August 2007 - Posts

Home wireless network
22 August 07 12:06 AM | donovani | 1 Comments   

A week or so ago, I finally upgraded my home wireless network to 54MBit/s via 802.11g . A bit of research led me to choose a Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 router. The stock firmware didn't support some of the features I wanted (like using DHCP to assign static Read More...

Filed under: Hardware

Vista: Open Command Window Here
01 August 07 02:09 PM | donovani | 0 Comments   

Another useful but hard to discover feature of Vista's Windows Explorer is the ability to shift-right-click on a folder and launch a command window at that path: Note that this trick only works in the viewing pane and not in the tree view. Read More...

Filed under: Vista

Vista: Copy as Path
01 August 07 09:43 AM | donovani | 3 Comments   

Useful but hard to discover feature in Vista. To copy a filename with full path information to the clipboard, shift-right-click on a file and choose Copy as Path. For example: Copies the following to my clipboard: "C:\dump\Reports\10435.rdl" Read More...

Filed under: Vista