New PC

I'm in the progress of migrating to my new Dell Precision 380 Pentium D with dual flat screen monitors at work so I figured I'd post some links to info I've found useful when switching machines.

Disable Windows Server 2003 Shutdown Event Tracker

Command Prompt Here

Internet Explorer 5 Web Developer Accessories for the view partial source feature.

WMF Vulnerability

Microsoft Security Advisory (912840): Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution.

Here's a patch for the WMF vulnerability that the SANS institute is recommending.

VMTN - Browser Appliance Virtual Machine

browse the Internet with Firefox in a virtual machine

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

A list of some useful free utilities including anti-virus software.

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

24 Ways to Impress Your Friends

The 24 ways site appears to be posting a cool web development article a day that you can use to impress your friends.

Day 1 was on the Prototype Ajax library.

intensivstation :: CSS Templates :: Templates

Here's some possibly useful CSS Templates
intensivstation :: CSS Templates :: Templates

Fun With C# and HP Laserjets

Don't know if I'd dare try this but we've got HP printers at work.
Fun With C# and HP Laserjets

10 Useful JavaScript Functions

Here's Dustin Diaz's list of the top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time. They look like they could be useful.

Dactyl Fractal Zoom

A flash animation of Fractal Fingers.

PromptSQL: SQL Intellisense for MS Query Analyzer, VS.NET 2003, Management Studio and VS 2005

PromptSQL: SQL Intellisense for MS Query Analyzer, VS.NET 2003, Management Studio and VS 2005: "PromptSQL provides SQL Intellisense style word completion for various Microsoft SQL editors, and UltraEdit."

Fractal Food

Fractal Food: "Romanesco (as I'll refer to it henceforth) is a member of the species Brassica oleracea L., which includes cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, collard greens, kohlrabi, and numerous other 'cultivars' (cultivated variations)."

Cool looking fractal relative of broccoli and cauliflower.

Update: Found some Romanesco links on Metafilter.

Inside Outlook Express

Inside Outlook Express: "Help, tips, FAQs and technical information to help you use, understand, and repair Microsoft Outlook Express for Windows"

Google Logo Maker

Logogle converts the text you enter into Google logo style.

Here's an example that crosses the Whole Wheat Bagel site with Google to produce Whole Wheat Baagle.

Context Free

Context Free: " Context Free, an environment for editing and rendering CFDG design grammars."

Design grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules that produce images.

Doskey

To my surprise Doskey still exists in XP

To create a batch program named Tmp.bat that contains recently used commands, type:

doskey /history > tmp.bat

Removing the Dotted Border From Active Links

I've got some pages that use link based CSS tabs and I've finally stumbled upon a method for preventing the dotted border from showing up on active links in IE.

hideFocus: "use the HIDEFOCUS attribute to prevent a focus rectangle from appearing "

Spring Flowers 2005

Here's some pictures of some of the flowers that bloomed in my yard this spring.


Spring Flowers 


Spring Flowers 


Spring Flowers 


Spring Flowers 

Amaryllis 2

This is the second flower stalk that my amaryllis plant grew this year. This one only produced three flowers and was leaning to the side so I propped it up on the railing between the living room and the kitchen.


Amaryllis stalk 2 

Revert to Saved

Revert to Saved: "Most other word processors and layout programs put a Revert to Saved command right on the File menu. This allows for a quick return to the last saved version of a file. This hack shows you how to add this feature in Word"

Amaryllis

Here's a picture of my amaryllis plant. I took this picture a few weeks ago of the first flower stalk of 2005. Currently stalk number two is about to flower. I'll probably post some pictures of that one after it opens since this experiment in photo blogging seems to have worked out well.


Amaryllis