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Google has announced plans to get Google Talk and AIM talking, but with a little elbow grease you can do that and more today.

Now that Google has opened up their Google Talk servers for federation with other Jabber servers, you can use Google Talk to connect to your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo or ICQ. Here’s how, step-by-step with screenshots.

First, download and install the free Jabber client called Psi. It’s a fine Jabber client, and you might want to keep it, but you won’t need to once you’ve set everything up. The Psi wiki has a great step-by-step for connecting to…

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Enable Autorun in USB Flash Pen Drives

Autorun any EXE, PDF, PowerPoint Presentation, Music Playlist, Flash Animation, HTML file when a USB Flash Memory device is inserted

Ask Digital Inspiration: I have a USB Thumb Drive and I want a particular program to run after i plug it into the computer. Just like a CD Autoruns. How can I do this ?

Microsoft Windows does not allow you to autorun USB drives when they are inserted. The Windows Autorun capabilities are restricted to CD-ROM drives and fixed disk drives.

If you need to make a USB Pen storage device perform Autorun, the device must…

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A desktop computer equipped with a CD writer or a DVD burner is a rare sight is most companies. But a much larger security threat is posed by the open USB ports where mischievous office workers can just plugin the Flash Pen Drive, External Hard Disk or their iPod music player and transfer corporate data or even copy licensed software to their memory sticks in seconds.

Also, USB keys are not just a popular way to sneak data out from companies, unhappy employees may use USB ports for delivering trojans or spyware into the company networks.

Now some smart admins disable usb…

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If you are worried that some programs on your PC are secretly making connections to websites in the background, here’s a quick tip that uses a simple DOS command to detect and prevent such suspicious activity:

1. Type cmd in your Windows Run box.

2. Type “netstat -b 5 > activity.txt” and press enter. After say 2 minutes, press Ctrl+C.

3. Type “activity.txt” on the command line to open the log file in notepad (or your default text editor)

The file activity.txt will have a log of all process that made a connection to the Internet in the last two minutes. It will also…

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Typing DOS commands on the Windows Command Line prompt is a most efficient and faster way of doing things in Windows XP. Here’s a run-down of the most useful DOS commands available in Windows XP. Some of these DOS commands even do not have an visual alternative.

DOS Command-line tools must be run at the prompt of the Cmd.exe command interpreter. To open Command Prompt, click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.

ipconfig – Windows IP configuration
Useful for troubleshooting your internet connection. Displays the current IP address of your computer and the DNS server address. If you call your…

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Here is a list of SQL commands and what they do, these would be used in some
injection methods and of course legitimate sql functions.
On thier own they wont exploit anything but eventually youl find an exploit
that needs these and they are good to know for injection or just to better
understand how SQL works.

ABORT — abort the current transaction
ALTER DATABASE — change a database
ALTER GROUP — add users to a group or remove users from a group
ALTER TABLE — change the definition of a table
ALTER TRIGGER — change the definition of a trigger
ALTER USER — change a database user account
ANALYZE —…

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When you hover your mouse pointer over a folder icon, you see a pop-up that
contains the folder’s size and the names of the first few files or folders
it contains. There are cases when this information, along with the folder’s
name, is helpful in identifying the folder’s contents; however, there are
other times when you have to open the folder to really see what’s in it.

You can add a detailed explanation about the folder’s contents to the pop-up
by creating a Desktop.ini file, which is a straight text file, and adding a
special entry to it. In order for this technique to work, you have…

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