Author: Rob

I recently had the need to launch/open multiple instances of the same windows application at different window positions. The web provided various solutions, but there wasn’t any single tidy batch script that tied everything together. My desire was

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Periodically I like to update cygwin, add a new package or update an existing package. One annoying thing about updating cygwin is that if any cygwin files are in use (such as one of its dll files) when

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It is possible to use unison on windows and synchronize symbolic links with remote systems and keep these symbolic links as actual links and not “follow” or copy the files. The windows version of Unison does not

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I recently wanted to copy an Excel worksheet using Apache POI from one workbook to another workbook. I desired to have this copy include all styles, such as bold/underline/etc, preserve all merged cells, and preserve all Sheet properties.

Various StackOverflow posts …

I recently fixed an issue in restoremonitors7 that makes it possible to create a shortcut on your desktop (or a batch file) to quickly change your screen resolution and/or number of active monitors to preset settings on Windows 7 …

When playing sound through my ATI HD4350 graphics card through the HDMI port, I was getting many popping sounds – and I found the fix. I am using Windows 7 Professional x64. The video was fine, but the

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Send print jobs to .pdf files silently so that your young kids don’t waste your paper.

My PERL cookbook, notes on how to do some common PERL stuff.

A list of the software that I like to have installed on my Windows machines.

Step by step guide for setting up a free PHP Debugger using Eclipse PDT + XDebug