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Getting Permanent Marker off a Whiteboard
The other day while taking notes during a conference call I accidentally wrote on my whiteboard with a Sharpie marker. After several minutes of swearing I remembered a tip I had heard years ago. Using a white board marker scribble … Continue reading
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Batch gpg Decrypt and Unzip
In Linux: To batch decrypt with gpg: echo {yourpassphrase} | gpg –passphrase-fd 0 –decrypt-files *.pgp To batch unzip: unzip “*.zip”
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Common SQL Server Troubleshooting Queries
Last Query for All Open Connections (source): SELECT * FROM sys.dm_exec_requests er CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(er.sql_handle) AS t Number of Open Connections (source): SELECT DB_NAME(dbid) as DBName, COUNT(dbid) as NumberOfConnections, … Continue reading
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PayPal Link Generator
PayPal used to let you create a payment link in addition to the current payment button. The link was nice for a quick and dirty method when the button wasn’t needed, but PayPal seems to have done away with it. … Continue reading
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Quick DVD Backup to ISO on Linux
I often want an easy command line way to easily backup a standard definition (non-BlueRay) DVD to and ISO image. The command line is nice because I can do it remotely on an idle MythTV Frontend machine and can copy the … Continue reading
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Remove Unsed Linux Kernels
I hate manually cleaning out all of the old kernels here is a script to do it for you: dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge … Continue reading
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DSM Links
Road Racing Upgrade Path: http://www.dsmtuners.com/1g_dsm_road_racing_setup
Spam-me-not E-mail Link Obfuscator
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/email/encode/
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Ultra Marathon Race Web Sites
http://www.marathonguide.com/races/races.cfm http://www.ultrasignup.com
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Roomba Blink Error Codes
The little light to the left of the Clean light on the 500 series, which if it is there can look like either a little Roomba or an exclamation point is called the Check Robot light (according to the Customer … Continue reading
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