While trying to find a way to probe CPU temperature in some simple way, preferably form VBS and WMI. My friend found a nice tool that help you browse WMI classes and generates simple VBS, C# or VB.NET code. WMI Code Creator v1.0 Unfortunately while Win32_TemperatureProbe has CurrentReading prperty, it’s …
The TcpTrace by Simon Fell, is one of those tools I can’t live without. It’s a proxy for TCP connections that shows actual content of messages exchanged between hosts. It always come handy when you need to see an actual Web Service call content or just check those HTTP headers …
I’m always looking for tools & examples when doing something new, today I accidentally came across Chris’s Free Developer Tools page on http://www.sellsbrothers.com. It looked familiar although I don’t remember actually using or checking it’s contents, I’m sure I’ve been there before. There is so much stuff to check out …
There are times when you have to integrate with a system. You do everything as documentation said you should, you run your integration test and… fail, …miserably, …with non-informative exception and no clue whatsoever. You tell the „other guys” that either their system does not work as expected or the …
You’ve always have some junk or temporary files laying around. Everybody sooner or later have to figure out they’re own way to archive them or just store them temporarily in some other place that your project main dir, your hard drive main dir, or desktop. I’ve seen a few practises …
Lately I’ve been watching a lot of youtube, comedy mostly. Those have especially caught my eye. Have fun.
As of today my Pandora stations stopped working because of licensing constrains.
The easies way to know your group membership details, SID values, etc. A developer must have WhoAmI. Update 2007-06-05. You can probe for WhoAmI information by WMI (see WMI Code Creator). If you’re looking just for SID numbers of a particular group’s, here an example script: strComputer = „.” Set …
I had i few moments in my life when I tried to work on windows with „Normal” user privileges, they always failed when I had switch accounts, then when runas was just not helping. I gave up some while ago. Just by coincidence I have found a sudowin tool that …
Today I have beed cursing VS2005 for it’s stupidity and lack of error descriptions, it showed me a very informative message box: An unexpected error has occured. Object reference not set to an instance of an object. … they could added a nice icon of „the finger”. I tryed to …
