How To Clear / Remove the GUID Partition Table (GPT) from a drive

If a drives has a GPT (GUID Parition Table) on it, Windows 7 and Linux will happily use it.  HOWEVER, all of the add-on tools to format a partition on that drive as fat32 (for those that are using large drives) do not understand that partition table type. To clear the GPT entirely from a

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Windows 7 and Squid via NTLM authentication via Samba

Getting Windows 7 to talk to a squid proxy server which uses ntml authentication via samba can be a little tricky. Control Panel -> System and Security -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy -> Local Policy -> Security Options Find “Network security: LAN Manager authentication level ” and set it to: Send LM & NTLM responses Find

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