AllYourTech.com - Tips

Windows Update or IE Problems?

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:36:10 -0400

Try using this Firefox enabled Windows Update, availabe at:

http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/

Add scroll bars to cmd.exe and command.com

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:30:47 -0500

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.

Change the port Windows Remote Desktop operates on

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:13:27 -0500

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.

Check for a floppy disk in the drive before rebooting a remote server

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:22:28 -0500

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.

Do your own DNS lookups in Linux

Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:14:56 -0500

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.

Forward a page using PHP

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:27:12 -0500

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"); 

?>

Find public download mirrors

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:38:06 -0400

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

Bypass compulsory Web registration

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:33:11 -0400

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

Pick the perfect CMS

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:29:33 -0400

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.

Check your kernel version

Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:24:13 -0400

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