097.2%20Maximum%20PC%200-2-2006.pdf
SPECIAL ISSUE SUMMER 2006

Rip Perfect MP3s

WHAT YOU’LL NEED
An audio CD
Exact Audio Copy (free, www.exactaudiocopy.de)
https://web.archive.org/web/20090710072542/http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/eac-0.99pb5.exe Version from around the time the article was published.
LAME encoder (free, http://mitiok.cjb.net, http://www.rarewares.org)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060612201440/http://mitiok.maresweb.org/lame-3.97b.zip Version from around the time the article was published.

Do you listen to audio CDs in your CD-ROM drive, or carry a portable CD player while you jog? Of course not. You rip your audio CDs to MP3, and then transfer the files to your hard drive, your MP3 player, and your laptop. Because ripping audio files is quite pedestrian these days, you probably know how to do it. But do you know how to do it the Maximum PC way? Here’s how to rip audio files so they’ll sound as good as uncompressed WAV files.

STEP1 | DOWNLOAD EAC AND LAME
Exact Audio Copy is our favorite tool for ripping audio CDs because it’s dead accurate, produces flawless rips, and warns you of the presence of potential problems—think skips, clicks, or pops. It’s not the fastest solution, but we’ll trade accuracy for speed every time. Download EAC. Next, download the open-source LAME MP3 encoder, so you can encode your ripped files. Unzip both programs into the same folder on your hard drive.

STEP2 | INSTALL EAC
EAC’s setup wizard will automatically start when you install the program. Choose the option “I prefer to have accurate results.” Skip the step to install and configure LAME by removing the checkmark— we’ll install it later. You have to enter an email address in the next screen to gain access to the Freedb CD database, which will automatically populate your MP3s with artist, album, and track-name info. Choose the option labeled “I’m an expert…” and click Finish.

STEP3 | Configure EAC
Choose “EAC options” from the EAC menu. Deselect the option labeled “Lock drive tray….” so you can open the drive tray should EAC hang on a scratched CD. Leave the other options at their defaults. Click the Tools tab and place a checkmark next to “On extraction, start the external compressors…” (EAC will read the next track while the compressor is working on the previous track, speeding up the ripping process). Click OK.

STEP4 | COMPRESS AND ENCODE
Choose “Compression options” from the EAC menu and click the External Compression tab. Place a checkmark next to “Use external program for compression,” choose “Use Defined Encoder” from the drop-down menu, browse to the folder where you downloaded LAME, and click lame.exe. We’re going to encode our MP3s using variable bit rate (VBR), and we want LAME to write metadata (artist, track title, etc.) to the ID3 tags, so type this exact text into the “Additional command line options” field:

Ignore the rest of the options here, but click the ID3 Tag tab and remove any checkmarks. Click OK.

STEP5 | RIP AWAY!
Now you’re ready to start ripping. Drop a CD into your optical drive and give EAC a moment to download information about it from Freedb. In the main EAC window, choose the tracks you wish to rip and then click the MP3 icon in the vertical toolbar. Browse to the folder where you want the files stored and click Save.

MAXIMUM PC | 17

isread:no
importance:high
hasattachments:yes

And if you are looking for the full list: try here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-to-search-in-outlook-d824d1e9-a255-4c8a-8553-276fb895a8da

When looking to host your site on a Content Delivery Network, there are a few questions as to how it works. With some providers, you are supplied a CNAME that utilizes anycast to resolve to a different IP depending on where in the world you are:

As an aside, due to the above behavior, a large file pulled through the CDN may hit numerous POPS. If each POP is configured to then pull the full file from the hosted origin, you can incur a LOT of traffic. Think a 44GB video file was rough, image paying for it being transferred 120 times just for one person to watch it. You’re frontloading the content, but still, that’s a lot of data. I digress.
With that, sure, you can resolve the www CNAME to the supplied address. You then ask yourself how do I point my root domain to the CDN. If you use your locally resolved IP address and 301 redirect to the www. CNAME, you only incur the one call to the particular IP. But what if you want the root domain to leverage the abilities of the CDN? You cannot simply point the root domain to the CNAME, that’s bad juju: http://serverfault.com/questions/430970/cname-for-top-of-domain
In the case of other CDN providers, you use their Name Servers, and it is at these nameservers that root domain flattening occurs. That is to say that they perform the resolution at the name server and send out that IP addresses in response to the lookup. This comes with caveats as well. The flattening CloudFlare utilizes gives the TTL the highest value found, not the lowest as you may expect. See here: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169056-CNAME-Flattening-RFC-compliant-support-for-CNAME-at-the-root
https://gist.github.com/cben/012c1fdbbb69d76cedaf

If you need to reset the ColdFusion Administrator Password for ColdFusion 10 or ColdFusion 11, it is much easier than previous versions.

