MSH is now Microsoft PowerShell
I haven't played with Monad shell for a while, the next thing I know there is a new scripting language called "Microsoft PowerShell". At first, […]
Windows Hidden File Attribute
Recently, I used xcopy to backup all the files from a bad hard drive to another drive under Windows XP. After all the files got […]
How to Run Applications Written for Other Languages (Windows XP)
If you ever install applications written for other languages in Windows 98, you know that most of the time the user interface is not readable. […]
Fedora Core 5 Installation Notes
Just downloaded the FC5 DVD iso from the mirror site. Here are some of the notes. The test machine is Acer Ferrari 3400. Note that […]
How to Setup RAID on Dimension 8400
We have a Dimension 8400 that came with a single SATA drive. Recently, we retired some IDE drives that we want to add to the […]
WQL and Path
I am playing around with WQL today. For a longest time, I couldn’t get this query to work. Set colFiles = objWMIService.ExecQuery (“SELECT * FROM […]
How to Create a Hyperlink in Excel Spreadsheet Using VBScript
Someone at the newsgroup asked this question. This is the VBScript that I wrote to accomplish this. Dim objExcel Set objExcel = WScript.CreateObject(“Excel.Application”) objExcel.Visible = […]
XviD Files Crash Windows Explorer
I copied some XviD encoded AVI files to a machine without XviD codec installed. Whenever I open the folder containing these files. The Windows Explorer […]
Intel iMac and Samsung ML-2551N
We usually use the IP Printer option in Mac OS X when setting up network printer in our environment. We got this shiny iMac with […]
Silent Installation for Firefox and Thunderbird
“Firefox Setup 1.0.5.exe” -ms “Thunderbird Setup 1.0.2.exe” -ms