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I’m on a Mac: Screensavers and keys

Posted on 2011/11/30 by Patrick

No real editorial here, just capturing some metrics.  Number of keys lost when coming out of screensaver or sleep to the unlock password prompt: Windows XP: 1..n — You have to hit ctrl-alt-del anyway.  And all keys between CAD and … Continue reading →

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Getting all of Ubuntu to talk through a NTLM proxy

Posted on 2009/11/10 by Patrick

NTLM proxies are relatively common corporate web proxy. It takes special software to pass through it, unfortunately. One must essentially log into an NT domain to get to the web past the proxy. By default, web browsers are the only … Continue reading →

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