Office 2010 Rearm
It’s widely known that Microsoft allows anyone to install and use any version of Windows 7 for 30 days without having to enter a product activation key. By using the slmgr -rearm command, this 30-day...
View ArticleJealous of The Social Network
So I finally watched The Social Network over the weekend, and it’s made me feel jealous and a bit guilty. In a meager effort to console myself for so far failing to be a billionaire, I’m assembling the...
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Native Windows compressed folders utility fails, asks for 5.99 PB free space
The other day, I needed to extract a 7 GB zip file containing a VMware virtual machine onto the hard drive of a nearly stock 64-bit Windows 7 Professional machine. Because this machine did not have a...
View ArticleOOP PHP Notes
Overview of classes and objects Objects are the building blocks of the application (ie: the workers in a factory) Classes can be thought of as blueprints for the objects. Classes describe the objects,...
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A cache-friendly method for reducing WordPress comment spam
Update 2015-01-02: About a month ago, in early December, 2014, Google announced that it was working on a new anti-spam API that is intended to replace the traditional CAPTCHA challenge as a method for...
View ArticleDreamweaver open files in code view
If there is one thing that bothers me about Dreamweaver’s default settings (other than its annoying habit of rewriting valid code as camelCase), it is that double-clicking .php and .asp files launches...
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A common sense workaround for installing SetPoint in a VMware virtual machine
I have a Windows XP guest running in VMWare Workstation 7 on a Windows 7 Ultimate host machine. This is working pretty well. The XP guest is nice and responsive. I have only one gripe. I’d like all of...
View ArticleMigrating network printers with VBScript
As part of a migration from Windows XP to Windows 7, I was asked to come up with a way to export the network printers installed on the XP machines such that they could be reinstalled on the Windows 7...
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VMware Workstation returns an “Internal error” when powering on a virtual...
I recently reinstalled Windows 7 and then VM Workstation 7 on a machine that I’d been using as a VMware Workstation host running an XP virtual machine. The VM is named “XP-Office2007″ and it resides on...
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Building WMI queries with Wbemtest.exe and WMI Code Creator
Sure, Wbemtest.exe is pretty neat, and it gets points for being built-in. http://blogs.technet.com/b/chad/archive/2012/03/08/tip-45-wbemtest-the-underappreciated-tool.aspx Microsoft’s Wbemtest.exe...
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