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Location of vmware-any-any patch
The fix download the latest vmware-any-any patch and untar it and run the runme.pl script.
Grant Access to MSDE DB using Windows Group
Trying to get an MSDE going with the SQL gui. These are my personal notes. osql -U sa -S SERVER\INSTANCE Password: ****** 1. Give the group the ability to login to the MSDE Instance use master go EXEC sp_addlogin 'DOMAIN\domainGroup' go 2. Grant Access to DB (still...
Copy a Table – MSDE
Using osql log into the database osql -S SERVERNAME\INSTANCENAME -U dbusername Password: ********* 1>use dbname 2>go 1>SELECT * INTO new_target_table FROM old_source_table 2>go
Using Knoppix and ntfsresize to enlarge a Windows XP partition
The following is useful if you have say a 10GB C: drive and it's on a larger Hard Disk and you would like to enlarge it. I don't go into the nitty gritty of using fdisk under Linux so it might be a bit abreviated if you're a newbie. Boot from Knoppix CD Once booted...
A new member of the Family.
My lovely Wife has gotten us a pet Fish. Here is a picture of it lurking in it's vase. I was a bit concerned about it on the first night but I think it was just acclimatizing. Seems it's a tropical fish and they need reasonably warm weather so a heater may be on the...
Using ImageMagick’s convert to resize all jpg’s in a directory
Using cygwin with ImageMagick installed you can resize entire directories of jpegs using the convert utility for i in `ls *.jpg`; do convert -resize 30% -quality 80 $i conv_$i; done The 30% made images with a resolution of 3072 x 2304 pixels (approx 1.6 to 2.1MB each)...