According to Microsoft, “Snap is a quick (and fun) new way to resize open windows, simply by dragging them to the edges of your screen. Depending on where you drag a window, you can make it expand vertically, take up the entire screen, or appear side-by-side with another window…” This feature poses a problem for those who would drag their…
Read More »Manipulating files (copying, pasting, moving, etc.) on a network share presents an annoying little Windows Security window. These files might be harmful to your computer. Your Internet security settings suggest that one or more files may be harmful. Do you want to use it anyway? Pressing OK will get past this window and allow one to proceed. However this extra…
Read More »This article will demonstrate how to merge 11 editions of Microsoft Windows 7 onto a single-layer DVD. Except for the Enterprise edition which is not available to the general public, each edition of Microsoft Windows 7 DVD contains all available editions (Starter (available for x86 only) , Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate), however, is locked into a single…
Read More »Years ago, I had hacked up various pieces of code to create a variant to the event logs backup scripts that are floating around the internet. There is a script that I have seen that comes with (at least) the Windows Perl releases. This is an updated script for use with Perl and Windows to backup event logs. The differences…
Read More »Adobe updates their products in relatively frequent and regular intervals. Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader is no stranger to this practice. Since the launch of Adobe Reader 9.0 in 2008 and as of this writing, there has been 15 updates to that product alone. For some users, the automatic update feature is sufficient. If you are in an environment where…
Read More »Plagued throughout the internet are the users of Windows 7 whom had attempted to install the service pack 1. However, the installation fails with error code c0000034 and the inability to use the computer. There are many different solutions that seem to exist, however, one has been more successful than the others by a user named thiswoot. Basically,the goal is…
Read More »There is a plugin called WP-Ratings. It has worked well over the years until recently. It may have been as a result of a WordPress upgrade. Whatever the cause, WP-Ratings failed to work. The symptoms is that the rating stars were visible, until the user clicked on them. The ratings would become invisible or blank and result in an error…
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Many WordPress users have enjoyed WordPress using an Internet host provider or on an XAMPP installation on a Windows installation. This exercise is a combination of several guides with some personal tweaks to install WordPress 3.5.1 on a fresh install of of CentOS 5/6 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5/6 using PHP 5.2.4+. Install Packages Using yum install MySQL,…
Read More »There was a need to determine the number of processes that was running on a Linux installation, specifically CentOS 5.6. I can’t find the source of this again, however, did use Google to find this information. Anyway, here is the command line needed. This command returned the desired results. The result will be a number, the number of processes that…
Read More »A command line script was needed to backup the systemstate of Windows 2003 domain controller with the builtin Microsoft NTBackup utility called ntbackup.exe. The thebackroomtech has a respectable example of such a script from which I have created a modified version to better suit our requirements. This script was created to backup a Windows 2003 domain controller systemstate. To break…
Read More »Recently created a WordPress theme where I wanted rounded corners around text boxes, buttons, and forms. Being not too patient with the creation of little corner images to satisfy this requirement within Internet Explorer, I decided to use the -moz-border-radius within the stylesheet. The drawback is that this -moz-border-radius will only work within Mozilla based Internet explorers and not the…
Read More »With just over a year of what I would consider normal use, I discovered that my phone, the Blackberry Storm 9530 was no longer capable of producing sound through the built-in loud speaker. As I have learned with this phone, that a hard reboot, caused by the removal of the battery, generally repairs any problem that I have encountered in…
Read More »Outlook on Vista or Windows 7 is either too small or offscreen. The icon appears at the bottom, and only a right-click and “maximize” will it appear, fully maximized. If I click “restore”, it disappears. I want to be able to size the window and move it around the screen. Rebooting/restarting does not help. The above was paraphrased from a…
Read More »This guide will detail the upgrade of the Java Development Kit (JDK) on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.54 and CentOS 5.5 operating system. This example is accomplished through the use of PuTTY and XMing. In our example the following guide was used to install the original JAVA JDK. Install Java and Set Environment Variables Download JDK6 Note: The…
Read More »For years the practice had been to backup the website using the Full Backup functionality from within CPanel. It has worked valently until recently. Recent backup attempts would proceed as usual and upon completion send out an email alerting the administrator that the backup had succesfully completed. However, the backup did not successfully complete. The backup was far from complete….
Read More »To find a rare record is difficult enough. To find an image of one is almost as difficult to find as the record itself. To find an image worth using can prove to be as difficult as finding the original record itself. In some cases, it is possible to create a mockup of an extremely rare record while maintaining the…
Read More »Being relatively novice to SVN, I needed to backup a recent installation. I found a couple of great scripts that was described for Linux, however, will work for Windows with additional software that is described in this article. Dump the repository to a file. Or dump the repository to a compressed file. This requires gzip for Windows. Or dump the…
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