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If you’ve ever used Linux and gotten used to having a command prompt, then going back to the Windows command line is a difficult and frustrating change. Luckily, there’s an amazing program called PowerShell that can alleviate your stress. To open a command prompt in any directory in Windows Explorer, follow these steps to add Read More
Getting started on Linux can be challenging. Largely because the first time user won’t have any idea how to track down potential problems. The following Linux commands are essential to get additional information about your system when something goes wrong. Machine info sudo lshw -html > hardware.html – Creates an HTML page showing what hardware Read More
Wine attempts to create a Windows-compatible layer on top of Linux to allow you to run your favorite programs. Recently, Wine had its 1.0 release and has gotten quite strong when compared to earlier versions. Quicken works reasonably well with wine-1.1.6 and later. With wine-1.1.5 and earlier you’ll need to use a WINE override. That Read More
To get Windows Explorer to open to a default directory, you can create a new shortcut and modify the path. For example, the following shortcut path will open a directory of documents on a shared drive using Explorer instead of the normal window: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,S:\Documents
I often want to have a String description of my beans for debugging or logging purposes, but hate having to manually concatenate the fields in my class to create a toString() method. This code snippet using Apache Commons is very helpful for just such occasions. Thanks to Paul Wilton who suggested this updated code snippet in Read More