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Street Fighter 2: Mastering Great Combinations & Strategies

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Facebook app user? Beware big bills as videos - Money Saving Expert

If you've experienced higher than usual bills, check your Facebook settings as it could be down to its video auto-play

Not only it's costing people money, it's plain annoying. Many of the established mainstream site does it as well, even in their Browser version of the web site.

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Top Apps to Keep Yourself Connected

Today’s world runs on immediacy, where instant gratification is the ideal. After all, if you cannot find a factoid, then you Google for it. If you want to know more about something, there’s always a wiki about it somewhere (aside from the main Wikipedia site, that is). That’s how it works online now, and you shouldn’t be left behind. Here are some helpful tips to keep you plugged in, connected... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] http://dlvr.it/3mNGZt

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Accessing Western Digital NetCenter Password Protected Shares from Windows 7 (64 bit)

Update

I recently purchased a Toshiba R705-P35 (i3, 4GB) and it came with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit and as it turned out the secpol.msc is not available in that version of Win 7. Fortunately, a colleague of mine pointed out that the procedure described in the previous post only creates or updates a registry entry, if one already exists. Below is the procedure that works in all versions of Win 7 and tested with 64 bit Win 7 professional and home premium.

Run the registry editor and open this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

If it doesn’t already exist, create a DWORD value named LmCompatibilityLevel

Set the value to 1

Reboot

Original Post

I have a Western Digital NetCenter consumer NAS that I’ve been using since late 2006. The 250GB, 7200 RPM network attached storage has served me well. I primarily use it for achieving PDF files like downloads of online bank statements and additional backup for music and picture files.  It has few shares that arecompletely open, like Music and Pictures etc. I also have few shares on it that are password protected . I must say that security is not NetCenter’s strong point, it is based on the old “Windows for Workgroups 3.1″ model of “share level” security – all you need to access a resource is a password. But overall it meets my needs and I can mount all the shares including the password protected shares on Windows XP machines and my Linux distribution without much issue.

While testing Windows 7 on VirtualBox, trying to decide whether to upgrade, one of the first issues I encountered is its inability to connect to the password protected shares on NetCenter. It is a show stopper for me, as I am not about to throw away years of archived files or upgrade to newer drive just because Win 7 cannot connect to it. It works perfectly with my Linux distribution, where I spend 70% of my time and my wife who is the primary Windows user in the house is not complaining about Win XP SP3, which is very stable at this point.

So the Google search begins…

As it turned out this is not a NetCenter specific issue as people are complaining about other legacy NAS storages as well as mounting shares or connecting to older Windows versions.

This post helped me the most as it directly relates to the issue at hand. And the solution provided by micet worked for me and I quote

To connect to my WD Netcenter from Windows 7,  I had to set up a security policy. The default local security policy on Windows Vista/7 is set to use NTLM v2 only. This was preventing me from accessing my shares when they were configured to use a password.  The following procedure changes the policy to allow older Lan Manager Protocols if needed:

Run MMC snap-in secpol.msc

Expand Local Policies -> Security Options

Find Network security: LAN Manager authentication level

Double click and change to “Send LM and NTLM – use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated”

Now I can connect using any username and the password configured on the WD Netcenter (you must provide a username, even though it isn’t used by the WD Netcenter).

That’s it, I am in business. I verified this solution on three machines; Dell Precision M6500 (i7, 16GB), Dell Latitude E6400, and a Custom Desktop (i7, 12GB). All of them running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

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Hiding From Google

"If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." —blue_beetle, Metafilter discussion.

Google started off the new year by announcing that they will be changing their privacy policies so that they can create more detailed profiles of their users. Starting March 1st, 2012, Google will combineinformation from user’s Gmail, Google Search history, YouTube, and other services. Prior to this change, Google profiled their users, but restricted the profile data use to the service from which the data was collected.

Because we have come to rely on web services so much in our day-to-day activities, it simply isn't an option to stop using search, webmail, and social networking. But there are ways for heavy users to keep a low profile so that, should Google turn decidedly evil, you won't be completely at their mercy. If you are concerned about the amount of information that Google knows about you for whatever reason, here are some techniques you can use to guard your privacy online.

This how-to was written by Ari Douglas, an engineer-turned-lawyer, who spends his time contemplating the nexus between law, technology, and society.

Contents

1 Distributed computing

1.1 Mix and Match Services

1.2 Use a Proxy

1.3 Segment Your Email Traffic

1.4 Multi-Browser Surfing

2 Turning Off Google Web History

3 Special considerations for mobile phones

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GodMode folder in Windows

Windows has this hidden folder thru which you can control any setting of your OS. How do you create one? Here are the steps:

Create a new folder on desktop

Name that folder: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} (you can name this folder whatever you want)

Open the newly created folder

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when they aren't looking...

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Email Tips

If I had to pick one feature of Our Strata that I like the most, it would be the email functionality.  Almost everything that can be done on the web can also be done via email which makes managing your body corporate or owners corporation on-the-go a synch.

Here is a quick summary of a few of the features:

Starting discussions You can start a discussion by simply emailing your strata address such as [email protected].  You’ll need to ensure you include both a subject and message body.

Replying to a discussion To reply to a discussion from an email notification, just press reply and type away. That’s it.  To reply from a new email, either include the discussion number as a hashtag in the subject line, eg #1234, or include it in the to address, eg [email protected].

Tagging You can automatically file discussions and set their privacy by adding hashtags to the subject line.  For example, to file a discussion under maintenance and ensure that only owners & managers could see it, you would include the following hash tags anywhere in the subject line:

#maintenance #owners #managers

Signature blocks When reading your email, Our Strata will attempt to remove any previous messages and signature blocks to prevent adding information twice.  You can also tell Our Strata to stop reading any further by add — or ——- (that’s 2 or 5 hyphens) which tells Our Strata to ignore the rest of the email.

To learn more, visit our strata help page.