Removing Windows Search 4.0 Without It Showing Up in the Add / Remove Programs Control Panel

With Microsoft’s recent release of Windows Search 4.0 for Windows XP, a number of users who had it installed complained about their system becoming rather slow and they wanted the old search functionality returned.  In most cases, a simple uninstall via Add/Remove Programs restored the search functionality to its previous incarnation, but in one particular

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Fedora (with Gnome) and VMWare Workstation 6.5 = keyboard trouble

This didn’t happen for me with previous versions of Fedora or previous version of VMWare Workstation, but it seems to have happened to others at varying times.  This problem came about for me when I upgraded to Fedora 10 (I had already been using VMWare Workstation 6.5 with no issues). I have Windows XP running

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Openvpn + Windows = One Awesome VPN Setup (Quick and Easy!)

While at a previous employer, I came across an interesting article in the now-defunct SysAdmin magazine which covered, soup-to-nuts, setting up a rather basic OpenVPN server and NSIS-based Windows client package. It wasn’t long before I got hip deep in to customizing the Windows installer NSI script, and tweaking the server configuration. Eventually, I configured

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