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What Every C# Dev Needs to Know About Dates
There’s a big difference in what a M, MM, MMM, and MMMM mean in a date format. Also, you can say: String.Format( "{0:yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss}", DateTime.Now ) to convert a .Net date into a MySQL format...
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Love Visual Studio, Crashes!
Moving the Call Stack window while debugging was crashing VS2009. Luckily, there was a KB article about it.Filed under: computing, Programming, Windows Tagged: hotfix, visual studio
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64 Bit Windows Filesystem Voodoo
I was really baffled by why I couldn’t find a file in my editor. This article explained why. I ended up copying it out of that location, editing it, and copying it back.Filed under: computing, Windows
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XP System Does a Dodge Monaco Ka-Boom!
Apparently, the Dodge Monaco was the cop car in the Blues Brothers movie that served Ellwood so well. It came to a catastrophic end, of course. My mom just had her seven year old Dell do a Dodge Monaco...
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Tail the Latest Log File
I’m grateful for Cygwin. I wouldn’t know how to do this in cmd–though I should probably learn how to do it in PoSH. find LogFiles/W3SVC1 -type f | xargs ls -1tr | tail -n1 | xargs tail -F I need to...
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Remember “In the Trenches”? That’s How I Learned of LOPSA #lfnw
I chatted with a few of the guys at the LOPSA booth and mentioned that I first learned about LOPSA by listening to Kevin Devin’s In the Trenches podcast. This Friends In Tech show was insightful,...
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Translating Filenames — Bash Voodoo Style #linux
This is an example of using Bash to convert a crazy apache log and translating the filename into an IIS log pattern: d=`date +%Y%m%d` find k -type f \ | while read filename do...
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Highlighting with Wordlight (Visual Studio)
I love being able to double click on a word and seeing all occurances of it highlighted in my editor. I think the Highlighter plugin for jEdit, and I’m disappointed that there are no free plugins of...
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Skype protocol cracked?
Saw this @torrentfreak tweet via @doctrow: http://torrentfreak.com/skype-reverse-engineered-and-dumped-on-pirate-bay-110603/Filed under: commuting, security, Windows Tagged: hacking, reverse...
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With XP’s End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs – Slashdot
With XP’s End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs – Slashdot. This is a great idea. Bellingham should consider this (that is, not just Bellingham library, but BLUG, too.)Filed under: computing,...
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SourceForge is making Open Source Look Like a Scam
Not only when I download something from SourceForge these days am I presented a proxy-downloader that tries to sell me on installing some unsolicited system utility — like a browser home page take over...
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Windows is AWESOME, if you like being unproductive.
Windows is AWESOME. Back to Linux. Filed under: computing, Windows Tagged: computing, fail, Windows
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Windows OEM License
So it turns out you can destroy a windows virtual host really quickly, just by moving it from one host system to another host. This is something I’ve done with Linux virtual hosts many times, and it...
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Skype protocol cracked?
Saw this @torrentfreak tweet via @doctrow: http://torrentfreak.com/skype-reverse-engineered-and-dumped-on-pirate-bay-110603/Filed under: commuting, security, Windows Tagged: hacking, reverse...
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Install cmder: It’s the nicest shell I’ve seen for windows. Run your console as Administrator. Otherwise you can’t use the /B backup switch. Also rember you need to do a net use command as...
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Window for soldering station
Linseed. 25deg bevel on top edge. Wash the window and attach piano hinge in the morning. #carpentry #diy
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