Check Windows installation date

07/01/2008 11:40 | Windows | 9 replies | 25382 views | RSS

Have you ever wanted to know when you installed your Windows? You can use Lavalys Everest to check that date, but Windows includes all the necessary tools to extract that date!

 

Batch change “share” permissions on Windows Shares.

24/12/2007 22:54 | Windows | 3646 views | RSS

If you have plenty of shares in 1 direcory, but the permissions on the share level are all set to “everyone read”, and you want everyone to have “full” rights, you have 2 options: One involves clicking a lot, the other option involves reading on.

 

Classic logon dialog for Windows XP

07/09/2007 11:12 | Windows | 3997 views | RSS

If you don’t like the Luna XP style (who does anyway) and you want to have a Windows 2000 style logon dialog (so without the welcome screen, and without fast user switching), then copy the following in a hurray.reg file and doubleclick it :)

 

Whoops! Comments on Gallery disabled

15/06/2007 13:24 | Site | 3613 views | RSS

Uh oh. I don’t know what I was thinking, but anonymous commenting on my Gallery was enabled. That or I’m hacked :)

 

Remove gradient background from Firefox2’s tab bar

15/05/2007 22:01 | Firefox | 1 reply | 4884 views | RSS

Finally installed Firefox 2 on my machine (actually, installed both, Firefox 1 and 2) and immediately searched on how to remove that fugly gradient background of the tab bar. Too much depth there Mr. Ozilla!

 

Retrieve Serial Tag from a Dell computer using VBS Script

21/03/2007 17:33 | Hardware | 4287 views | RSS

Here ya go, works on every Dell I’ve used it on, and the best part of it is that it doesn’t need the OpenManage tools installed!

 

Wordpress theme Simplifisticate2 1.6

18/03/2007 15:57 | Themes | 3 replies | 12399 views | RSS

After dwelling in the twilight zone called RC1 for over 5 months I found some time to release an official version of Simplifisticate 2 Wordpress theme!

 

Simplifisticate2 beta 1.5 RC2

17/03/2007 17:38 | Site, Wordpress | 2554 views | RSS

Nothing much to say, but weyland.be is now running a RC2 of Simplifisticate2! I didn’t change that much, just some CSS bugs and inconsistencies. I gave up on the next and previous links though, those are giving me a headache.

 

Quick linkcheck

16/03/2007 20:51 | Site | 2371 views | RSS

If you still see a post with dead links, or with pictures not showing, that means I’ve missed one … gimme a yell then ;)

 

Really really welcome to Nostromo!

15/03/2007 19:09 | Site | 2916 views | RSS

Ha! Again! Welcome to Nostromo!! About every page in the weyland.be or damn.be domain should be served by Nostromo now, I don’t think there will be a DNS left which has still the old IP.