Category: Windows
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Remember “In the Trenches”? That’s How I Learned of LOPSA #lfnw
I chatted with a few of the guys at the LOPSA booth and mentioned that I first learned about LOPSA by listening to Kevin Devin’s In the Trenches podcast. This Friends In Tech show was insightful, informative and inspiring in that it presented intelligent and professional discussion about the profession of system administration, not merely…
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Tail the Latest Log File
I’m grateful for Cygwin. I wouldn’t know how to do this in cmd–though I should probably learn how to do it in PoSH. find LogFiles/W3SVC1 -type f | xargs ls -1tr | tail -n1 | xargs tail -F I need to make it an alias now….
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XP System Does a Dodge Monaco Ka-Boom!
Apparently, the Dodge Monaco was the cop car in the Blues Brothers movie that served Ellwood so well. It came to a catastrophic end, of course. My mom just had her seven year old Dell do a Dodge Monaco Boom on her: > I’m very glad that I kept the old machine running all the…
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64 Bit Windows Filesystem Voodoo
I was really baffled by why I couldn’t find a file in my editor. This article explained why. I ended up copying it out of that location, editing it, and copying it back.
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Love Visual Studio, Crashes!
Moving the Call Stack window while debugging was crashing VS2009. Luckily, there was a KB article about it.
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What Every C# Dev Needs to Know About Dates
There’s a big difference in what a M, MM, MMM, and MMMM mean in a date format. Also, you can say: String.Format( “{0:yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss}”, DateTime.Now ) to convert a .Net date into a MySQL format date, without needing to pass a format string to the DateTime.ToString() method.
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Search Highlighting in VS 2008
I found a way to highlight search results in Visual Studio 2008, using the RockScroll add-in. I still miss the Highlighter plugin in jEdit, tho.
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Are Two SSDs Worth It?
I was just pricing out components for a Windows 7 system for a Photoshop user. My idea was to have two SSD drives, one for the boot drive, a second for ssd for photoshop scratch, and a 1TB drive for finished work. A Core i5 system with 8GB ram seems to price out at $2000,…
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Diffed and Merged…and Ported
“Hard at it,” is how you’d describe me these days. I’ve really learned a lot about programming C# in the last three weeks. There’s some stuff I like, even. I’m still, rather instinctively, feeling hesitant to praise Microsoft for anything…but it’s melting. Consider this latest Tools episode from The Commandline podcast. Thomas Gideon describes a…
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Well, the Microsoft has Landed on the Jed
I spent all day getting my workstation to build a set of pretty intense C# projects. I’m impressed that we got it working in a day (not counting the four days it took to straighten out my Visual Studio install on my Vista workstation). Having developed projects in Perl, PHP, Java and C, and having…
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