Jun 20, 2011
On an earlier post I mentioned writing about remotely posting to WordPress with a Windows Client. Well, we have arrived and I am glad to tell you there is a great free tool to do just that. Windows Live Writer 2011 is part of the Windows Live Essentials available for download. Windows Live Essentials 2011 can be found at http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials?os=other. It includes Messenger,...
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Remotely Posting with Windows Live Writer 2011
Jun 20, 2011
Been awhile since my last post. So a fun one is needed. Recently got a hankering to play Duke 3D which is from the DOS/Windows 98 days. The author open sourced the engine years ago and since then High Resolution Packs were introduced to bring the graphics up to date. The steps listed below just show you how simple it was to be able to play Duke 3D and bring it up to date. First we have to download HRP...
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Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition on Windows 7
May 31, 2011
Ran into a situation where temporary created files were filling the drives of a Windows 2003 server. So I turned to vbscript and creating a scheduled task to keep the space issue at bay. Here is the script. ‘ VBscript to delete files older than 1 hour ‘ directory to delete ‘ cleanoldfiles.vbs ‘ change dir variable to directory to target files sdir=”d:\my dir” dim dt,...
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Search and Delete Files less than 1 hour old with vbscript
May 12, 2011
Backups are an evil necessity and as with most geek admins we tend to forget to do it. We think of grand schemes and how we can do it better. Well I am still thinking of those grad schemes but in the meantime I use a simple command file to backup file off one drive to another that will only copy newer files. What is so nice with this is I don’t have to have a backup program to retrieve the data, but...
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Quick and Easy Backup Batch File Windows
May 8, 2011
Recently after installing XAMPP on my system I wanted to start developing WordPress themes. The best way to accomplish this with Dreamweaver CS5 is to have a local install so that editing the files locally was easy. Looking around I found this is really an easy task to accomplish. First download the latest from WordPress. Once the download is completed unzip the files to C:\xampp\htdocs, this will create...
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WordPress on XAMPP
