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Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUI). Microsoft Windows eventually came to dominate the world's personal computer market, overtaking OS/2 and Mac OS which had been introduced previously. At the 2004 IDC Directions conference, IDC Vice President Avneesh Saxena stated that Windows had approximately 90% of the client operating system market.
Advanced Windows Batch File Scripting
If for some reason you need to use windows .bat batch file scripting to do some task, or you just want to learn the most universal batch programming language on Windows machines, you lucked out and found the AskApache example. My expertise is the shell, in this article the shell is Windows cmd.exe. It has some pretty advanced windows shell usage, including pipes and redirection, but it's the modular linux-like coding approach that earns this script it's "advanced" title.
:SETPROMPT set PROMPT=$_[%USERNAME%@%USERDOMAIN%]$S[$P]$_$M$G && EXIT /B
My favorite tool (and I've tried sooo many) for editing most Windows files and especially .bat files is the free and open-source Notepad++. Set that up and you will have a color-syntax-highlighted editor for Batch Scripting that works very very well.
Debugging Tools for Windows
I am almost ready to publish the final tutorial on using ssh tunnels from a truecrypt partition on a Windows machine. Of course I choose to go way overboard in my research and the tutorial is full of some pretty awesome windows tricks.. I will come back to this post soon and post all the other advanced tools I use for debugging windows, for now though you MUST know how to debug the kernel and use these basic debugging tools.
Windows Optimization – Intense Part II
If you ever wanted to know the best way to defragment and speed up your Windows-Based PC, I mean you really wanted to know, here is the 2nd part to my article on Windows Speed Optimizing that details the process I have found works really well. Definately not a quick process, and certainly not the best ever, just my best ever and one that you only have to do once to get the benefits.
This article has a lot of incredibly useful (and FREE) tools I recommend, which you can grab and use without reading the article..
Make Windows XP Blazingly Fast
Here is the basic process that I use to speed up Windows. A lot of good tips and tricks I've picked up over the past 15+ years of crashing and burning Windows that can transform your PC to be much faster than its ever been. The process focuses on freeing up RAM/Memory, freeing up your CPU/Processor, and optimizing your Hard Drive for a permanent solution.
Make sure to check out the free software I recommend at the end, installing them after this optimization process will keep your machine fast for a long time.
Custom Boot Menu in Windows XP
One of the first things that I do upon receiving a new Windows computer is immediately create a poweruser-style customized boot menu. Then every time I boot I can choose Safe Mode, Recovery Console, Debug, whatever I want! It's quick and easy to set-up and everyone should have one, soo sweet!
My Online Tools
- Base64 Image Converter
- Raw HTTP Header Debugger
- Text to ASCII-Picture
- .htpasswd file Generator
- Who Am I
- JavaScript Beautifier
- Compress CSS
- Mac Address Vendor Lookup
- askapache:
Today in 1965 DEC announces PDP-8
- hubail:
RT @askapache: Make sure you unplug your Ethernet when leaving the room, or disable wifi
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Make sure you unplug your Ethernet when leaving the room, or disable wifi
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My servers, and me, are getting annoyed. Fail2ban works fairly well against all the Chinese brute forcing going on
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Can't the Chinese stop ordering their hackers to hack us? Ugh
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All I want for my bday is a bottle of American whiskey :)
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The first Dino fossil wasn't found until 1822, we sure are young
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Htaccess - Ultimate HowTo: t.co/XMmRKFIWuG
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Show Events that Occurred on this day in the Past: t.co/5u33s4OolA
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Linux / UNIX: Create Large 1GB Binary Image File With dd Command t.co/2xs3pvudOz via @nixcraft
My Picks
- THE Ultimate Htaccess
- Mod_Rewrite Tips and Tricks
- Crazy Advanced Mod_Rewrite
- THE Mod_Rewrite Cheatsheet
- Debug Linux with Kernel Parameters
- HTTP Status Codes
- Custom php.ini Tips
- Fsockopen: PHP Socket-Level
Live Free or Die
Website Speed Tips Series
- Turn On Compression
- Add Future Expires Header
- Add Cache-Control Headers
- Turn Off ETags
- Remove Last-Modified Header
- Use Multiple SubDomains
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A strong free software movement focused on the principled issues of software freedom and a strong FSF in particular will determine what freedoms the next generation of computer users enjoy. At stake is no less than the next generation's autonomy. -Benjamin Mako Hill
WordPress Development
Hacking and Hackers
The use of "hacker" to mean "security breaker" is a confusion on the part of the mass media. We hackers refuse to recognize that meaning, and continue using the word to mean someone who loves to program, someone who enjoys playful cleverness, or the combination of the two. See my article, On Hacking.
-- Richard M. Stallman
It's very simple - you read the protocol and write the code. -Bill Joy
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