Monthly Archives: May 2007

How to Create a Bootable Windows XP Setup CD/DVD from a Pre-loaded/Preinstalled Windows System

My Toshiba comes with a CD, its R E S T O R e My Toshiba has another CD, its R E S T O R How to Create a Bootable Windows XP Setup CD/DVD from a Pre-loaded/Preinstalled Windows System … Continue reading

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Even more T-SQL

These are from MSDN. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.management.smo.agent.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162162.aspx

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Sending Email in T-SQL

For the uninitiated (like me), Microsoft SQL Server has T-SQL (think PL/SQL for Oracle).  Of course being an MS product, it has to have some VB scripting integration, which is cool.  Part of this integration lets you get your hands … Continue reading

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SVN and Kapersky Nuh-ah

Getting ‘Bad Request’ when trying to checkout? Getting ’403”s when trying to checkin? SVN:// protocol works without probs but baffled why you get the above errors when working with a http:// repository? See here: Subversion – Cant checkout 400 Bad … Continue reading

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EJB’s for you at home

XDoclet doesn’t have a remove tag.  It doesn’t need to. Here are some tutorials: http://www.laliluna.de/simple-xdoclet-ejb-cmp-relation-tutorial.html Looks like My-Eclipse has some nice xdoclet integration.  The one I’m trying through JBoss has been difficult to configure and I don’t think I’m making … Continue reading

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Sexy NUnit Runner

ReSharper UnitRun is a plugin for VS.NET and its the best looking NUnit (or JUnit tool) I’ve seen to date.  

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Why is that search process eating my CPU?

This post advised that with Adobe Reader 8, a new Adobe provider iFilter came to be. That’s great, but I noticed that the windows desktop search was now using all my CPU.  Using process monitor, I realised the search was indexing … Continue reading

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The FingerNails and the Chalkbo9rd

Yesterday I spent the day with my good friend and colleague from my group to work on some coding for the project. Let me just say from the outset that I respect this colleague for their technical prowess and their … Continue reading

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EasyEclipse

My very good friend of mine, Andrew pointed me the way of EasyEclipse.  Its a Eclipse distro with a collection of very useful plugins, and some of their own. You can download the plugins seperately or get one of their … Continue reading

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VMware Tools

You can get VMWare tools from the linux tarball for VMWare workstation.  Look for a windows.iso, mount it somewhere, and share it across the network so your virtualised PC can run it. Faster graphics await (as well as on the … Continue reading

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