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Windows, smartcard and automatic locking

I had a little problem with one Windows XP dell laptop where we use smartcards.
Normally when you remove smartcard from the laptop windows will lock your desktop but
this time windows didn’t do nothing when you removed smartcard from the laptop.
I tried to reinstall some software but that didn’t help at all but then I found [...]

How to retrieve serial number of proliant server

This time I needed to get serial number of hp ProLiant DL380 server without taking the server out or even going next to that server so I find out that it’s pretty easy to get serial number of that server with a sort wmic command and some magic parameters.

Just open command prompt and say:

wmic /node:HOSTNAME [...]

Overlook Fing network scanner for Android

I have used many network scanner/monitor apps on my IOS devices and Android devices but now I found Overlook Fing which is everyway better than any of those which I had tried before.

It’s fast, show vendor (It get this from MAC-address), it can scan services it can export your current network to CSV, XML and [...]

Problems with TimeMachine and Airport Extreme with USB harddrive

I had iomega’s 2 terabyte external USB harddrive and I wanted to use that as a disk for my timemachine backups. When I plugged it in to my iMac it showed up to my desktop and I could do my timemachine backups to it like a dream.

Then I wanted to get rid of useless stuff [...]