Bitvise Tunnelier: a faster alternative to Winscp

I normally like to transfer very big files from my Windows machine to a Linux webserver. In the past I used Winscp and it was painfully slow to transfer even just a 10MB file.

So with a little googling, I found a 'diamond in the rough' by the name Bitvise Tunnelier. Below is a screenshot of one of my file transfers using Bitvise Tunnelier. It was reasonably very fast and the automatic reconnection feature is just one of the many nice features of Bitvise Tunnelier.

You may download it at http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier

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A Joomla 1.5 Hack: How to modify properties of category list layout

For those who are using Joomla 1.5 and they would like to directly manipulate their category list layout. Here is a list of steps to easily do this:

1. Go to {your joomla root directory}\components\com_content\views\category\tmpl\default_items.php


2. Modify the code there to your liking!

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