Entries Tagged as 'Thrifty Computing'

Recovering deleted Windows files with DiskDigger

shovel1DiskDigger is a windows only application geared toward recovering deleted documents or multimedia files from USB drives, memory cards and harddrives. The types of files that it recovers include photos, music, videos and many other formats.
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implementing self-signed certs on multiple sites – windows

There’s a way to implement multiple self-signed certs on windows server, over many sites, using a shared IP; however, there’s a bit of a trick in doing this. The IIS6.0 toolkit contains something called SelfSSL, which is capable of creating self-signed certificates but there’s a catch. Its got a bug when it comes to using it for more than one site…
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Manage OpenPGP Keys

cpanel The Manage OpenPGP Keys Menu allows you to add public and private GnuPG keys to your account. GnuPG is a publicly available encryption scheme that uses the “public key” approach. With GnuPG, messages are encrypted using a “public key” however, they can only be decrypted by a “private key”, which is retained by the intended recipient of the message.
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cPanel Network Tools

cpanel Network Tools allow you to find out information about any domain, or to trace the route from the server your site is hosted on to the computer you are accessing your cPanel from. Finding out information about a domain can be very useful in making sure your DNS is set up correctly as you will find out information about your IP addres as well as your DNS.
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cPanel’s Hotlink Protection Plan

Hotlink protection stops other websites from linking to files, such as images, videos and other files, that are on your website. Other sites will still be able to link to any file type that you don’t block. If another site links to your images, videos and other files they’ll be using your bandwidth to display those files rather than their own.
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