Ccleaner. Whatever Malware Bytes does … it is BEYOND awesome and has saved a lot of people from having to redo their computers. Makes me look like a hero – this is my first choice. When I brought this up with my IT desktop guy – he said ccleaner is great. He uses it from his USB stick. PAY THE $$ for Malware bytes. It is NOT an antivirus – it is just plain awesome.
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A blog like mine but for Sharepoint … odds and sods
Make time machine on AFP or NAS volume for Yosemite
Ping every IP in a subnet to find that ‘one that got away’ (DOS)
First, I didn’t need to find this – I blogged a javascript version long ago, but I forgot I blogged it. I thought it was pre-blogging. Here is a DOS version too. Someone complained it was slow, but copy, paste into notepad, change the line below “Please enter IP address range (for example, 192.168.0)” (remove the /p) and run it. Answer in less that 3 minutes. Here it is. http://superuser.com/questions/45687/how-can-i-ping-a-range-of-ip-addresses-simultaneously
I did change a couple other lines cause I wanted to see the results – not just look in the created file. Change the 2 lines into 4 …
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IF %errorlevel%==0 echo %subnet%.%count% UP >> c:\pingnet.log
IF %errorlevel%==0 echo %subnet%.%count% UP
IF %errorlevel%==1 echo %subnet%.%count% DOWN >> c:\pingnet.log
IF %errorlevel%==1 echo %subnet%.%count% DOWN
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Enable screensaver and default logon domain via Group Policy Object (GPO)
Lets keep it simple. Here is the link. This is related to another article I outined enabling Folder Redirection and setting environment variables via GPO (also in that article).
Also – the default login domain isn’t consistent – it needs to be for the users. Since I had to use the local computer name as the domain for administrative reasons during the initial joining of the domain – but it doesn’t stick and I don’t want to have to train users how to enter the domain name each time (why should they – their job is their job – not learning complex IT stuff). So lets make this more “mac-like”. Follow this article.
How to setup a successful roaming profile and folder redirection
So I have this blog that is supposed to help me find bookmarks for past projects so I can redo stuff quickly – but it only works if you use it. I didn’t and I had to relearn the steps WHICH DID NOT WORK. So luckily – the history of the machine where I did it still had all the links. Here are the pages that worked. When I figure out what is different between the one that worked that the one that didn’t I will re-blog it in this article. Here is a dump of the links that worked. At the bottom was the one that didn’t [UPDATE: It did work – the GPO settings didn’t save – that was the root cause] – but I didn’t follow it to a T because I didn’t want some of those features (they were optional .. or were they) . So – like a mac, there is no save button – but the setting’s didn’t take for some reason. So – never assume it took – double check. I also found 10 reasons GPO fails – mine was reason#11 – “it didn’t save”. I had 2 of them today that did this on Server 2012 – but i know to hit F5 to refresh the summary page now to see if it took. Continue reading
A good tool to understand / debug dns
I got this from networksolutions.com helpdesk. If they use it, I will use it. http://mxtoolbox.com/#
Extracting graph data from an image
What I am really needing is one that can be driven from a programming language – not a GUI. But here is a list of my research thus far.
- Stack Overflow – with lots of links and a discussion of how
- Image J – MIGHT have an API
- Digitize IT – I need to email to see what command line options exist
- g3data – all source code is available under github. Written in c. This might be close to what I need!
- BINGO Enguage Digitizer has a command line option
- install is messy – needs support link here
Excel XLA or addin help – how to link in a help file
Using a chm file – here is how (scroll waaaaay down) to link your help file and your function. I want to do this pro grammatically and generate a link automatically. We will see how that goes.
Did you know you can get all of your VBA code extracted to a text file procedure by procedure (using VBA itself?) I made an export tool for all my modules, but I always wanted to add help like they do in c# (sandcastle style) and link to a help file. Check this link. I have so much code now I am going crazy.
Filemaker hosting options
First,
[UPDATE: I think I am in the wrong business – I think I should no become a Filemaker hosting company. One can make some good $$] I have never seen software so easy to install and use as Filemaker Server. Open one port on your fire wall (5003) and you have a hosting solution and very stable (you never touch it and it backs up and backs up etc. etc faithfully. Truely Apple software – do keep in mind as you read – that I am quite biased to doing it on your own. But I will try my best to be objective.
However, if you have nightmares from other products and don’t want to worry at all, here are some links Continue reading