Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

Disable SSLv2 in IIS 6

Does work­ing with third-party ven­dors require you to have the unfor­tu­nate plea­sure of work­ing with IIS 6? Do you need to dis­able SSLv2 and frus­trated by the use­less­ness of Microsoft’s sup­port doc­u­men­ta­tion? Four sim­ple steps Open regedit.exe (Start Menu > Run > regedit) Nav­i­gate to HKey_Local_Machine > Sys­tem > Cur­rent­Con­trolSet > Con­trol > Secu­ri­tyProviders > SCHANNEL […]

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Hide Gmail image ads

It looks like Google may be rolling out image ads in Gmail?! This is poten­tially very dis­ap­point­ing. I’ve always loved Gmail because of it’s lack of flashy, dis­tract­ing graphic adver­tise­ments. Here’s what I encoun­tered when I checked my email this evening: Gross. Luck­ily, Chrome (my pri­mary web browser), Fire­fox, and most other mod­ern browsers, support […]

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flashie.org – Ridiculously simple online flash cards

Moti­va­tion I recently took a semes­ter of Man­darin at the Uni­ver­sity of Min­nesota. For an Eng­lish speaker, learn­ing Man­darin is chal­leng­ing. Not only are you learn­ing new words and gram­mar, but you’re also learn­ing new char­ac­ters. I’ve used flash cards in the past to learn for­eign lan­guage vocab­u­lary, but they didn’t seem to fit in […]

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Kamus Kecil

I cre­ated www.kamuskecil.com today dur­ing lunch as I ate last night’s left­overs in my cube. It’s a stupid-simple, no-frills Indonesian-English dic­tio­nary. I’ve been sit­ting on this data for years now and once had a grand vision for it, but let’s face it; it’s just a dic­tio­nary. And, I really only expect one user—myself. So if […]

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