By default on a Windows XP pressing the Shift Key 5 times in a row turns on StickyKeys and brings up the warning dialog. In normal operation this doesn’t happen very often, but if you’re bashing someone with your rifle in Call of Duty it can pull you out of the game to show this dialog.

Normally you click …

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One of those UNIX commands that is oh-so-useful when working from the command line is du or “disk usage”. This command calculates the total size of all the files and subfolders within a folder.
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A short puzzler here- I had a group policy script mapping a (DFS) network drive at user login. It had always worked fine on XP, but the same users logging in to a Windows 7 PC didn’t get the drive mapped.
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Logged into a Fedora linux box via a command line? Want to know what version of Fedora it’s running?
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I’ve recently had the need to write an ASP page which reads a SQL database and outputs into Microsoft Excel- a user clicks on a link to this ASP page and Excel opens up with a new spreadsheet of the data. This is how I did it
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A couple of useful network commands in Visual BASIC .NET (2005). These are the equivalents of doing ping and nslookup from the command prompt. The variable sIPAddress in these examples is a string containing the IP to test, i.e. "127.0.0.1"
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The rsync tool in Linux is very useful for backing up files from one machine to another, and coupled with the Cron scheduling tool it can be used to make a simple yet efficient automated backup. This post outlines how. Authenticating with the remote system It is necessary to save your credentials on the remote system, …

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I recently had a need to install Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition on a number of machines using a batch file script and a silent -unattended - installation process. Given the age of the application I thought this would be quite straightforward and well documented, but there were a number of hurdles to clear on the …
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The Print Screen key, usually located above the number pad to the right of the keyboard, is an invaluable tool when working with images in Windows. Pressing it will copy a picture of the entire screen to the Windows clipboard,
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Users of Facebook may have noticed that they’re missing some updates from their friends on their homepage (News Feed). This is a feature designed to show you only the most relevant info- posts from the users and applications you have interacted with most recently. If you want to change it so that all updates are …

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