Jun 20, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition on Windows 7

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... read more

May 31, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Search and Delete Files less than 1 hour old with vbscript

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,... read more

May 12, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Quick and Easy Backup Batch File Windows

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... read more

Apr 29, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Clearing Dell Logs

Ran into a reoccurring issue with Dell servers showing amber lights on the systems. When using Dell Server Administrator to research the errors it was found the Hardware logs were full. The only way we know how to get rid of the alert and clear the logs was by using Dell Server Administrator interface and manually clearing the log. This got me thinking on how can we automate this to occur manually on a... read more

Apr 28, 2011 Posted by newlife007

There is no script engine for file extension “.vbs” error

Being the typical geek I installed software and started seeing There is no script engine for file extension “.vbs” errors. The program installed was NotePad++ on my Windows XP workstation and is an awesome tool for programming and editing in general and not to mention it is free. Anyway, when the program was installed it took the .vbs extension and vbscripts stopped working and started throwing the error.... read more