Windows

From the machine running ColdFusion, browse to cf_root/bin, in this case I am in

or

Right click on

and choose Run as administrator to ensure proper permissions during runtime. Enter 1 to change the password. Enter in the new password, and then re enter it to confirm. If not using RDS, you can leave the entry blank for the next two submissions, otherwise fill the RDS password in on both entries. Restart the ColdFusion Application Server and try to login. You may need to restart your browser to clear any cached session aspects that may cause issues.

Linux

SSH into the machine running ColdFusion. Navigate to cf_root/bin, in this case I am using

or

and run

Enter 1 to change the password. Enter in the new password, and then re enter it to confirm. If not using RDS, you can leave the entry blank for the next two submissions, otherwise fill the RDS password in on both entries. Restart the ColdFusion Application Server and try to login. You may need to restart your browser to clear any cached session aspects that may cause issues.

open task manager
go to services tab
right click on Synergy
start running the service

Yup, thats it. Thanks to http://superuser.com/questions/555137/synergy-server-doesnt-work for the help!

ColdFusion needs to be limited, or in certain cased, granted more access, in the case of NAS shares, etc.

Defaults:
https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/running-coldfusion-specific-user.html

Way too open, give the user full control of:

“WebDocument Directory
c:\cfusion or c:\cfusionmx (and all subdirectories)
c:\winnt
c:\winnt\system32”

Okay, web root seems fine, the ColdFusion install directory seems fine. My OS installation folder, is not fine by me.

The first two give me a majority of what is needed, with few asides for other softwares:

Accounting for Fusion Reactor:
http://docs.intergral.com/display/FR455/Installing+FusionReactor+in+Locked+Down+Environments

I did find another person talking about the matter:
http://jochem.vandieten.net/2008/04/06/windows-file-permissions-for-the-coldfusion-account/

But they include ripping out existing permissions.

https://books.google.com/books?id=rI0OZhmcuc0C&pg=PT382&lpg=PT382&dq=Running+ColdFusion+as+a+specific+user&source=bl&ots=imQn_gDv_q&sig=QfRQ3DCqXzCNZ-sgcufo7iVtpxc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-kMPvsKfKAhWGdj4KHQ7lAAsQ6AEIPTAE#v=onepage&q=Running%20ColdFusion%20as%20a%20specific%20user&f=false

Spoke to a coworker, the idea to add the ColdFusion user to the IIS_Users group which would inherently add permissions to the web locations.  Clean and direct, I like it.

KeePass and You, Scheming the PC

KeePass (Professional Edition, I am using the 2 version Portable Package) is a phenomenal tool, that can save you insurmountable amounts of time if configured well.  I have taken the time to use it for numerous schemes and desktop environments to have it work best for me.  Find my learned results below:

Web (http and https schemes)

Chrome Browser Integration

chromeIPass
Url in title

Firefox browser Integration

KeeFox

URL Overrides

The following section shows many helpful setups.  In order to add a URL override in KeePass 2, click on Tools -> Options and navigate to the Integration Tab.  Click on URL Overrides… to bring up the following screen:

As you can see, all of the below mentioned are shown in my configuration.  To use any override that calls a non browser application, highlight the entry and press Ctrl + U to initiate it.

putty.exe (ssh scheme)

Add putty.exe to system path

“To the Control Panel System tab then. In the Control Panel, System Properties, select the Environment Variables button at the bottom: and then select Path in the System Variables section, and press the Edit button. This set the path variables to include the PuTTY program directory in the search path.”  In some cases, it may be System, then Advanced system settings.

Enumerate Active Connections on port 1433:

Count Active Connections on port 1433:

To Enumerate and Count Active Connections on port 1433 and 443

If you need a list of all users crontab tasks, run this as root:

will loop over each user name listing out their crontab. The crontabs are owned by the respective users so you won’t be able to see another user’s crontab w/o being them or root.

–[edit] if you want to know, which user does a crontab belong to insert echo $user

As a side note, this doesn’t work when the users are defined in NIS or LDAP. You need to use

I have also seen this bash script that supposedly takes into account displaying other crons, (including the scripts launched by run-parts in /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily, etc.) and the jobs in the /etc/cron.d.

I have not thoroughly tested this script, I ran it once on my server, I found it here.

Find all symbolic links on a linux OS:

Or if you want to output it to a file: