A while back I wrote about the “death” of my iBook. I’ve been getting by by sharing my wife’s PowerBook (which made things tough when we were working on a website or something) and pressing into service our older Dell Inspiron 5100 (ok, but issues with battery life and the fact that the “T” [...]
Back in the Saddle - sort of
March 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: Programming
Mod_Rewrite to the rescue
March 4th, 2008 · No Comments
My wife and I have a little on-line store and it was being hammered by some sort of spammish attack. As part of this attack, the bot put a domain (e.g. www.whatever.cn) in the query string of the URL. Since our site would never have a string like that as a parameter, I used mod_rewrite [...]
Tags: General
Code From Hell
January 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
There’s a post on Slashdot about understanding unfamiliar code. There are even some good comments/advise. And it got me thinking about the old days (queue Glory Days), and a particularly awful RPG III program I had to maintain.
First, what is RPG III? RPG III was the most widely used language on the IBM System/38, precursor [...]
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More on Cataloging Installed Software
January 17th, 2008 · No Comments
In a follow-up to my posts on using WMI to catalog system components, here’s what I do to separate my software into groups that make the most sense to what I and my department use:
First, you need to create recordsets of the different software apps:
Set colSoftware = WMIService.ExecQuery(”Select * from Win32_Product where _
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What’s on your computer
January 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
A while back I posted a script to report your installed software (Windows only).
I’ve gone a bit further, and have a script that will now report a lot more about your computer. I use it quite often here at work to make sure that what I think is true about a system is true and [...]
Tags: General
