Years ago, there was a couple of batch files that were floating around the Internet that were designed to defrag and shrink virtual machines created and used by VMware Workstation or VMware Server. Over time, the scripts became a little obsolete in that some of the command line functionality was lost from the removal of a utility, vmware-mount, from newer…
Read More »An older Pentium 4 computer recently had an IDE DVD burner that died. The quick replacement available was a SATA DVD burner. The BIOS recognized the drive, but Windows XP SP3 did not. It turned out to be a quick fix. Go to Device Manager and uninstall the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Right click on My Computer Go to Properties Go…
Read More »Many Linux distributions permit the use of the root user as a primary login, however, the dominant and popular Ubuntu has left some users in a conundrum. In order to perform tasks as a root user, this must be performed within a terminal window with the sudo command. However, here are a set of instructions that will allow the root…
Read More »A production IIS 6.0 server serves secure pages using SSL. To get a development server as close to the production server as possible, the final touch was to add a SSL. Since the SSL is generated for the production server, it cannot be used on the development server. A new SSL is needed. To accomplish this, use SelfSSL 1.0. The…
Read More »There are many plugins that are available to Firefox users that are capable of great many things. In some cases, as is the case of YouTube downloaders, there are many add-on to from which to choose. Not all add-ons are created equally, so to determine which one is best for your particular situation, you may find yourself downloading all the…
Read More »Unlike Windows, Linux can be extremely flexible. Have you ever updated multiple Windows servers. It is a daunting task, even when using an automated approach like WSUS or whatever it is called these days. Linux is easier, however, to log into server, and run a simple command can become time-consuming if there are many servers. I have written a script…
Read More »The usual approach for placing a background image is by placing the background within the body using CSS. No modifications are needed to the HTML file for the background to be displayed. body { margin:0; padding-top:0; background:#777; color:#f3f3f3; font-size:13px; background:url(images/main-bg.gif) repeat fixed; } However, what if instead of a small repeating image, a much larger, single image is desired. In…
Read More »Microsft Word 2007 automatically changes straight quotes to curly quotes. While they may have some esthetic appeal to some, when writing code or scripts that contain quotes, the code is automatically broken. Well not that anyone would use Microsoft Word to write code, however, when documenting your code. There is a fix. It works. Here is an example of curly…
Read More »In a Microsoft Office Word 2007 document it is possible to track modified dates and times from within the document. Instead of manually maintaining a document with a line like Last Modified July 20, 2012, there is built in functionality from within Word that will maintain this date. Launch Microsoft Word and type something like Last Modified. Go to the…
Read More »A case where a Microsoft Windows print server may once existed and a new print server had been put into place; the local workstations that accessed the printer shares of the original print server no longer require those shares. Here is a script to remove all local printers prior to adding new printers. wmic printer where “Local=’FALSE'” delete /nointeractive Source…
Read More »The goal is to copy files from one Linux computer to another Linux computer. The scp command is the command of choice. To get help, type scp –help, the result is the following usage syntax. usage: scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]<br /> [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program]<br /> [[user@]host1:]file1 […] [[user@]host2:]file2 Basic syntax is…
Read More »Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. For one reason or another, the process for sorting text within Notepad++ seems to elude me. Some text editors have a plugin that is easy to identify, well so does Notepad++, when you…
Read More »I know that there is a Julian Day Converter that has been around for years. It, however, is no longer supported. The window can sometimes be a little messy to re-size and it is expressed by dd/mm/yyyy not mm/dd/yyyy for which I am more used to. Well, here is my attempt at a calculator using AutoIt and Koda. This calculator…
Read More »I know that there is a Julian Day Converter that has been around for years. It, however, is no longer supported. The window can sometimes be a little messy to resize and it is expressed by dd/mm/yyyy not mm/dd/yyyy for which I am more used to. Well, here is my attempt at a calculator using AutoIt and Koda. This calculator…
Read More »Sometimes you may copy and paste a web page into an Excel spreadsheet, the result may be a spreadsheet peppered with pictures throughout. Too many to individually delete. There is a way to remove all pictures from a spreadsheet by using a macro. Press ALT F8 to get the Macro box. Type in a name and edit it. Copy and…
Read More »After cloning a Microsoft SQL 2000 Server into a virtual machine and renaming the server, the scheduled Jobs no longer worked. Essentially, the reason is that the jobs were created while using a server with a different server name. The SQL Server will act as if the job originated on a master server, and will not allow changes to that…
Read More »To convert numbers like 1, 10, 100 to 001,010, and 100 within a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, there are a couople of ways to accomplish this. Format–>Cells, Number tab, Choose Custom and type 000 into the short box at the right. In Excel 2007: From the Home tab, go to Cells, select Format, then Format Cells. Go to the Number tab,…
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