Monthly Archives: September 2015

Serial Ports Available for PuTTY on Windows

The popular PuTTY terminal emulator has built-in support for serial port console sessions. Unfortunately PuTTY doesn’t seem to provide a way to list currently available serial ports within the GUI. A feature like this would be extremely useful with USB … Continue reading

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Extra Ctrl+Alt+Del Prompt for User PKI in Internet Explorer

There is a Group Policy for Internet Explorer users who receive a prompt like this: “I want to complete this action by entering my credentials on the authentic Windows logon screen” followed by “CTRL ALT DEL to enter your details.” … Continue reading

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Automatic Web Proxy Configuration

Automatic Web Proxy Configuration is useful on networks where end-user Internet access is required to pass through a proxy server. The technologies for Proxy Auto Config (PAC) and Web Proxy Auto-Detect (WPAD) were developed before the year 2000 by companies … Continue reading

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