Just installed Windows Live Writer and am checking what the blog post written and published from my desktop looks like. What my server room looked like before we went VMWare
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Windows 2012 Sending PJL Commands before the Postscript – Arrrggggh
I'm trying to get http://cups-mailto.sourceforge.net/ to work on a Debian 6.0.7 system. I've installed the printer on the Debian Box as "PDF-Converter" and gotten it running over LPD. However when printing a test page from a Windows 2012 server with any of the HP...
Microsoft Update: msxml3.dll: The parameter is incorrect
Disclaimer I have a VBS script that calls: ' Create object Set XmlDocument = WScript.CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0") Set XslStylesheet = WScript.CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0") ' load xml doc and stylesheet into above objects ' attempt a transform Result...
Exchange fails to deliver to a Single Mailbox
Problem: I had a user that wasn't getting any internal / external emails. There was nothing in the logs and nothing to indicate why the Local Delivery queue was stalled for all emails that had them as a recipient. Troubleshooting: I Opened the Exchange System Manager...
Autohotkey – Applications that exit gracefully give you consistent backups
I have a Weighbridge application at work that runs on top of Paradox databases. When you exit via the GUI say by clicking the cross in the top right or {ALT} {F4} it does the right thing and cleans up after itself as it closes. If you simply say pskill ProcessName...
I want my At jobs to have a nice name – Use Schtasks
I used at to create a scheduled task that ran at 9:02 every week day: at 09:02 /every:m,t,w,th,f C:\path\to\my\batchfile.bat However when looking at the task in the scheduled tasks control panel all you see is At<id number of at job> e.g. At1. I wanted a nice...
Get the nth line of a text file using Windows Batch Scripting
This is something I just made up to parse a csv file and return a specific value from the first content line (line 2) and the last line of the file. The purpose for it was to get that information and then format a new filename of...
Internet Explorer 7 Cookies
Internet Explorer 7 doesn't seem to like the max-age= way of defining cookie aging. It doesn't like this (i.e. no persistent cookie is created): document.cookie = cookieName + "=" + cookieValue + "; max-age=" + (60*60*24*365) ; // 1 year in seconds But does like this:...
Scripting SNMPGet.exe using VBScript
Every month I have to submit page counts to our printer supplier. Usually it involves connecting to each printers administration webpage counting up the different totals (black/white, colour) and then sending that back to them. Here is a VBScript function that calls...
Make a y/n prompt for cscript.exe using VBS
msg = "Do you wish to add " & First & " " & Last & "?" wscript.echo msg Wscript.StdOut.Write "Add Employee to DB? (y/n) " choice = Wscript.StdIn.ReadLine ' read the input if choice = "y" or choice = "Y" then ' do what you have to do .... end...