Checking User Logins on a Remote Server

Needed to check the logged in users on a server recently and couldn't remember the QWINSTA (Query WINdows STAtion) command or find my previous post about it so I figured I'd do another post on the issue and include the words I searched for when I didn't find it.

Managing Terminal Services Session Remotely: "Windows 2000+ (includes Windows XP and 2003) have two command-line tools called qwinsta and rwinsta that can query and reset a remote session."

The Query Session command is the replacement for qwinsta on Windows Server 2008.

Fractal Desktops

Fractal Desktops: "Mandelbrot set images for the desktop."

Celebration from their Best of 2004 collection is one of my favorites.

Free File Difference and Merge Tools

DiffMerge from SourceGear
WinMerge which is Open Source

Iris - Free Syntax Highlighter

Iris - Free Syntax Highlighter: "Iris is an open source syntax highlighter built in C#. It has a rich web interface that lets you highlight nearly 500 syntaxes"

Visual * 2008 Express Edition

Here's a couple of links to remind me to download this stuff. :)

Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition

Visual C# 2008 Express Edition

40 Bloggers Over 40

I figured I'd post a link to this article on bloggers over 40 as I will be joining their ranks in a matter of days.

JavaScript Libraries

Some of the JavaScript libraries I've been using lately:

• Prototype (and here's more info on using Prototype)
• Control.Modal which uses Prototype to create modal windows.
• Ext has some pretty interesting user interface elements. It uses Prototype and Striptaculous. (Ext demos and documentation)

MailTo Links

This site has some useful info on the mailto syntax. They've also got a page for encoding email addresses to help stop spam.

XSL Textarea Collapse Problem

Heuristic Blog has an solution to collapsing textarea controls.

XSL Textarea Collapse Problem : "a hack that seemed to do the trick: inserting a <xsl:value-of select="@unknown"> tag pointing to an unknown attribute."

Make the Logo Bigger

MaketheLogoBigger.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

VS.NET Macro To Group and Sort Your Using Statements

David Findley's Blog : VS.NET Macro To Group and Sort Your Using Statements: "This macro will take the current selection, parse it for using statements, group and sort them..."

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.

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.

AJAX Patterns

AJAX Patterns: Design Patterns for AJAX Usability

There's also a wiki at ajaxpatterns.org.

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."

Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks

Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks

Fun With Pie Charts

Here's a few links with some funny pie charts:

Percentage of Chart Which Resembles Pac-Man

Percentage of Chart Which Resembles Ms. Pac-Man

Notoriety as Renaissance Artists vs Ninja Turtles

We Have Pie Charts

What American Accent Do You Have?

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland   "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
North Central
The West
Boston
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The Northeast
The South
What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes

Good Agile, Bad Agile

Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

This was the source of a few good laughs as I'm stuck doing Bad Agile and was rubbing my stiff neck when I read his quote about Scrums causing neck damage.

Some cool links

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

Here's a webpage with an area 17 billion times the surface area of the Earth.

Here's an explanation of why .99... = 1
And Wikipedia has some proofs and a page on recurring decimals.