Uptime – the time your operating system has been up and running since the last power-cycle or reboot. In the earlier days of computing, uptime was everything. Unix admins would often brag about their multi-year uptime; while those limited to Windows may be lucky to make a day. It’s been the running joke or stereotype [...]
Do you have multiple computers on your network, either in your home or office, that you’d like to logoff, restart, or shutdown outright? This may seem like a rather specific situation for most but let me share a real world example of where this may come in handy. At the office there are occasions where [...]
I’ve showed you before that holding Shift and right-clicking on your desktop or a folder reveals the Open Command Window Here menu item. But what if you always want that option available? You could glue your shift key down – but that might have other side effects. No, this is actually possible and it involves [...]
We all do boneheaded things from time to time, its what makes us human. Unfortunately, today I realized I am human. I was doing some file system cleaning on my Vista Media Center in an effort to free up some space on the Windows partition when I accidentally deleted a critical folder for Media Center’s [...]
I’ve got attachment issues. Sometimes I have problems just letting the past fade away all while embracing the future. This is a huge dilemma for someone in the tech industry; one who must be open to everything because things change and evolve rapidly. Today I’m referring to DOS and the command line, an environment that [...]