Lesson learned from the presentation “How to Position Yourself for the Future” with Jeffrey Snover and Jason Helmick (from the Q&A session at 1:01:17): you can add a prefix to the commands of a module when you import it! In the Q&A session a guy from audience mentions that a PowerShell module (presumably PowerCLI from …
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toggle window “always on top” via shortcut
When I use Windows I still use the aged tool WinSplit which brings the shortcut “CTRL+ALT+O” with it. This keeps the current window always on top of all other. I wanted this functionality (and the shortcut) also on my laptop which is running Linux Mint. This works without any additional software as the functionality is …
SikuliX – pressing key combinations
I just wanted to quickly automate a task using my favourite tool SikuliX. Therefore I had to make it press a key combination. Trial and error with the first web-results did not work. First, because the syntax seems to have changed and second, because I ignored upper and lower case in my test scripts – …
FileZilla Server – Connection attempt failed with ECONNREFUSED – Connection refused by server
the problem When I was trying to set up a FileZilla Server using FTPS and the default settings I got the error “ECONNREFUSED – Connection refused by server”. the cause This was due to the default parameter for the IP address retrieval. The erroneous script always returns 127.0.0.1. the solution I’ve set up a script …
Robocopy – ERROR 123 (0x0000007B) – copy directories with spaces
the problem Using a current PowerShell with tab completion (the shell adds all quotes and spaces) you get the command: Robocopy.exe ‘C:\tmp\source with spaces\’ ‘C:\tmp\target with spaces\’ /e And executing it you get the error message: Note that the source and target are “strangly” interpreted. The \’ at the end of the source and target …
my favourite radio stations – a link collection for using on the go/mobile
why this? when egofm (my favourite german radio stations) stopped supporting my mobile operating system (ios 5) with their app i looked for the direct link to their stream. i was using direct links for my other favourite radio station somafm for several years and thus created a site with direct links to the streams …
Uninstall Symantec Backup Exec 2014 Remote Agent for Windows Systems (RAWS)
as i couldn’t find a hint on howto uninstall Backup Exec 2014 Agent from my GUI-free Windows Core Servers here a short summary of how you can do it: i found the “_Setup.exe” I was looking for in the following folder C:\Windows\Installer\{856D9205-4AA3-48FB-ADD2-CE6EFF23ED9E}\ to find out how to uninstall the agent i ran “_Setup.exe /?” on …
i’m proud to be in the devolutions’ expert team!
stephanie from devolutions asked me to be in the devolutions expert team. as announced some days ago the expert team consists of currently 10 members (worldwide!). i’m proud and thankful to be in the team and also want to thank devolutions for their great products and listening so well to their community!
german blog
i never thought of writing blog posts in german but i started some projects which apply only to germany and are not computer related. thus it would not make much sense to have them posted here in english only. in case i find the time i will translate any upcoming posts and publish them on the …
the “moss-cup” project – a tribute to the IT crowd
the idea / the object of interest the idea for this project came from The IT Crowd which is/was a British sitcom. i have just found this video over at youtube which will describe it best. video has been removed … the story Moss came in one morning telling his colleague Roy that he …