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Restore Vista MBR

Sunday, June 6, 2010

When I removed a failed to load Kubuntu partition on my dual boot laptop, I did something stupid: I rebooted the computer. Of course I ended up with Grub “Error 22″. Fortunately I had a recovery DVD with system files and after booting from this DVD and getting into the command line, I found file [...]

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Printing from Emacs on Windows

Friday, February 5, 2010

I’m a Emacs guy and this is how I got it printing on on of my Windows boxes (XP SP2) where I already had Cygwin. 1. Install PDF Creator. 2. Update .emacs file with the following: (setenv “PRINTER” “PDFCreator”) (setq ps-printer-name “PDFCreator”) (setq ps-printer-name-option “-d”) (setq ps-lpr-command “/cygwin/bin/lpr”) 3. Print into a PDF file with [...]

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Simple .NET Profiler

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Every developed needs a profiler. When I worked for Cognos our internal standard was Rational Quantify; I think it was alright. Now when I deal with .NET and want to see a physical proof of my internal vision of how my application works I use a profiler from Eqatec: simple and effective if the only [...]

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Good SSH client under Vista

Friday, January 15, 2010

I have been looking for a PuTTY replacement for awhile now not just because it is so old and ugly looking but also because it would drop connections from time to time. Last week I installed a free-for-personal -use version of Tunnelier from Bitvise on my corporate laptop’s stripped down (meaning kindа usable) Vista Home [...]

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My Firefox Plugins

Saturday, January 24, 2009

My list of favorite Firefox plugins.

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