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a Windows paradigm: pressing the “Alt” key always makes the main menu bar appear
I didn’t know that, a colleague just told me that recently. I find that rather useful. So I created this note mainly for engraving this thing into my memory.
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a term in computer networking and security: APZ = Asset Protection Zone
I am not sure, whether this is a known term in I.T. outside my customer’s premises – I thought I look it up anyway and bookmark it here. http://www.aboutthehouse.com.au/switch/392-3902-1 An Asset Protection Zone (APZ) is often referred to as a fire protection zone and aims to protect human life, property and highly valued assets and values.…
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Google Chromium keeps creating “blue screens” on my Win7 PC at work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death I am still suffering from getting the PC “on my desk at one of my customers’ site” migrated from WinXP to Win7. I did not expect Chromium to have problems with Win7. One of the messages appearing repeatedly was about a display driver, that mentioned Windows Vista somehow, stopped functioning and got restarted. I…
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emacs/tramp/win/putty: “byte-code: couldn’t find a proper ‘ls’ command”
The PC at “my” desk at my customer’s site just got migrated from WinXP to win7, and I have to re-install and re-configure a couple of packages, and now I have trouble re-adopting tramp. Having to deal with tramp always brings Michael Albinus to my mind. I only met him during one week in 1988…
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Win7: creating a directory on the local disk for personal use with permanent “full control”
Within the Windows environments of one of my customers, the team members are granted the right to acquire and keep the Administrator rights regarding a directory on the local disk for personal use (for keeping data, installing software, …). Here I attempt to describe, how to achieve this: create a directory, e.g. c:user within the…
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John Walker’s “logtail” – a utility to watch multiple log files on multiple machines
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/logtail/ implemented in Perl
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Perl Maven: Installing a Perl Module from CPAN on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
http://perlmaven.com/how-to-install-a-perl-module-from-cpan Not covering perlbrew.
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4km in 21:35 on the treadmill
8km in 49:30 on the treadmill – after 3km I knew, I couldn’t run through at that pace, so I decided to slow down after the 4th km to something I could carry on for another 4km.