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September 20, 2020

Batch script for opening an application at desired window position from command line

Filed under: Uncategorized - 20 Sep 2020

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

September 7, 2020

Check cygwin not in use before updating

Filed under: Uncategorized - 07 Sep 2020

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

Symbolic Links in Windows with Unison

Filed under: Uncategorized - 07 Sep 2020

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

January 1, 2020

Copy an Excel Sheet to a Different Workbook using Apache POI

Filed under: Uncategorized - 01 Jan 2020

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 …

October 9, 2017

Change Number of Monitors/Screen Resolution quickly with Shortcut or Batch file

Filed under: Uncategorized,Windows - 09 Oct 2017

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 …

June 17, 2010

HDMI Audio popping noises on ATI Graphics Card – fixed!

Filed under: Troubleshooting - 17 Jun 2010

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

August 17, 2008

Print to PDF Without Getting Prompted for a Filename

Filed under: Windows - 17 Aug 2008

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

June 17, 2008

Rob’s PERL Cookbook

Filed under: Perl - 17 Jun 2008

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

Windows Software that I Usually Install

Filed under: Tools - 17 Jun 2008

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

June 11, 2008

How To Setup a Free PHP Debugger using Eclipse PDT + XDebug

Filed under: Tools - 11 Jun 2008

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

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