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How to get an named alias for your dynamic IP

No matter if you use a DHCP connection (which means you have a different IP address for each connection – every 56k and ISDN line, and some DSL and Cable lines) or a static IP one, if you have a server installed on your machine, you may take advantage by "changing" your IP with a [...]

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How to use ImgBurn for batch build/create/burn ISO to backup to DVD

This guide is based on ImgBurn 2.4.4.0, which you can currently get from here. In case you’re reading this guide way after the publication date (may’09), then it could be possible the author added the functionality directly in the software, rendering this howto pretty much useless Anyway, the whole point of this guide is doing [...]

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How to install configure and manage an FTP server

2008 notice: up to date, the most complete and freeware FTP server is FileZilla. I do not have time, will, and resources to re-edit the whole guid to this software, anyway you can follow the same basic principles to setup a server This is dedicated to all of you who would like to share with [...]

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A guide to FTP clients and to downloading files from FTP servers

Well, you gotta know the server details, first of all the IP address, or, if existing, the alias (something like “nick.dyndns.org” or “nick.cjb.net”). If the server is private, as often it is, you’ll have to know the port it’s listening to (the standard one is 21, but you may find 22, 23, 59, 92, and [...]

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Create PDF files from any document type for free

2008 notice: now that OpenOffice can create PDFs natively just by pressing a button, this guide is really useful to create PDF in other applications: everywhere you have access to a “print” function, you can use this procedure to create a PDF. Yes, there is indeed a way to create a PDF out of every [...]

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Batch script to copy your backups from cd/dvd optical disks to a hard disk/nas

4/14/2010. I recently decided to drop the habit of backing up all data to optical disks and use a 2 terabyte external hard disk instead. Not exactly cheaper, but what you lose in money (just once) you gain tenfolds in speed, comfort and ease of use, and physical space needed for storage. So I got [...]

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mIRC script to check and show the pc uptime

Wouldn’t it be nice if just by issuing the command /uptime you could send to the window you have currently open a test like this? This is what just appeared when I typed /uptime in my mIRC. Obviously my nick has been ripped off for privay reasons   It is much more complete than any [...]

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