Getting the Linux guest host to use the same network adapter as windows requires you to create a virtual interface and then bridging it to your physical interface. Pretty interesting stuff.
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Good for a home machine.
You can configure Windows XP to automate the logon process if your computer is not part of a domain.
Source: Windows XP: Auto Logon to Windows XP
Windows services that wont die are listed as ‘Stopping’ in the Services console. This is how to forcibly kill a service:
sc queryex SMTPSvc
taskkill /PID 388 /F
Source: Killing a Windows Service that seems to hang on “Stopping” – B# .NET Blog
My LAN connection has been dog slow since day one with vista. I figured it’d be some new ‘feature’ thats killing it. Looks like I was right.
The synopsis is that their appears to be a problem with Vista being too smart for it’s own good, with the addition of the “Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level” setting [...]
Works in cygwin as well. Bye bye old logs.
find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
Source: Delete Files Older Than x Days on Linux :: the How-To Geek
How to get VMWare player running a fresh OS install.
The trick to getting more out the VMWare Player and VMWare Server than a few premade images is actually two-fold, let me guide you through the process of almost getting a free VMWare Workstation replacement.
Source: Forever For Now – VMWare Player Image Creation
NTDSUTIL
Source: How do I remove a nonexistent domain controller?
This certainly comes in handy.
To create a virtual directory using IIS Manager
1. In IIS Manager, expand the local computer, expand the FTP Sites folder, expand the FTP site to which you want to add a virtual directory, right-click the site or folder within which you wish to create the virtual directory, point to New, [...]
Something that was mildly anoying just went away.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\ ITBar7Position=dword:00000001
Source: Unhandled Perception: Relocate the menu bar in IE7 to the top of the window
I was looking for something like this for a while. A good use of all that space and bandwith Dreamhost gives you.
rsync -avrz –progress “/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator” fieldsmarshall@burnaby.dreamhost.com:/home/fieldsmarshall/backup
Source: Fields Marshall – web marketing 2.0 ยป Using Rsync backup on Dreamhost