Windows

http://wix.sourceforge.net/ tools to build MSI packages based on XML scenario files

http://fasterdata.es.net/TCP-tuning/ Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link, i.e. the situation when you normally use specialized networking hardware (read: cisco)

http://tigervnc.org/ likely to be a replacement for tightvnc (better performance )

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pwn2own-mac-hack,2254.html Charlie Miller is the one who broke in to up2date fully patched mac in about 1 minute and won (macbook air ) in the latest Pwn2Own content. Good read if you have 20 minutes.

http://www.dalun.com/wix/06.15.2005.htm msiexec /i product.msi /L*v log.txt

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=883380 well, if getting some weird errors from OWA after you (or some app you have installed ) messed IIS config – you can re-install OWA, re-create all owa directories w/out touching exchange installation itself

http://blog.subaquatic.net/archives/virtualbox-p2v-success/ If you need to P2V your windoze install into virtual box vm – you can follow a true-hacker way [http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=1404

http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/414 have u ever tried to get unicode ouput in windows console? You need to change console font to TrueType a and “C:>chcp 65001” i.e. change windows code page. Read the link if you want those changes to be permanent

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555092 Apache authentication against AD (via Kerberos). Really easy to do, but make sure you put your kerberos real all in UPPER CASE, i.e. MYDOMAIN.COM. If you are using something like MYDOMIAN, then put it into config as MYDOMAIN.LOCAL

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/magazine/dd228986.aspx tehcnet article on providing authentication against AD using samba/winbind