Heya, maybe you are old school reader of my blogs and you remember when I moved to msmvps.com from blogdrive.com (it didn't support RSS feeds). Now it is time to leave msmvps.com and select new blog provider (if you tried to reach this blog in last 4 days, you know why ;)). Few weeks ago I run into issue with embedding HTML code that contains flash (Jing videos) - this is not possible due to community server configuration. I started to think about moving to different blog provider - ideally big

Yesterday I run into very strange problem with one of my friends - Echo. stopped working. In batch scripts, you use Echo to output something to screen - and of course you can redirect it to file. By using Echo. (mind the dot), you specify that you want to output empty line. So if you want to create empty file from batch, you can use Echo. > c:\Temp\Empty.txt Yesterday one script stopped working - Echo. was not working. It was working for everything else (including log files etc), just not for

I haven't seen PowerShell for last 2 years, so I was pretty curious what will be my learning curve now - if it will be like riding bicycle (once you know it, you will never forget it) or if I will spend countless number of sleepless hours trying to copy one file. Well, I was surprised how easy it was to start using PS... I decided that I will try to do everything from PowerShell today - not only some manipulation with files, but also reading emails, replying to messages or listening to music

Some time ago I mentioned that with new Desktop PC I will post more and more on this blog... If you have a look at posts numbers, you can see that it really happened :) This month I joined company Login Consultants and I really love my new job :) One of advantages is that I am now consultant - which means I could focus on my blog again and post new and new stuff here ;) Another advantage I can see is that I can finally return to PowerShell after years (and now I need to learn it again ;)). Just wanted

After Linux-mania we can see that Mac-mania is starting (in my opinion Apple could have bigger success than Linux due to marketing)... Few years ago everyone was buying iPods - even I bought one for my girlfriend. I really loved iPod itself, but I was never able to get used to iTunes, especially not after I gave a try to Windows Media Player 11 and XBMC ;) For MP3s I used my PDA, old Dell Axim (first version) - it had one huge advantage compared to other MP3 players, enter button was bigger, so when

Sometimes I figure out that solution for some problem I am using is not very common between rest of world, so I will try to share such tricks. One of them is how do I handle websites that require email address for registration. My favorite way to solve it is to use MailExpire - you simply specify your (real) mail address, when you want to expire temporary mail and that's all. For specified time period everything that is send to that mail address (for example turziosior@farifluset.mailexpire.com

I would like to write comprehensive article about symlinks\hardlinks\junctions\reparse points and mount points in future - however that topic is so complex, that I would need to spend few days just to prepare materials etc for this... So for now all I want to tell you is that symlinks were supported by Windows since Windows 2000 - implementation was done through "reparse points", which is something like special tag on NTFS object that allows special FS filter to process them. Biggest limitations

It doesn't make sense to spend time describing what is Goosh all about - go there and try it :D After using it for 2-3 days (I really like minimalistic interface) I even accidentally tried dir few times :) Martin

Well, some people use their blog as reminder - I am one of them ;) It is loooooooong time ago since I wanted to replaced everything in Windows and I modded everything possible and even impossible - currently I prefer mostly built-in utilities, I don't even have FireFox... However there are some utilities that I really need to have on every computer I must work with for more than few days. So I decided to put together list of tools\utilities I like to use for easy reference in future. All of them

First I would like to make big announcement - after almost 3 years I left DHL and joined company called Login Consultants... So after long time I am consultant (again) and you can expect more posts about different problems I encountered during my consultancy career... And I already encountered one during my first day - working with domain-based environment from non-domain computer. As mentioned before, I really love Vista (it took me however some time to get used to it) so I immediately installed