Misc. Writings About Fine Dining, Mixology, and Computer Science
Posted in Tutorials on Jul 22nd, 2009
I get asked a lot, "how do you replace Vista with XP?" I’ve done this hundreds of times since Windows Vista’s inception. The party for Windows XP may soon be over, but before it is, I’ll quickly walk through the problems I went though early on and the steps I took to fix them. Eventually [...]
I was asked the other day to write a program to scrub some 50,000 Microsoft Word 2003 documents of hidden data. I was surprised at first because I had no idea that Word secretly tracked changes in documents and who changed what. Apparently this problem is dangerous to companies in particular. Imagine writing in a [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Aug 31st, 2007
Question: How do I download and burn music?
by Nicole Gaskin
Answer:
by Sean Henderson
There exist many ways to do this. The one I’m going to show you, which is rather easy, involves downloading mp3 files with Limewire, then burning them with Nero Burning Rom, well actually I’ll use smart start, you can use Burning Rom when you [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Mar 7th, 2007
Question: Is there a way in Access 2003 to print a directory list using the dos dir command? I want to add all the subfolders in a given folder into a table.
by Ro Chabot
Answer:
by Sean Henderson
Yes. You can use the oldschool dir command from DOS using VBA’s Shell command. This method however would be cumbersome [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Jan 18th, 2007
The scenario is all too familiar. You buy a laptop at the store because it was cheap, it was on sale, or maybe you just went ahead and blew two grand on it. You get home, open it up, and are greeted by a myriad of startup programs and trial software. The machine runs mediocre [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Dec 10th, 2006
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Question: What’s an easy way to rip audio CDs into MP3s?
by Shawn Schroeder
Answer:
by Sean Henderson
Use Audiograbber 1.83. It’s free, and its easy.
Step 1: Install Audiograbber 1.83
Step 2: First Time Preparation
The first time you run Audiograbber, there are some things you should setup first before ripping. Once you have set up these settings, you [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Dec 3rd, 2006
Question: How do I send an email with a picture in it without sending it as an attachment?
by Rob Nussbaum
Answer:
by Sean Henderson
If I were to send an email with images in it, but no attachment, then I would send an HTML email with the image stored on a web server somewhere. In this particular example, [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Oct 31st, 2006
Windows XP by default comes with a bunch of useless services enabled that waste memory, take up CPU time, and open up security holes. About a year ago, someone told me about this guy on the internet called "Black Viper" who created a table of all Windows XP’s useless services. One of the columns was [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Oct 31st, 2006
To Disable Services in Windows XP, do this:
1) Click Start, then select Run from the Start Menu.
2) Type in "services.msc" (without quotes), then Click OK or press Enter.
3) Right-Click on the Service you want to disable, then Click Properties.
4) Select "Disabled" from the dropdown next to "Startup Type" in the Service Properties dialog, then Click [...]