I was looking for an Adobe Lightroom alternative for Linux and found LightZone. LightZone was created by Light Crafts, Inc. which started selling this software in 2005. They closed up shop in September 2011 and released LightZone to opensource in December … Continue reading
There are times that additional Windows accounts need created but aren’t used by typical users and you don’t want the account to show up on the logon screen to Windows. You can use the following registry edit to hide specific … Continue reading
DATACENTER AND STANDARD EDITIONS Q1. What is new in Windows Server 2012? Q2. What is the difference between Windows Server 2012 Standard edition and Windows Server 2012 Datacenter edition? Q3. Will Windows Server 2012 Standard edition have all of the … Continue reading
(source) Access to Prior Product Versions – September 2012 Update Customers who have licensed software through a Microsoft Volume Licensing program are eligible to use prior versions of the software edition they have licensed. This is known as a “downgrade … Continue reading
Windows lifecycle fact sheet (source) Last updated: January 2013 Every Windows product has a lifecycle. The lifecycle begins when a product is released and ends when it’s no longer supported or sold. Knowing key dates in this lifecycle helps … Continue reading
Aside from Windows’ built-in performance monitoring tool (perfmon) you can download IOMeter which runs on Windows for free. You can use this tool to benchmark and analyze disk IOPs and throughput, including network drives/NAS devices. Download: http://www.iometer.org/ Incoming search terms:disk … Continue reading
You need to expand a file when you want to copy just one or two files from distribution disks of a software application without having to reinstall the whole thing. This situation occurs when you have unsuccessfully installed a program … Continue reading
Here’s a batch script I took some time to write this afternoon that will generate shortcuts of your sessions on your desktop so you can just launch them directly from desktop. The script tries to find PuTTy executable and if … Continue reading
Here’s a quick tip/trick to launch a PuTTy session from the desktop shortcut. Create a new shortcut and point it to the Putty.exe and add “-load SESSIONNAME” at the end of the path. This is my session “Linux1″ from my … Continue reading
This was much easier than I thought… I had a large CSV file that contained a full name for the first column but the application I was importing to needed a First and Last name separately. This is how I … Continue reading