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to setup. seriously, the requirements are silly :p and DNS is annoying, but i guess thats because i have limited knowledge of setting up DNS on a linux system. once you get it going, its a great little app, ive found nothing like it, if i had, i probly would have tried it out already since zimbra took me about a week to get working, and that was only on a test server, now i have to install it on the live server, it should be ok though, its the same OS, the only thing different is the hardware/IP & network, hopefully i wont have too much trouble with that, ive already replicated the DNS records and need to wait for them to resolve. also need to figure out how to get a firewall up and running, because zimbra uses a shitload of ports.

in other news i may shortly be shutting this blog down, or at least removing some of the posts (mostly the emo ones). i may take the time to do a

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So ive recently been stufying rsync mauals and guides etc because im using it to backup up a webserver, so i thought i'd post a few tips that have helped me be less confused about the whole thing, when it comes to error messages etc :p

The destination folder on the remote server must be owned by remote user account that is being used to login via rsync, chmod permissions must also be at least write, 775 (for folders) & 644 (for files) is probly the best idea.

It doesnt matter what user is running rsync on the local system (rsync doesnt have to run as root on the local system, it only has to have read permissions to the files it wants to send via rsync), usernames do not have to be the same.

The only thing that matters is that the remote user account that is being used to login via rsync has read/write permissions to the appropriate directories.

its not

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Welcome to what is probably the last article in this series. lets get started :p

So, so far so good, its mostly acting like XP :p next we're going to disable and remove libraries intergration. I prefer real folders.

Download these reg tweaks and apply them, then logoff or reboot for changes to take effect.

Disable Libraries in Windows 7 (removes the libraries).
Remove Library Context Menus (removes the library related context menus)

Now i know this doesnt disable intergration completely, i still need to find a way to remove it from the save dialog.

A few more little tweaks.

Once after rebooting i noticed a new icon on my desktop that wouldnt go away and didnt

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Hello! and welcome to the third installment of 72XP!

Today's post is about hacking explorer and the start menu so lets get going :p 

It took me a REALLY long time to find a decent replacment for this, the ones i did find were either buggy, had hardly any features or cost a stupid amount of money ($30 for a menu app?!).

I have eventually settled on True Launch Bar, this app isnt free, it is shareware and has a demo version, the paid for version costs around $15, i went for this option because at the time, the only alternatives were REALLY poor, or expensive. I use this in conjuction with "start killer" which removes the original start menu so that the true launch menu can take its place, TLB really

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Now for the next installment of 72xp, were going to make some GUI changes.

The superbar seems to be a pretty good idea, as in the idea of pinning items it, sortof like an advanced quicklaunch. pinning things to the start menu isnt really all that new though. now for me, i prefer my quicklaunch to just do one thing, launch stuff, i also prefer to keep it in one place so i know where it is, i only have 2 icoons in there anyway. having an advanced version that combines with the ttaskbar and spreads the whole length of it is just confusing and useless. to get it to act more or less like XP, apply the following tweaks.

First, unpin all the existing items on the superbar by right clicking them and choosing "unpin", Then right click the taskbar/superbar and choose properties, select "lock the taskbar" and "use small icons", this will lock the task bar and make it basically the

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So over the past couple of months ive been attempting to transition from xp to windows 7, but some parts of the interface just bug me, i guess im just used to doing it a certain way in XP. (upgrading from from Windows 98 wasnt a problem all those years ago because XP was a much needed improvement). Sometimes i feel like windows 7 is an upgrade for the sake of an upgrade.

Anyways, after several attempts at trying to get used to the new interface/explorer, i just couldnt. So i set about changing what I didnt like into what i could live with. I will probably continue to tweak and change some other things in 7 as i continue to use it. but for now i thought i'd document my changes into some sort of guide incase anyone else wants to try it So over the next couple of days/weeks

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so ive decided to give up trying to spend time with laura now, i'll just do what she wants. meh. i cba. im sure it'll go in a few days. but meh, im just waiting for her to leave for that other guy now lols.

dad is annoying too i cant wait to move out, asking me if im fucking ok all the effing time, the smelly bastard.

fucking hungry too. stupid life.

lol so i got on the bus this morning and started to find my seat, just as i found 1 and say down i saw a pile of puke in the middle of the isle a few seats back. lol, so as everyone else got on, i saw each person get a few paces before it and then suddenly see it, most of them responded with a shocked face. and pretty much all of them just hesitated on the spot wondering wheather to go back to the front of the bus or try and step over it. pretty much all the old people turned around immediatly with a look of disgust on thier faces and sat at the front of the bus lol. some middle aged people stepped over it and sat at the back, but then eventually got up after a few mins and moved to the front, i guess they didnt want it in thier view lol. twas hilarious watching peoples face change as they saw it and then hessiate, and then the person behind did the same, it was teh funnies.

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yes, this is the post. the one i twittered about. and its happening, its hasnt just started happening, it started about a month ago, i dont even know where she met him, i think probly on some night out at the k.

were drifting apart, or at least it feels like it, shes spending more and more time with chris. and i dont like it. but theres nothing i can do about it, he's a "friend". he's very quite, i just cant work him out.

if i say something she'll get upset and annoyed and seek comfort from her friends. him. and slowly she begins to think that maybe she should be with him and not me. because hes always there for her (when she argues with me, dispite the fact im there for her when she argues with someone else.) and all "we" do is fight. I dont want that.

there was a fairly lengthy time where i thought do i really want this girl? but now, i know for sure, i want this

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anything to make me feel alive. lol, songs.

i wish i had a small table to put alcohol on. also i wish i had a decent keyboard.

sometimes i wish i was 14 again just so i could talk to the people i used to. heh.

in other news, ive ran out of feety drink, lols, im so onto drinking micky finns >.> which reminds me of emma.

speaking of emma, i wished we talked more, i wished my keyboard made less sound so i could hear the music playing, this song reminds me of her (bruche  - that philidelphia song heh ). i wish we were as close as we used to be heh. i guess we both grew up, she seems very mature now lol.

lol this linkin park song reminds me of a girl that i used to speak to in scotland, heh, she had it in her msn name once lol. not a bad song, i think the song is faint.

this cake song reminds me of ripgut, cos he always used to say,

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