Category Archives: Tips and tricks

Migrating Acronis backup server to another machine

Posted on 2011/02/10 by amar

Today I have migrated Acronis backup server (0lder version) to another machine. Procedure is simple: install backup server on another machine configure backup location stop the service copy all files from old server to new server in configured backup location … Continue reading →

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Ad Hoc distribution of iOS apps over web – revised

Posted on 2011/02/02 by amar

Here is small update of my first post on Ad Hoc distribution of iOS applications over the web which you can find on this link. I have discovered that it can be even easier to distribute apps to beta testers … Continue reading →

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Disable Cmd+Q in Firefox

Posted on 2011/02/02 by amar

There isn’t a number of situations where I pressed Cmd + Q and closed Firefox instead of Cmd + W and closing current tab and I have tried a lot of different things to stop it from custom keyboard shortcuts, … Continue reading →

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Automatic sync of CodeBox library between several macs

Posted on 2011/01/07 by amar

So yesterday Apple has released 10.6.6 update with App store for Macs. One of my first purchases was CodeBox from Vadim Shpakovski. This application is really must have for all developers, but I have few things that I need for … Continue reading →

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Restoring of deleted accounts on Windows domain

Posted on 2010/12/22 by amar

Yesterday I tried to remove Exchange 2007 from Windows PDC because we have migrated to Gmail and Exchange is still eating lot of resources from it so one of the steps in removing it was to delete old mailboxes. But … Continue reading →

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Display CGRect frame values in NSLog

Posted on 2010/11/23 by amar

Here is simple tip to display frame values of any UIView with NSLog NSLog(@”My view frame: %@”, NSStringFromCGRect(myView.frame)); After this run your app and in Debugger Console you will se output where values are written in x, y, width, height … Continue reading →

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Create rounded UIViews with shadow

Posted on 2010/10/03 by amar

So here is small tip how to create rounded UIViews with shadow. Create simple Window-based Application with name TestApp. Click on File->New file and select Objective-C class with UIView subclass and name it MyView Now open MyView.m and edit initWithFrame … Continue reading →

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Find and decrypt cisco group password on Mac

Posted on 2010/10/03 by amar

So today I wanted to move one Cisco VPN connection from my MBP to another mac. The problem was that I didn’t received any .pcf file from admin, I got only group login and password (which I didn’t wrote down). … Continue reading →

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Failed to initialize dynamic preprocessor: SF_SDF (IPV6) version 1.1.1

Posted on 2010/04/30 by amar

Today I have tried to update my Snort and rules and when testing I got this error message because IPV6 was not enabled on my computer. The fix is very simple, just delete sf_sdf.dll file from C:\Snort\lib\snort_dynamicpreprocessor directory and start … Continue reading →

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How to install Snort Intrusion Detection System on Windows

Posted on 2009/12/22 by amar

First short explanation what is Snort from Snort official website: Snort® is an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system (IDS/IPS) developed by Sourcefire. Combining the benefits of signature, protocol and anomaly-based inspection, Snort is the most widely deployed … Continue reading →

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