I haven’t implemented everything I wanted to in this new version, but I’d say 80% of the stuff is there. Because I didn’t hit the mark on what I wanted to do with this release, the reason it’s coming early is that there have been a couple big bugs that make usability hard for some [...]
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Srt2DFXP version 0.3 is here!
August 2nd, 2010
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A new week and a new release of Srt2DFXP! This release I’ve made some big changes to how the UI and conversion code works together. Now when running a conversion, the UI can be updated and so it can show the progress and in future releases, what it is currently doing. Though it may not [...]
Srt2DFXP v0.2 and a GUI!
July 29th, 2010
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After reading Codeman38‘s blog edit I figured I can’t leave my Windows brethren behind in the dust when it comes to PC vs. Mac. So I whipped up an update to the Powershell script and finished an exe/GUI! Script Changes SubRip parsing is faster (tests with Memento srt file finished in half the time.) A [...]
Restoring Hyper-V VM with snapshot tree
January 27th, 2010
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For whatever reason, you’ve lost your virtual machine settings in Hyper-V and it just so happened they are snapshots. I sure hope that this was a test server and not a production one! Tsktsk! By now, you’ve probably scoured the interweb searching for a cure, and you’re in luck, you’ve found a way to get [...]
Route Kill v2
June 5th, 2009
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Last time around, Route Kill was pretty simple, just misdirect a route. This time, I added a little more code flexibility, some minor network monitoring and a maliciousness not seen before. This time, it kills the route (deletes the route from the table), packets aren’t even misdirected, they go nowhere! To get things ready for [...]
Single exe that can update itself?
May 18th, 2009
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For a while now, I’ve been meaning to make a diagnostic application for my coworkers while they are on the road so that we in IT can see what’s going on in their computers. But the problem has been getting the time to make it and deciding what best way to make it in (compiled [...]
Learning the nuances of Visual Studio
May 16th, 2009
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I’m starting to use Visual Studio and programming more and more in C#. Mostly this is because I’m finding that creating tools with scripts for my end users to be too cumbersome for them to use. PowerShell scripts are not easily launched by a double click, you need to allow scripts in the first place [...]
Multiple UltraVNC 1.0.5 Servers
March 17th, 2009
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Actually, my work on this did not turn out as expected. Things aren’t working that had in theory and not when I try to script out the tasks at hand. But there is a working fix. Project Requirements: Let users initate session for helpdesk. Icon to indicate that a vnc server is running IT can [...]
Ridgewater Slipstreaming and Live Windows CDs
March 6th, 2009
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Hey ladies and gents who came to my presentation on slipstreaming and making live CDs for Windows. Here are those apps I said I’d publish for you last night. (Jim has a copy if you don’t have access to a nice fat pipe.) Slipstreaming and Live Windows CD tools ….And the GoogleDocs -> PowerPoint presentation. [...]
Good thing I took those speech classes!
February 26th, 2009
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Next Thursday I’m delivering a presentation on Slipstreaming Windows XP and how to create a LiveCD version of XP at Ridgewater’s Hutchinson campus around 6:30. I don’t know what room, but I assume it’s somewhere near their classes and labs.
