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The optional secret question – #SecurityFail

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Using SQL queries to read Excel files in macros

I’m doing my Masters in Geographic Information Systems at U of T and found the need to do this in my research. You can treat Excel sheets as tables and perform SELECTs and JOINS like you would against...

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DB2 is so lame

So I’m trying to change the size of a column in DB2. Nothing fancy, just expand a varchar from 100 to 200 and in DB2 Control Center I get the following message: The current column attribute change may...

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How does Microsoft Exchange NOT send this to SPAM?

This was a message sent with “High Importance” and our Exchange server let it through. It’s like their spam filter checks for the word ‘viagra’ and that’s it. Anything else passes. Subject:...

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Free World Cup 2010 Office Pool Software

Thanks to Haroon Rafique and Cris Diaconu for their contributions. This pool is much like the last one. You are free to download the software. It’s basically one index.php script which does everything....

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View Unread or New Comments in Disqus – WordPress Hack

The job here is to highlight unread or new comments that a visitor to your site has not seen. This is especially helpful when you have a blog with lots of threaded comments where it becomes difficult...

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Smugmash: Turn your SmugMug pics into a YouTube video

Recently I came across Pummelvision, which takes your photos from Flickr and other similar sites and creates a video out of them. Being a loyal SmugMug user for years, I was a bit disappointed that...

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Phishing Emails Aren’t Trying Anymore

Got this in my inbox today: Dear Customer As part of our security measures, weregularly monitor the Bank system, will add $200.00 credit to your account just for taking part in our quick 5 question...

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Security FTW

Email I received today: Here is the link to the application: http://alinkonourintranet If you get a prompt for a user id and password, you close the link and start over keep opening and closing the...

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Imgur.com vs Minus.com vs Google+: How Google+ is Winning the Battle Without...

GIFs are everywhere. The short attention spans of the internet-going public combined with better network speeds and higher bandwith has made the GIF a perfect medium for conveying short bursts of...

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