Sendmail command line to gmail

Posted on September 19, 2011 by ttessier

Sendmail command line to gmail

Had a requirement to send an email to myself from a script. Was surprised to find out that it is quite possible and not necessarily 100% intuitive but works.
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Dot Net Regular Expression Callback

Posted on September 9, 2011 by ttessier

Dot Net Regular Expression Callback

Want to learn how to use regular expression callbacks in dot net languages? The following examples will be using c# for starters but you can easily translate that to vb. Optionally if anyone requests I can translate that to VB and send it.
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Letters Missing From PDF

Posted on September 8, 2011 by ttessier

Letters Missing From PDF

Having trouble with letters missing from your pdf content when you copy it to web? I noticed this issue before which I at first thought to be a corrupted PDF, but the PDF itself retained the information.

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Ajax DNS Down?

Posted on September 1, 2011 by ttessier

Ajax DNS Down?

If you have ever needed to check dns propagation for yourself or a client, I am sure that you have used tools such as nslookup and possibly even dig. There are other tools, however, that you can use to check dns remotely or outside your network. One such tool can be found at www.ajaxdns.com which I have used religiously but for some reason today it seems to be under scutiny with editdns.com until sept 9 2011. As it is, there appears to be an acceptable alternative at: http://www.dnsbench.com/. I really hope that this can be resolved soon as I really enjoy ajaxdns.com

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Check Windows OS Version and architecture

Posted on August 31, 2011 by ttessier

Check Windows OS Version and Architecture Information

You can use the My Computer or Computer interfaces found within the Start Menu or on the Desktop.

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Testing Change System Time ability in Windows XP

Posted on August 31, 2011 by ttessier

Testing Change System Time

 

If you want to see whether or not you can adjust the System Time in Windows XP, there are two logical locations. The first is by double clicking on the time in the task tray. The second is from the control panel.

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Revoke or Grant Change System Time Windows XP

Posted on August 31, 2011 by ttessier

Revoke or Grant Change System Time Windows XP

From time to time the need is apparent to be able to restrict the ability to change the system time in windows XP. The following article and picture series depicts the process in Windows XP Pro using the Local Policy Editor.

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Updates

Posted on August 23, 2011 by ttessier

Recently there has been somewhat of a hiatus from the SwhistleSoft Team, due to projects and other engagements. Lets call this a sort of summer hiatus and get ready for some quality articles in the upcoming fall tech season. It has come to our attention that some of the features of the introduction to CMS are not as useable as people may like. We are looking into a solution to this in order to help our  clients learn to use these systems effectively. Comments are welcome, but we are most likely going to set up a sort of client sandbox with a login so that clients can reset their own environment as well as control access to the environment.

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Lame Scripting Awards

Posted on August 10, 2011 by ttessier

Lame Scripting Awards

How many people have been using cat to open files in their shell only to pipe the output to another command, or how many have piped things to wc -l from grep? Don’t understand what I am talking about, and want to be enlightened? Check out: Useless use of cat award. This is an old article but the information is probably more relevant than some other information presented in class or online. Lets be honest though and realize that there is more than one way to skin a scripted cat.

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