Davids Support Blog

Defending against SYN Floods and Spoofing with IPTables

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:55:00 GMT

How to rate limit, defend against syn floods and defend against spoofing in linux using IPTables.

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Getting all zone records with Dig

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:02:00 GMT

How to use Dig to retrieve all the zone DNS entries.

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IIS 7 SEO Toolkit

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:13:00 GMT

A nice little addin for IIS 7 to help with search engine optimization (SEO) of sites hosted on the IIS 7 platform.

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Generating a CSR request for an SSL Certificate in Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:05:00 GMT

How to generate a CSR for an SSL certificate using powershell for both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010.

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The CHECK_POLICY and CHECK_EXPIRATION options cannot be turned OFF when MUST_CHANGE is ON

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:36:00 GMT

How to remove MUST_CHANGE from a SQL Login.

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Forgotten your MySQL password ? Here's how to reset it...

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:20:00 GMT

Every so often even the best of us will forget an important password now and then. If it happens to be your MySQL root password, here is how to fix it.

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How Google is making us dumber - or how I fixed my Zune.exe high CPU usage

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:49:00 GMT

Sometimes you need to remember basic troubleshooting and try that before going to google...

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Windows Web Server 2008 - No DNS Role

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:54:00 GMT

A work around for the fact that Windows 2008 Web Server does not allow the installation of the DNS role.

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Programmatically Setting Processor Affinity

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:41:00 GMT

How to set processor affinity to restrict a process to certain cores or set it to use all cores...

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Sharing your Internet Connection in Windows 7

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:49:00 GMT

Using Internet connection sharing to give access to others via an ad hoc network to aircards can be a useful thing. Windows 7 makes it significantly easier.

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