Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Shutdown Command

This article on restarting a remote computer lists the command line arguments for the shutdown command.

SQL Server Code,Tips and Tricks, Performance Tuning: How To Restart A Remote Computer

I've had to use shutdown -a in the past to abort system shutdowns.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Wikiseek

Wikiseek: "A better way to search Wikipedia"

Wikiseek is a Google-like search for Wikipedia and it's external links that also allows you to choose from related categories. It looks pretty cool so far.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

AJAX Patterns

AJAX Patterns: Design Patterns for AJAX Usability

There's also a wiki at ajaxpatterns.org.

Friday, January 05, 2007

PureText

"PureText is basically equivalent to opening Notepad, doing a PASTE, followed by a SELECT-ALL, and then a COPY. The benefit of PureText is performing all these actions with a single Hot-Key and having the result pasted into the current window automatically."