BeejBlog

Set a priority order on primary app windows like video, email, eBook reader and then they automatically maintain their size, “repel” from overlapping with other windows and z-order themselves to the top with transparency.

i was having a heck of a time trying to get “net use * https://myhost.com” type WebDAV client mounts to connect… all that would ever work would be https://localhost … nothing i tried would connect to my WAN ip… always something like “System error 5… access is denied”… then i... [Read More]

Disk Defragmentation in RAID and SAN Environments

Main Microsoft landing page for PowerShell… download and install it!!  (if you’re running Windows Server 2008, it’s already loaded) Out of the box executing PowerShell scripts is completely disabled for security… there’s a couple immediate tasks to enable… Go find the PowerShell icon and fire it up… Vista (booo hiss!)... [Read More]

Absolutely crazy I hadn’t run across this little gem yet… could’ve used that bugger to get out of a couple jams.  e.g. eliminating heavily duplicated xml blobs that represent incoming supply chain events/transactions.  The BOL has a couple examples to get your juices flowing.  e.g. Run it on a column... [Read More]