Archive for February, 2009

Running OpenVPN-gui 2.X in Windows Vista

Posted: 13th February 2009 by Mats Hellman in Linux, Networking, Windows
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This is a short short note how to get OpenVPN-GUI 2.X working under Windows Vista. First of all you have to set it to always run as administrator. Go to the folder where it is installed and in the Bin folder you’ll find the OpenVPN-GUI executable. On the Compatibility tab you find Privilege Level, set [...]

Make Internet Explorer usable with a few add-ons

Posted: 13th February 2009 by Mats Hellman in Windows
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Even if I am, and have been for many years now, a Firefox user I do occasionally look back and feel I want to use Internet Explorer again. The simple reason for this is the small amount of resources this browser uses. I know it’s evil, unsecure, doesn’t follow the standards, is preloaded and always [...]

My home office

Posted: 12th February 2009 by Mats Hellman in Life
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We moved into our new house in May 2008 and it took me some time to get settled and plan the way I wanted my brand new home office to look like.  A few months later I was settled on a design I did in IKEA Planner. As all furniture I bought to my office [...]

ASP.NET Basics Part two – special folders

Posted: 11th February 2009 by Mats Hellman in ASP.NET, Programing
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I’m really sorry this post is a little late. My keyboard’s left shift button died and I had to get myself a new one. More on that in another post. I assume you have read the article from last week. This week we are going to take a look at a few of the special [...]

Linux ready for the masses/desktops?

Posted: 6th February 2009 by Mats Hellman in Linux, Windows

Being a fairly active StumbleUpon user I see these posts about Linux being ready for the desktops all the time. Actually I’ve been reading about it since I started using Linux back in 2002. Still Linux has not made a big leap into the home user market or the enterprise market. Why is this? Linux [...]