You know, I wonder how much money could be saved if more people worked at home?
With video and teleconferencing technology where it is I really don’t see why we can’t.
http://lifehacker.com/5295818/simulate-office-presence-with-skype-and-vnc
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Jan 082009
After discovering that my development machine was getting bogged down like you wouldn’t believe, I decided that I could trim some of the processes and services down. One of the biggest offenders was Sql. I don’t need to have sql running ALL the time. So why have it start when I log in?
I first created a few batch files using the net start and net stop commands. I then created this little app that will run in the system tray and read the contents of a folder and create a context menu item for each batch file. Then when I right click the icon in the tray and choose an entry it kicks off the selected batch file giving me quick access to start and stop my processes (or run any command or shortcut for that matter).
I am cleaning up the project and I will put a good clean build up here soon.
Oct 152008
I have found a few nifty ways to copy your settings for Putty. Putty is a windows SSH client allowing a secure cli (command line interface) to *nix based servers. I use it daily for various tasks related to managing the Ideas Unleashed servers. I do have a habit of formatting my systems semi-frequently, at least once a year, so keeping track of bookmarks, Filezilla settings (a topic for a future blog), Putty settings, and many other things difficult.
However, saving and restoring your Putty Settings is a snap! From the Start -> run dialog, run this command to place a .reg file on your desktop that you can merge on another windows system to copy your putty settings.
regedit /e “%userprofile%\desktop\putty.reg” HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Simontatham
Thanks to Joe Mansfield’s comment for the shortcut!
