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Remote and Local IP address - determine location

There is way to determine location (on a map) remote IP. Was wondering how to determine user location if I now local IP?
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locahost not working in Chrome and IE with WAMP

I have wamp with php and mysql running, and when i try to access localhost I get: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. the weird thing it works fine in Opera while it ...
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Why local addresses usually start with 192.168? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Why are home networks prefixed with 192.168? Why local network addresses usually are like 192.168.xxx.xxx? Is there any reason they start with 192.168 or is it just a ...
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Portable HTML5 local storage

I've been developing client-side applications using HTML and Javascript, and I've been trying to find a way to automatically save local storage data to a flash drive or other storage device. Is it ...
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Trying to use BIND on macos lion to set up .local TLD and am hopelessly lost

I am trying to achieve what has basically been asked in this question: http://superuser.com/questions/403662/bind-dns-settings-on-mac-os-x-lion-errors-in-zone-file e.g. I need to set up a TLD of ...
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Characters typed won't appear in the command line when connected via TELNET

On Windows XP, I changed the localecho field by setting it to ON, but after I quit telnet and make a connection in the command line, the localecho field is set again to OFF. Anyone know how to handle ...
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GitX: reset master to here

I'm using GitX to work with a Git repository for a project. Somehow, things got out of sync and although I can pull the latest changes, I can't commit anything because it thinks there is an unresolved ...
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How to turn back to local computer accounts on Windows 7

I have made VPN connection configuration on local computer. After reboot logon screen lost user accounts. Default Administrator account works fine with Administrator username with empty password, but ...
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How to cache windows share locally

My IT department provides me with space on a file share on a server, which is backed up. Ideally I would like to work straight out of this directory because then backups are not my responsibility. ...
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Can I run a tool like Nmap from a remote machine to pentest on my local Network?

Can I set up a backtrack system at home to connect to and remotely use tools like nmap on whatever network I'm in locally?
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Linux init local socket with '@'

I have experience with using local named and network sockets in C, but on Linux (Fedora 14), using GNOME system monitor, I notice that a local socket, being used by the init process, has the path ...
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Local network accessible but not internet via ethernet card (happens in Windows AND Ubuntu (dual boot) on same machine). What has happened to card?

I have a desktop PC with a 1Gb ethernet card as well as a built-in motherboard 100mb/s ethernet card. Very recently, internet access using these has stopped working. Initially I thought it was a ...
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Domain user not having admin rights on local machine

I'm using Windows 2003 server as active directory and Windows 7 as a station. I need to have a regular domain user have admin rights on local machine. I added domain user to local admin group but they ...
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What does “ :: ” mean in my connections ? (“TCP local address :: port 49157”)

It says: TCP local address :: port 49157 remote port N/A etc. status listen There are several connections listed under svchost.exe, services.exe, Issas.exe, wininit.exe, system. I have no ...
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does Spotify play a local file if it exists?

If I have a local copy of a song, does Spotify still stream it or play the local copy? Or does it choose the one with higher quality of the two? By local copy, I mean a MP3 that I ripped from disc or ...
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“bind” DNS server and considering “/etc/hosts”

in my LAN I use a small machine as server/gateway (with Ubuntu 10.04). On this server runs bind9 DNS server and all LAN clients are using it as unique DNS. Everything works ok, except that I'd like to ...
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How do I open a local file through Remote Desktop?

Is it possible to open a file in a Remote Desktop session locally? For example, I have a Word document in the remote session and want to open directly to local without downloading. Would this be ...
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How do I run a local web-facing server?

I have a LAN with computers connected to various switches and hubs. I want to trasform one of my computers into a web server and I would like to have access to that computer from the internet. Would ...
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Thunderbird portable Searches multiple mail boxes

I have a portable installation of Thunderbird 3 (WinXP) with my old archive with four local mail boxes. I would like to search in all mail boxes at same time, but I can't do it. I havealready enabled ...
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What is the difference between a link local address and an IP address in the private address space?

I read that a link local address is used when no other method for acquiring one is found. But the address space for them doesn't seem to be reserved under private address space, what is the ...
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Check if a folder is on a shared or local disk?

How can I check if some folder in Linux is on a shared disk or a local disk?
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maillist to (local) NNTP server gateway

Does anybody know a maillist to (local) NNTP gateway software? Some maillist systems like Mailman provide to interface the maillist they manage with (a) NNTP (system). This of course can be configured ...
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How to get access to user\APPDATA\LOCAL folder in Windows 7

We are building an application for Windows 7 that creates some data files that the user will occasionally want to review and a log file that we might need for support. Our first version is writing ...
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How to temporarily disable a service running as Local System?

I am using Windows 7 and want to temporarily shutdown a service running as Local System. I am looking for a way to do it without having to reboot into Safe Mode but had no luck (even searching Google) ...
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search solution for local files

Edit: how does voidtools compare with google desktop, and with windows 7 native spotlight search. I want to have a convenient solution on windows where I can search through all my offline documents ...
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Is it possible to SCP from a remote to local whilst logged into the remote and without knowing the local's IP address?

