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How to fly an ostrich (And other amusing stories)
Posted At: 3/20/2019 10:46:31 AM
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One of those nice hidden things that makes life much easier. There is a nice GUI-based CSV viewer built into PowerShell!<br/>From the PowerShell prompt, use the following line:<br/>Import-Csv filename.csv | Out-GridView<br/>Which will give you a view like this:<br/>Also, if you have a file that uses something…
Posted At: 7/12/2011 6:58:02 PM
Posted By: Comfortably Anonymous
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Wow, that was quick.<br/>http://www.myce.com/news/microsoft-were-pulling-the-plug-on-windows-xp-in-3-years-48249/<br/>I can remember back before it came out, after reading about it on slashdot, and telling my mom about the ridiculous new name for the next version of Windows (I thought the name sounded…
Posted At: 5/18/2008 5:21:51 PM
Posted By: Comfortably Anonymous
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Out-of-the-box, Windows XP will show the drive letters (Ex: C:) AFTER the drive description (Such as Local Disk) in "My Computer". For some reason, that's always bugged me. (I think Windows 3.x did it the other way.)<br/>So, instead ofLocal Disk (C:),the following registry change will change it to…
Posted At: 3/25/2008 11:07:00 PM
Posted By: Comfortably Anonymous
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This is a fix for Windows not wanting to open CHMs over the network. Very annoying, but easily fixed:<br/>REGEDIT4<br/>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\1.x\ItssRestrictions]<br/>"MaxAllowedZone"=dword:00000001
Posted At: 9/29/2007 4:53:24 PM
Posted By: Comfortably Anonymous
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Doing a definitive query using T-SQL is easy. When you know all the criteria in the query it's as easy as SELECT something WHERE Criteria1=x AND Criteria2=y. But in the case where you have some loosely defined criteria and want SQL to find the best possible match rather than an exact match, it gets…
Posted At: 5/29/2007 10:40:39 PM
Posted By: Comfortably Anonymous
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I'm getting the "This device cannot start (Code 10)". What usually works is to unplug both the power and the USB cable from the unit for at least 60 seconds, then plug it back in. The drive will then work for about a week, and then I have to do it again.<br/>Also, sometimes after doing the above, you…
Posted At: 11/19/2006 12:19:13 PM
Posted By: Comfortably Anonymous
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I've had a problem for quite a while where I cannot get the drive tray to eject, with or without a disc in the drive. Found that there is apparently some system contention going on (Apparently there's something stupid going on where pressing eject also signals Windows to try and read data from the…
Posted At: 8/12/2006 1:39:18 AM
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Thanks from me too - I wasted many hours looking at the Microsoft "knowledge base" and other help sites but none of their solutions worked - this one did, on Windows XP (client and ICS host), but I had to reboot the client before seeing results.<br/>Thanks a heap. Regards ... Trevor
Posted At: 3/2/2006 8:08:38 PM
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An easy way to find out just how long that Windows server has been up:<br/>Open a command prompt and type NET STATISTICS WORKSTATION and you'll get the following. The 'Statistics since xxx' shows when the machine was booted, along with a bunch of other good info. (Note you can also type NET STATISTICS…
Posted At: 8/31/2005 8:58:13 AM
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I'm so glad they allow feedback. This is the feedback I sent after wasting my time reading Q301677<br/>This means pretty much nothing. Yes, it's the templates used to display the errors. Big deal. How worthless. Oh boy. How about links to real-world explanations of these things. Obviously I'm currently…