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Recover lost photos with PhotoRec

Posted on August 21, 2012 by erictummers

My neighbour accidently deleted all photos on the camera without having them transfered to the harddisk. The SD card was never used before and the card was not formatted after deleting all photos. This should be recoverable. From lifehacker.com I … Continue reading →

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Installation of Tfs Express and why I love tfspreview.com

Posted on August 20, 2012 by erictummers

Pratice what you preach. My advice is to add unittests with codecoverage to your (daily) build and make sure it’s above the threshold. To pratice this I installed Tfs Express this weekend. The installation was straight forward next-next-finish. But then … Continue reading →

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Recovery

Posted on July 28, 2012 by erictummers

The hard disk of my laptop died on me last week. Since I’ve ordered a new machine (see previous post) I wanted my system up-and-running without too much effort. An old disk fixed the hardware issue, now the software recovery. … Continue reading →

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Choose Your Own

Posted on July 21, 2012 by erictummers

My boss lets me choose my own device to work with. Given a budget, some basic rules, two default configurations and this employee is happy. But now the hard part: what do I choose? Most of the time I’m using … Continue reading →

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Sniff localhost

Posted on June 23, 2012 by erictummers

My WCF services are using basic authentication over https. To prove this is a safe combination I wanted to sniff the trafic between client and host. Problem is a tool like Wireshark cannot sniff localhost. You’ll find good explanation why … Continue reading →

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