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Mike's Personal Home Page in TCM, University of Cambridge

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I now work at the Albert Einstein Institute and before that at DAMTP, Chemistry and some other nice places.

Misc

epstopdf a little utility, written in Perl, for converting from eps to pdf (I've added a couple of options to it).
shopping list generating spreadsheet that creates the actual list on the right from the long list of possible items on the left, you just specify how much of each you want..
Talks

Hardware

How to take a Sony Vaio laptop (notebook) PCG-5426 apart to replace the Hard Disk Drive.
External USB hard disk drive (HDD) use with Linux - use FAT 32 and mkdosfs
usb flash memory stick partition and format with linux
hardware disk controllers for RAID with linux. Performance, stability, Suse9.1, Redhat ES3, Adaptec 2120S, LSI Megaraid, aacraid.
fibre patch cables howto

UNIX

OSX

Web

Windows

Notes about Windows and Password Security
My favourite registry hacks for managing windows computers using a samba domain
Command line install of Cygwin and sshd packages
SSHD on Windows with Cygwin
Multi-network configuration management with Windows 2000 and XP (Pro and Home)
Windows boot CD creation
Lots of nice Windows (windows) registry hacking things that are useful
To download regclean.exe right click on this link and choose "save as". regclean.exe is useful for cleaning the registry on Windows 2000 computers. M$ do not support it for Win XP, but I have used it happily for XP computers - thus far - although you do use this program at your own risk!
Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) (3.5) is now available without charge for download from M$. This is a self-extracting zip archive and only available for download within cam.ac.uk
Security Options for Anonymous Acccess to File Share on Windows Server 2003 (e.g. print server)
how to remove the mcafee epolicy orchestrator agent from a windows computer (epo agent)
windows update error with windows xp (Error 80072ee2)

Mac OSX

Macs in a Windows Domain

Applications

Netscape twiddles

X11

How to get the touchpad and mouse to work together on a Sony Vaio PCG-Z1RSP Centrino with Redhat Linux 9.0 and X
How to get the screen, touchpad and mouse to work together on a Dell Inspiron 5150 with Redhat Linux 9.0 and X

Annoyance Prevention

Had enough of cold calling and/or unwanted sales calls to your home phone number? Then try the Telephone Preference Service. We have had zero cold callers since we registered. You can also do the same for mail and fax: Mail Preference Service and FAX Preference Service.

A useful list of Preference Services

Misc

LINKS

Email account hacks, hacking, forgotten passwords, password resets, hotmail, gmail, etc.

Where Spam Comes From

A demonstration of local access control with a .htaccess file. The userID is "bob" and the password is "bob".

A link to a file that is serverd from the BIG file area on the webserver: BIG

A demonstration of indexes applied to a local directory with a .htaccess file.

Other things that I do/did

Glandular Fever
My doctoral thesis upon Development of a Muscle Powered Blood Pump
Tango Dancing - yes I like to dance tango. The real tango, NOT the Ballroom one (tango cambridge).
Recipes for cooking, with quite a few of them for Woodcraft Folk
A collection of foot exercises
Sciatica and my personal journey through this nasty thing

Links

The crackpot index