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Launch files and load URLs from the command line

Posted: Saturday, June 10th, 2006 @ 10:41 am in MS Windows | Comments Off

Here’s a couple of tips I discovered while writing a script to analyze my web logs and then load the .html file with the analysis in a browser*:
Problem #1 - Have a script load an .html file in your browser (under MS Windows)
Solution - Run the command: start fileName.html
Problem #2 - The start command does [...]

Create Hard Links in Windows

Posted: Friday, June 2nd, 2006 @ 11:51 pm in MS Windows, Operating Systems | No Comments »

This spring I took a course in Operating Systems. Towards the end of the course we studied file systems and learned about link files in Unix. Creating a link makes it look like you have two copies of a file but what you really have is one physical copy of a file and [...]

Windows XP Home LUA Workaround

Posted: Sunday, May 14th, 2006 @ 10:08 pm in MS Windows, Operating Systems | Comments Off

I use the version of Windows that came with my computer (XP Home) since I’ve never had a deal-breaker reason to upgrade to XP Professional. When I want to run something that requires XP Professional, like Oracle, so far I’ve been able to install the software on Linux instead. I also like run [...]