Try using this Firefox enabled Windows Update, availabe at:

http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/

On a few Windows systems, I've found that by default there are no scroll bars on the side of command prompt windows for going back and reading previous input and output. This isn't a bug or a flaw, but simply a misconfiguration of the screen buffer.

To correct this, right-click on the top-left corner of the command prompt window and choose "properties." Under the "layout" tab, look for "Screen Buffer Size" and change the height setting to something arbitrarily high.

This may vary depending upon your Windows command line of choice and your version of Windows, but the problem is essentially the same.

There are times when you may need to change the port that Remote Desktop listens on for connections. For example, you may be using a router that doesn't support port forwarding or you may want to change ports for security reasons. No matter the reason, this change can be made easily using the Windows Registry Editor.

Using regedit or regedt32, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\ and double-click PortNumber. Select "decimal" and change the current number to your desired listening port.

If you ever have to reboot a server remotely, be sure to check whether or not there is a disk in the floppy drive. It's customary on a server to disable booting to floppies in the BIOS, but on a remote server that you have not personally configured, you can't be too careful.

This will help to prevent late night road trips, downtime, and frustrations that are totally unneeded.

Need to see if your website's DNS changes have propogated yet? At the command line, "host domainname.tld" to look up the DNS redcord of the given host.

Often, forwarding web pages is done with .htaccess. But sometimes you don't want to mess with editing .htaccess (or you may not have access to it). You can do HTML forwarding, but PHP allows you to use a more transparent method (and you'd like to retain referrer information). Just edit the code below and add it to the page in question.

<?php
  header("Location: http://domain.tld/page.php");
?>

Downloads happening to slowly? Try finding a faster mirror using FileMirrors.com.

Don't you hate having to register to access the content of a site? Get help from like-minded folks at BugMeNot.com.

Having trouble picking out the perfect content management system (CMS) for that new Web project? Try using The CMS Matrix to find the one that matches your server environment and needs.

Not sure which kernel version you are running? Run this at the command line for a quick answer to that and a few other questions about your system.

uname -a