Un-Scratch an LCD Monitor
Thursday, September 2, 2010, 02:07 PM - Technology
I had a scratch in my LCD monitor from a recent move, and was totally bummed. It was over two inches long, and pretty annoying. A little googling came across this website on how to use a clean pencil eraser to remove it. I have to tell you, I had my doubts, but it TOTALLY WORKED! No more scratch, and it looks as good as new!

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Regex Builder
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 02:34 PM - Technology, .NET
I found a great little tool today called Regex Builder. It's a simple .net app that lets you put in a regex string and a piece of text and it will tell you if your regex validates and whether or not your text matches the regex. You can add multiple lines to validate. Great tool, and open source.



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Virtual World
Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 02:34 PM - Technology, XP
I've been playing with some toys that I have found to make my world virtual. After continuous slowdowns on my development machine, etc I decided I would try a reformat, put office and IM on the main machine, and put everything else into a virtual. I'll let you know how that works out soon.

So far I have used vmware convert to convert my hard drive to a vmdk file, and am converting my .vmdk file to a .vhd file so I can use it with Virtual PC. I am also investigating using MakeVM (for $19 how can you go wrong) to go straight to a .vhd.

More on that later.

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Virtual Drives on MyBook's
Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 02:31 PM - Technology, XP
I have been trying for a few days now to get a single, 55gb virtual hard drive (.vhd) to work on my new 1tb MyBook. Every tool I tried, it would get to about 4.1XXXK (just under 4gb) and then it would die, saying that the drive wasn't writable.

After about the 5th try (yeah, I'm that slow) I went to the WD site to see if this was a hard limit, and found my issue. The drive is formatted to fat32, which has a max file size of 4.1gb minus 1 byte. Coincidence? I think not. Now I am waiting the approximately 12 hours to format the 1tb as NTFS and then we'll see if I can't make the move!

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Do you hate ZENworks?
Monday, March 31, 2008, 11:57 AM - Technology, Linux
I you run OpenSUSE like me, you probably run across the "Synchronize with ZENworks" checkbox every time you change your update sources, and occasionally you forget to uncheck it, and it takes FOREVER to synchronize, only to tell you that it failed.

If you hate this as much as I do, then try this:

rpm -e zmd libzypp-zmd-backend sqlite-zmd rug

Presto! zenworks tools are uninstalled, and the option is greyed out in YAST!!

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