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Comment on Forcing users to choose a browser other than Internet Explorer doesn’t help them by Chris Gonyea

Chris Gonyea — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:44:02 +0000

Unfortunately this is a case of the justice system being about 10 years late to the party. Had this been done in 1999, you could argue it would have helped slow down the marketshare losses by Netscape. In hindsight, Netscape’s product was so horrible it may have not made a difference anyways.

However, in 2010 where we have arguably four major browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome) and IE’s share continues to drop every month, there is no need for this screen.

Comment on Quote: Work less, accomplish more by Mark-Productivity501

Mark-Productivity501 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:52:06 +0000

Well I’m glad to see you didn’t stop writing.

Comment on Firefox, LinkButtons, and the Panel.DefaultButton: a (Prototype) fix by fedrok

fedrok — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:07:39 +0000

Hi!
Thanks!
But It’ doesn’t work with FF 3.5.8.
Instead It works good with Google Chrome!

What can I do with FF?

Thx

Comment on How to use REPLACE() within NTEXT columns in SQL Server by Saša Stanković

Saša Stanković — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:40:48 +0000

Many thanks to the Author of the post, and to the John Palmer for the Update SQL version which works great. I needed fast solution to update the links in the web site articles stored in database in a ntext format since the relative paths were changed.

Comment on Forgot your Windows product key? It is recoverable… by Sully

Sully — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:11:07 +0000

there are free software tools for doing that, you dont have to pay.
for finding Xp or Vista product key:
for xp you can use Xp key finder: http://www.xpkeyfinder.com
for vista you can use Vista Key Finder, guess: http://www.vistakeyfinder.com

Comment on Using the FOR command to copy files listed in a text file by PatrickMc

PatrickMc — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:46:42 +0000

Nice problem and solution. Can a scripting langugage such as biterscripting make the task easy ? Here is a script.

# Script CopyFiles.txt
var str src, dest, list, file
cat “/path/to/list file.txt” > $list
lex “1″ $list > $file
while ($file “”)
do
system copy (”\”"+$src+”/”+$file) (”\”"+$dest+”/”+$file)
lex “1″ $list > $file
done

This script is in biterscripting ( http://www.biterscripting.com ). Save the script in file C:/Scripts/CopyFiles.txt. Call the script using the following command.

script “C:/Scripts/CopyFiles.txt” src(”/path/to/source folder”) dest(”/path/to/destination folder”)

Comment on How to use REPLACE() within NTEXT columns in SQL Server by Sateesh Reddy

Sateesh Reddy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:09:33 +0000

This is very very usefull solution which saved my time and got good repo from client. I was having a requirment where i ahev XML message as ntext in SQL table and i need to replace the encoding method from UTF-16 to ISO-8859-1. This solution really helped me. But this won’t work with SQL 2000 as it won’t support nvarchar(max).
ThanQ very much for the solution.

Comment on Forgot your Windows product key? It is recoverable… by Sally

Sally — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:57:04 +0000

Thank you very much ,it is very useful!
There’s also a software that does this at http://www.password-genius.com/how-to/how-to-recover-my-windows-xp-product-key.html. The advantage is that it can even find out your Windows system CD Key when your Windows can’t startup.Also, This software will find many other keys like office XP, office 2007 and more .

Comment on How to use REPLACE() within NTEXT columns in SQL Server by John Palmer

John Palmer — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:46:56 +0000

Note that this is extremely useful as a find and replace to update a column on a given table. I was just hired to clean up a project after a nasty injection attack was performed, and being able to clean out the malicious javascript that had been inserted into the table was made easy via a mechanism like the above.

SQL UPDATE syntax with a replace on a column of type ntext, for those who need it, is here:

UPDATE myntexttable SET myntext = cast(replace(cast(myntext as nvarchar(max)),'find','replace') as ntext)

Always do a SELECT first to ensure the data will be modified as you expect it to be.

Comment on Using the FOR command to copy files listed in a text file by brian

brian — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:52:59 +0000

If your filelist.txt has the full path to the files, you need to do two things:

1. Remove any path prefix to the source parameter of the xcopy command.
2. Remove the first slash in the UNC path in the destination parameter of the xcopy command.

Fortunately the command shell in Windows allows you to specify a substring of characters from a variable (called string indexing, see http://www.dostips.com/DtTipsStringManipulation.php). If the variable %i was your full UNC path, and you want to drop the first character (so you don’t have a double-slash in your path), you can specify %i:~1 — the :~1 says “start from the second character” (strings are zero-indexed, so the first character is at position 0, the second at position 1, etc.).

Your command line can then be:

for /f “delims=” %%i in (filelist.txt) do ( set fil=%%i
echo D|xcopy “%%i” “c:\temp\%fil:~1%” /i /z /y )

You have to set a temporary variable (”fil” in the above), since as far as I can tell string indexing doesn’t work with the %%i for loop variable.