I regularly find myself wanting to copy a file from remote terminal session to my local machine. Usually I log out of the remote session and call an scp transfer from local to copy the file from ...
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Why are all the DNS names on my network pointing to Amazon AWS?

Whenever I try to access other computers on my network, it fails to connect. If I ping the computer names (for example, "ping fileserver"), it always shows this: Pinging ...
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What is the difference between hostname suffixes .local and .lan?

Why do other computers on my home network sometimes resolve as xyz.local and other times as xyz.lan ? I have a NAS device that shows up in Safari Bonjour bookmarks as xyz.local. I've copied a direct ...
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sync Nevernote (Evernote clone) notes to my own server

Supposedly, it used to be possible to sync Evernote notes to your own server. I would like to use the open source clone NeverNote, to sychronize to my own server. Is there a way of doing this? Here ...
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How do I forward my local port on Mac OS?

I'm developing a website on my local server on my Mac. So only computers on my local network can access the site right now right? How do I set up a port forward so that my friends on other computers ...
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Running git on shared host

I have a non-sudo account on a shared host. I want to be able to run the git-core for version control. I have another server that I am using for the git-repo. How can I install a version of git ...
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Using NetBeans for pure HTML/JS/CSS development

Is it possible to use NetBeans to create HTML/JS/CSS projects which can be run by a local web browser instead of a full PHP project which has to be passed through an interpreter?
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How can I remove data from local SVN repository?

I accidentally committed a whole bunch of binary files using TortoiseSVN's "Add folder" option when I should have used simply "Create folder". I do not want these binary files in SVN because they hog ...
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hosted OCS and my local Active Directory

I plan to use hosted BPOS for collaboration but i want my OCS and SharePoint Online integrated with my local Active Directory. Is this possible and if so, how can i do this?
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Complete backup of online email account w/ easy future offline access?

I have an old school email account that is expiring in a couple of months, which supports IMAP and POP3. I would like to make a complete offline backup of all my email in that account, ideally with ...
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WiFi: Internet doesn't work, local network does

I have a problem with the Internet connection thru WiFi. Some time ago I had reinstalled OS (XP Sp3) on a notebook (Samsung R560 with a WLAN adapter that's specified as 'Intel 802.11a/b/g/n 1x2 ...
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Outlook 2003 : How to export all e-mail messages in local folder?

I want to export some local message folders to zip & send to my colleague in outlook 2003, is it possible?
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Howto disable SSH local port forwarding?

I have a server running Ubuntu and the OpenSSH daemon. Let's call it S1. I use this server from client machines (let's call one of them C1) to do an SSH reverse tunnel by using remote port ...
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hostnames on the local domain help

I just changed to a router from the BT business one that had a gateway of gateway.2wire.net. With the new router, I now cannot access the linux machines on the network using the "hostname" syntax but ...
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Pass data through another computer

I wounder if it's possible to send data through another computer, I have two computers in my local network and one of them is connected to the internet, I wounder if it possible to use this internet ...
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Modify Audit object acces policy

I'm trying to automate this step on a local network that's not included in a domain. I've tried using auto-it but had little luck with that. Is there any way of doing this using a batch script or ...
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Open local files on Safari

I would like to know if there is a way (i.e. plugin) to open local files on Safari as i am used to do with FF or IE. Suggestions anyone? EDIT: I do not want to open the file using "Open->File", but i ...
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How do I access local computers through a network switch?

I have a switch connecting several computers with my ISP. All the computers gets external IPs from my ISP. When tracing the route between two of the computers the traffic always passes through my ISP ...
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Phantom Local Disks appearing in my drive list

I seem to have several phantom Local Disks mapped to different letters that are of 0 bytes in size. Strangely, they do not show up when I view my drives through Windows Explorer. But if I open an ...
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Map IP address to localhost (locally) under Windows 7

So basically I want to map the IP address 1.2.3.4 to localhost. So that when I browse to: 1.2.3.4/somepage.html It will fetch: 127.0.0.1/somepage.html Does anyone know how I could go about doing ...
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Local User Login Script Fedora Linux

How do I allow a login script for one user in fedora? ~/.initrc doesn't seem to work, and I tried adding an executable to /etc/init.d but that's for all users (and it didnt work either anyway).
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Local Area Connection in Slacware 13

I have windows xp and slackware 13 on one computer, and the ISP provided me a new modem. There was manual how to configure it, so i start the web browser and typed it's ip address 192.168.1.1 and the ...
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How to choose a sensible local domain name for a home network?

Is there any convention on possible naming for local domain names (like .local), apart from not using any possible or existing top-level domain? Wikipedia says that .local conflicts with zeroconf ...
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How does Router know where to forward packet

If several computers with local addresses (192.168.0.#) are connected to a router and each computer opens a web browser and requests a page over HTTP, when these TCP:80 packets are sent out, the ...
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Dropbox alternative with local sync support?

I am currently using Dropbox. Just decided to sync my huge (about 5 GB) iTunes Library (music collection) in Dropbox. For that I must subscribe to their paid account. But before I do so, I'd like ...

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