Tag: Windows
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Robocopy Notes
Install cmder: It’s the nicest shell I’ve seen for windows. Run your console as Administrator. Otherwise you can’t use the /B backup switch. Also rember you need to do a net use command as administrator. Before you robocopy stuff, setup a dedicated drive letter. The drive letter is only available to the logged in session.…
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Windows OEM License
So it turns out you can destroy a windows virtual host really quickly, just by moving it from one host system to another host. This is something I’ve done with Linux virtual hosts many times, and it seems like an intrinsic way to manage resources. But not with Windows. They really expect you to take…
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SourceForge is making Open Source Look Like a Scam
Not only when I download something from SourceForge these days am I presented a proxy-downloader that tries to sell me on installing some unsolicited system utility — like a browser home page take over — it manages to install some other bullshit system utilities as well. Holy shit. This is not the Sourceforge I used…
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Hang this Poster in your Office
flyer_xp-to-xubuntu_USletter.png PNG Image, 765 × 990 pixels – Scaled 79%.
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Translating Filenames — Bash Voodoo Style #linux
This is an example of using Bash to convert a crazy apache log and translating the filename into an IIS log pattern: d=`date +%Y%m%d` find k -type f \ | while read filename do nextfile=”${filename/k\/done?0.www\./k2/www-Server_T${d}_}.log” echo “$nextfile” cat $filename | $translate > “$nextfile” done I love how I can refer to a shell variable ($d)…
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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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