Here’s another quick tip for Microsoft Surface or Windows RT tablet owners out there. When you hop on a plane for travel you’ll need to turn off all of the various wireless interfaces (i.e. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular if you’re lucky to have that built in). Fortunately. there is a one stop shop to turn …
Mar 15 2013
Using Telnet to Delete Mass Amounts of E-mail
For whatever reason, you may end up with a huge amount of e-mail stuck on a mail server and it all just needs to go. Maybe you’ve been lax in clearing e-mail, your e-mail application isn’t managing your mailbox properly or perhaps you’ve just been spammed into oblivion. However, if you’ve got hundreds or even …
Mar 14 2013
Useful Commands When Using Telnet on a POP3 Mail Server
This article in the series of telnet articles will give you some handy commands to use when connected to a POP3 mail server. You would not normally have reason to get at your e-mail in this fashion but it could be handy if there is a huge e-mail in your mailbox that is clogging everything …
Mar 13 2013
Connecting to a POP3 Mail Server Using Telnet
Leading on from yesterday’s article on how to install telnet on Windows the next thing you need to know is how to access a mail server using it. This is fairly simply and is standard across all versions of Windows since Windows 95 so you should be covered in most cases. Anyway, this is how …
Mar 12 2013
See What You’re Typing in Telnet
Here’s a quick telnet tip. When you use telnet under Windows by default you won’t be able to see what you’re typing. This can be problematic if you’re doing lots of typing and you need to spot errors. What you need to do is enable local echo in telnet before you start using it and …
Mar 09 2013
Adding Google as a Search Provider in Internet Explorer
It seems that when you attempt to add a search provider in Internet Explorer 8, 9 or 10 that the option for Google does not appear at all (at least for me in Australia). A colleague of mine at work pointed this out when his work computer had the default of Bing but wanted to …
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