Category: How-to
Get rid of those pesky Windows startup programs
Numerous companies over the years have joined the computer-industry bandwagon and have added their own quick launch and/or startup shortcuts of their applications in Windows. Though their intent is good, it most of the time results in system slowdowns and user unproductivity. What happens is system resources, i.e., memory, are used unnecessarily that could otherwise be…
Put your Mac to sleep via e-mail
You’re at work, with no remote control access/capability to your Mac at home, brown-outs are occurring, and you forgot to plug it into a power strip due to some unknown reason last night. What do you do? Well, read on… With some preparation, you can take advantage of Apple’s Mail‘s rules feature to run an AppleScript…
Windows PowerShell script to check for specific hotfix
I was asked by our IT department to write something that would check if a specific Windows Update hotfix was installed on a number of servers (they gave me list), and they wanted it ASAP. So, I thought, hmm…this is the perfect opportunity to give Microsoft’s new scripting tool, Windows PowerShell, a try. I tip…
Yumex to the rescue!
Yumex is a yum extender that provides a GUI for package management. So why am I writing about it, well, read on… I had written recently about my upgrading from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 6, and one major, annoying issue I encountered was with the yum updates. I encountered approximately 5 conflicts and about 2 dependency…
iptables script
I’ve been running Fedora Core 1 for about, hmm…5 years(?) on my little ‘ole work-horse server, but this reliable/stable OS has started showing its age. Repository issues, keeping software and everything else up-to-date. Ugh. =0( I was initially sold on installing RHEL ES 4 (I had the disks already), but my server had problems with the “transferring image to…
Add text highlighting in ASP.NET 2.0 GridView
I built an ASP.NET 2.0 web application [for the company I work for] that streamlined the deployment process to our production environment. It processed, tracked, archived, and notified automatically on each step of the deployment process. So with that in mind, I’ll be showing you how to add text highlighting in a GridView; for example,…