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A Friendlier Powershell Prompt
Friday, June 10, 2011
function prompt { $user = [Environment]::UserName; $computer = gc env:computername; $dir = [Environment]::CurrentDirectory=(Get-Location -PSProvider FileSystem).ProviderPath; $user + "@" + $computer + ":" + $dir + ">" } This post helped with the last part.
Fixing Octave’s Plot on the Windows 3.2.4 Release
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Out of the box a lot of us Windows users who added all of the Octave-Forge packages are disappointed to find that the plot function produces an invisible window. Here is the problem and solution: Realistic solution at this moment, do not install the oct2mat package when you install octave with octave-forge packages if you [...]
Microsoft AntiVirus is Free for Windows XP
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Microsoft AntiVirus is free and it works for Windows XP: Yes. You can install Microsoft Security Essentials on XP and Win 7. —RickImAPC Awesome.
ImgBurn for Windows is Excellent
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Here is a great disc-burning application for MS Windows called ImgBurn. Works great “out of the box” and is free, which doesn’t reflect its utility or value at all. I will only share additionally that I’ve tried two free and two commercial application, which I won’t name for fear of any publicity that it would [...]
Windows XP RunAs feature is horribly broken
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Switching back to Windows XP from the Mac has been educational. Along with learning a lot more about Cygin than I had ever known before, I’m discovering new features-to-be-avoided in Windows XP. Here is a biggie: “Run As”. Windows allows you to execute programs with another user’s credentials. You are probability thinking “Simple right?”. Well, [...]
How To Create a User-Defined Service
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Because I always forget how, here is how to create a user-defined service in Windows: Get a copy of the Windows 2003 Resource Toolkit Install the service: path\INSTSRV.EXE My Service path\SRVANY.EXE Open the service you just created in regedit here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\[My Service] Right click the service itself and create a key named ‘Parameters’. This creates [...]
A Command Line tool for the Windows Clipboard
Saturday, March 14, 2009
This command line tool for working with the Windows clipboard looks very useful for Windows power-users.