer you need to grab more than just the .pst file.

The remembered addresses are kept in a .KN2 file, which is stored in the profile\application data\microsoft\outlook folder.

TRICK: On the new pc, get the profile setup and the .pst in place, then create an email using somebody not in the contacts and send it (or save to drafts). Then exit Outlook. In the aforementioned folder there will be a baby .KN2 file - replace it with their old one, renaming it if necessary to what the new profile created. So to summarize, you have to let the Outlook environment create the .KN2 file, and then replace it.

This has been tested and works for Outlook 2003 and 2007, and presumably 2000 and 2002.

Great Music At WolfGang's Vault

A HUGE archive of music has been pulled together from Bill Graham Concerts, TV's Mdnight Special and other great resources.

Here's an Allman Brothers' song from a 1971 Concert, One Way out: