Windows

Determine uptime on Windows machine

This is quick way to determine when your Windows machine had a reboot. Open a command prompt and type in the following command net statistics server The result could be like Statistics since 18.03.2011 08:19 In Windows 2008, Vista, 7 you can get the same information by starting the task manager and take a look […]

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Windows

Copy EXIF information from one file to another

This is a short post about how to duplicate or copy the EXIF information from one file to another using exiftool. The command comes handy when you have one image with EXIF information and you would like another image to have the exact EXIF information. exiftool -TagsFromFile CopyFromFile.NEF ToFile.JPG This works in both Windows and […]

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Scripting

PHP script to recreate empty WordPress post slugs

This post describes how I managed to recreate empty WordPress 3.0 permalink post slugs with the post title of the blog posts using a slightly modified version of the script found on another blog post named Bulk update post slugs in a wordpress blog. This script became handy since some of my post slugs was […]

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Linux

Installing VMware Workstation 7.1.1 64 bit on Ubuntu 10.10

Installing the 64 bit VMware Workstation 7.1.1 on Ubuntu # ./VMware-Workstation-Full-7.1.1-282343.x86_64.bundle When you try to start VMware Workstation for the first time you will get the following error message You have to read the log file to get the details why VMware would not start, in my case it is named /tmp/vmware-root/setup-24056.log Oct 02 00:10:54.570: […]

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