Resetting the MySQL Root Password Easily
Have you ever lost the essential root@localhost MySQL password or have you taken over a MySQL project with the DB admin unreachable? If either is the case, the question is how do I gain access to the...
View ArticleGetting the Path to Current Node with XSL
This article has been pulled off from our company’s knowledge base. Yet, it seems that a very, very similar article has been published already crediting Jeni Tennison as the original author. Thanks for...
View ArticleUsing Atomic Operations in C on Solaris 10
Atomic instructions ensure global visibility of atomically-modified variables on completion. In a relaxed store order system, this does not guarantee that the visibility of other variables will be...
View ArticleSerialization & Externalization: Do You Know the Difference?
Thanks to serialization of objects in Java, we can obtain a byte sequence from any object that has implemented the Serializable interface; it also allows us to revert the process by turning that byte...
View ArticleCS-Script: A Scripting Engine for .NET
Do you belong to the group of users, who just hate to do scripting with the WSH in a language you don’t like either? Well, C# friends, CS-Script brings the power and cleaness of C# into the world of...
View ArticleA Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
You may have wondered what visualization method might be best for your data or which are available at all. Sometimes you need to decide which sort of diagram to use. Now, help is in sight. Researchers...
View ArticleXDrive: Looks Good, but AOL Service Signup Included!
Today, I decided to give XDrive a try, an online storage provider that offers 5 GB storage for free. No Payments, No Obligations says the website. Yeah, great! Exactly what I want. Unfortunately, the...
View ArticleTest Your Pages In 39 Browsers At Once
The Browsershots project allows web developers to see how different browsers and platforms render their pages without any effort. How does it work? When you visit BrowserShots.org you enter the website...
View ArticleAccessing the Device Context to Determine Color Depth in .NET
Yesterday, I stumbled over a piece of code I almost forgot about. It allows for reliably querying the current device context for the desktop's color depth. Thought I'd share it here since it's been...
View ArticleHyper-V: Connecting a VM to an External WiFi Network
If you’re a notebook user like I am you might have noticed that Hyper-V prohibits binding of Wireless LAN adapters to external virtual networks which essentially means that you cannot access resources...
View ArticleHyper-V & VMware: Only One at a Time
Hyper-V is great. Just love the idea of using the integrated virtualization infrastructure to host virtual machines. It’s a promising combination and I expected some performance improvements which I...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s new ‘Desktops’ Tool: Boring!
Microsoft's Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell from the subsidiary Sysinternals have released a new tool for creating virtual desktops called Desktops. I can't tell if it is supposed to replace the...
View ArticleSharePoint: Error Accessing Search Settings in SSP
Acessing the Search Service administration site for the first time might result in an error since there may be no SSL certificate issued for the host configured with the query/index/search role. This...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Server 2008 SP1 on SQL Server 2008 SP1
It was quite a while ago when I tried getting TFS 2008 running. Due to lack of time I was unable to investigate on the issues but lately my curiosity returned and in less than 3 hours I figured out how...
View ArticleSharePoint: Adding a Toolbar to Custom List Views
Some time ago I wrote about using an EditorPart for a custom list view web part to allow users to easily configure the web part. Apart from the public and private responses I've received so far I made...
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