AVS DVD Player is a compact and easy-to-use program that has a simple user-friendly interface allowing you to start watching DVD movies with no additional software. It is offered for FREE by Online Media Technologies Ltd. In many ways it is comparable to the more popular commercial products offered by Cyberlink PowerDVD or Corel’s WinDVD. This FREE download and application…
Read More »Every now and again, I have had requirements to access shared drives on other domains on which I have an account and do not want to create a permanent network connection. A couple of years ago, I stumbled upon this visual basic script that I have been using without any issues. I have tested this script using Microsoft Windows XP…
Read More »Beyond Compare® is the ideal tool for comparing files and folders on your Windows or Linux system. Visualize changes in your code and carefully reconcile them. Beyond Compare is available at Scooter Software. A license was purchased to support a large user community. I wanted a means to simplify the distribution of this application with the license file. I chose…
Read More »A user has an Epson scanner using Epson Scan Ver. 2.75A. The scanner had been functioning correctly until recently. For some reason, the scanner will go through the motions of scanning the image and even present a preview, however, upon attempting to save the scan as an image, the Epson scanner software will now pop up an error message, with…
Read More »A recent request from a user wanted to customize the bar in Word 2007, at the windows symbol (upper left corner) > Save As > Save In. The user wanted to eliminate the default places from the list, since some of the places are never used by this user. After some research, it turns out that this area in Save…
Read More »Sockso is a free, open-source, personal music server. It’s designed to be as simple as possible so that anyone with a mouse and some mp3’s can get their friends listening to their music across the internet or intranet in seconds! Having tested the latest version 1.1.1, I have found that this application to be quite efficent and useful in it’s…
Read More »A group of users needed to change from one FTP client application to another. There was no conversion available for the original FTP application, only a spreadsheet that had been maintained. There was a need to bulk add a couple of hundred ftp accounts into a new FTP client. The selected FTP client is FileZilla. A little known tidbit about…
Read More »Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is remote control software to allow computers interact with one another as a server and client. It is developed to ease the administration of remote machines without using the console. For Windows users, there may be a a familiar feel similar to that of Windows Terminal Services (RDP). VNCServer is standard on a Red Hat Enterprise…
Read More »A recent task was to setup a JBoss Application Server on a Linux box. I created an Ubuntu 8.10 server virtual machine on a VMware Workstation. This was a fresh install of the core operating system only, no optional installation packages were added during the installation. I started from scratch, as too many guides make too many assumptions in their…
Read More »I installed an application that required port 8080. I was unable to execute the application as port 8080 was already in use. Unable to determine which application, I changed the setting for the application I had just installed to port 8090. Success. However, I still wanted to know if anything was running on port 8080. Like Windows, Linux has a…
Read More »To get my feet wet, I wanted to test an installation of WordPress MU (multi-user) edition. The installation seems too problematic on a Windows workstation, even when running in an environment such as AppServ , WAMP, XAMPP, or Uniform Server. My preference is XAMPP. I have tested and used all these environments. I originally preferred the Uniform Server as it…
Read More »As reported in their June 2008 weblog, Adobe released version 9 of its Adobe Reader PDF display software. It is reported to add new capabilities, offer better performance and stronger security. However, I had not adopted this release until recently. It wasn’t too long after the installation, when I discovered that the web browser plugin was not working. To get…
Read More »I have read throughout the internet many different methods to enable the JRE plugin in a Firefox installation on a Linux box; however, I was not able to get the plugin to work. Accidentally, I found the right answer from the source. There is also a procedure for Firefox, though I had selected the one for Mozilla 1.4 or later….
Read More »I recently encountered a database that was 4 MB in size with it’s respective transaction log at 460 MB. The transaction log is used in a recovery model to restore the database to a point in time. I wanted to reduce the size of the transaction log. More importantly, I wasn’t exactly clear as to why a transaction log of…
Read More »You already have JBoss ready and operational. JBoss can be started through a command line or through a shell script that you have created; however, these steps are manual and an automated approach is desired. The goal is to automate JBoss as a service or daemon. There are many, many tutorials that are all over the internet that offer scripts…
Read More »Atlassian JIRA is a bug and issue tracker. Atlassian JIRA lets you priorities, assign, track, report and audit your ‘issues,’ whatever they may be — from software bugs and help-desk tickets to project tasks and change requests. After installing JIRA, on a CentOS 5.2 Linux installation, I wanted to automate the starting and stopping of JIRA by creating a service….
Read More »Permalinks are the URLs to an individual post, category, page, etc. These links generally take the form of index.php?p=444 (or some number). Pretty Permalinks are the same URLs crafted to make sense to the user. Apache offers this ability, though generally not set by default. IIS through version 6 (Windows 2003) does not offer this. There are ISAPI filters both…
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