May 2006 Entries
I don't know if you know, but there is a command line interface (CLI) for WMI and it's called WMIC! It's pretty powerful stuff. You don't need to write VB scripts for theese tasks, just do it in the command line. As usual when such stuff is available from the command line readability suffers (at least I think so).
Wmic installes it self the first time you try to run it. You can either write "wmic" in the prompt and get warped into it's own prompt.
C:\> wmicwmic:root\cli>
Or you can run it from the dos-prompt just writing "wmic" first in every...
"A programmer is a device that turns coffie into code!" :D
A new initiative from Microsoft to support open source development. Ment to replace GotDotNet in time I guess (and it's about time to) check out CodePlex! With flag ships like NUnit! Also read Cory Foy's post about it.
I have many a times wondered what the Debug=True/False actually does, well Tess answers that question in: ASP.NET Memory: If your application is in production. then why is debug=true
What's up with all the idiotic lawsuits now. I'm not primarly taking about the microsoft-google situation.
Last week I read that Creating was pressing charges against Apple iPod for something and now Symantec sues Microsoft in an attempt to delay Vista.
Theese kind of lawsuits really pisses me off. Creative should just have made there zen-player a better product than the iPod. So, wise up and put your money into RnD instaead of all these tedious lawsuits!
About a week and a half ago I sat by my computer att home and all of a sudden the screen went black. So I thougt my monitor broke down again (a dell 2100FP wich I already had to change two times). But after looking around for a bit I found out that the monitor was working properly. I tried to ping my computer, no response... So after thinking hard for a while I concluded that the common denominator for graphics and network is the motherboard. So I orderd a new mother board, waited for it and installed it this...