^^^^! (swidt?)

8/15/2010 2:04:37 AM

in Windows 7 you can middle-click a running program in the taskbar to open a new window of it

you can also wait for the preview windows for a program to appear, and then middle click the preview windows to close that window

more here: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/d1brf/til_that_in_windows_7_i_can_middleclick_a_running/

8/15/2010 11:02:24 AM

well shit. that is useful

8/15/2010 1:13:47 PM

Thanks for that link, I just learned a few useful shortcuts.

8/15/2010 1:17:09 PM

awesome link

Quote :

"Win+Up maximizes. Win+Down restores, Win+Down again minimizes. Win+Right pins the window to the right side of the screen. Win+Left pins to the left."

8/16/2010 12:08:37 AM

Quote :

"in Windows 7 you can middle-click a running program in the taskbar to open a new window of it"

haha i just did this like 8 times to a program because the animation was sweet.

but that is a sweet shortcut.

8/16/2010 1:57:06 AM

pushd + popd

9/1/2010 4:58:49 PM

Today I learned how to auto-mount a network drive on startup on a Mac. Now I will still be able to remotely get to all my music on Orb even if my computer has rebooted recently.

9/2/2010 2:07:44 AM

Move syscall number into EAX, call the kernel with interrupt 80h, OH SNAP.

9/2/2010 7:19:10 AM

Quote :

"in Windows 7 you can middle-click a running program in the taskbar to open a new window of it"

There's also a nice plugin you can get that allows middle-click window closing from the taskbar: http://lifehacker.com/5262386/middle+click-to-close-applications-from-windows-7s-taskbar

9/2/2010 9:08:43 AM

maybe i'm misunderstanding something

isn't that the same as the other half of joe#s post?

Quote :

"you can also wait for the preview windows for a program to appear, and then middle click the preview windows to close that window"

and isn't that part of win7 and not a plugin?

so confused...

[Edited on September 2, 2010 at 9:59 AM. Reason : oic now. the taskbar shuffle app link http://lifehacker.com/5239479/ i like that]

9/2/2010 9:47:38 AM

With Exchange 2010 SP1, you no longer have to have outlook installed to export mailboxes to PST.


http://exchangepedia.com/2010/08/exchange-2010-sp1-has-left-the-building.html

9/3/2010 8:19:41 AM

^^ It seems to be, but I'm 99% sure I had to get a "plugin" (or more like a third party thing to turn on a registry setting that was buried somewhere) in order to get it working.

Either way, it's awesome.

9/3/2010 10:07:46 AM

in Windows, you can drag a file to an open command prompt window and it'll paste the path to the file

9/8/2010 5:09:26 PM

After missing one too many phone calls because I couldn't feel my phone vibrating, I figured out how to use Tasker to pass the phone number calling me to my laptop's Web server via an HTTP request then use a Bash script to alert me via notify-send.

9/8/2010 9:22:19 PM

sounds cool

9/9/2010 11:40:22 AM

^That sounds overly complicated. There are apps that do that sort of thing:

http://www.androidcentral.com/remote-notifier-android-forward-notifications-your-phone-your-computer

9/9/2010 11:40:34 AM

Easier yet:
http://lifehacker.com/5633074/android-notifier-sends-notifications-from-your-phone-to-growl

9/9/2010 11:48:49 AM

but i dont have android

[Edited on September 9, 2010 at 12:03 PM. Reason : ddd]

9/9/2010 12:02:58 PM

i learnt today that CTRL+Click in firefox identifies table cells.

Easier than opening up Firebug.

9/9/2010 12:38:19 PM

Yeah, that's easier.

Except I don't run OS X on my laptop.

And I didn't want to install another fucking app when I had all the resources I needed to satisfy the need already.

I mean...?

I LEARNED HOW TO DO SOMETHING

AND THAT SOMETHING WAS NOT "HOW TO DOWNLOAD SOME OTHER JERK-OFF'S APP"

plus look at that dude's debian package

it's fucking 4.5 MB for the one i'd have used

on top of another goddamn app running on the phone

all i had to do was write the friggin' cgi script (less than 10 lines)

and set up a new task on tasker

[Edited on September 9, 2010 at 1:07 PM. Reason : jesus]

9/9/2010 1:00:11 PM

wait, didn't you have to install Tasker to be able to do that? so you did install an app....

FWIW, i do like your method better, and I do hate redundancy

9/9/2010 1:23:22 PM

I had Tasker installed anyway, just like I had Apache installed anyway.

9/9/2010 2:40:07 PM

TIL I can back up MSSQL tables individually using bcp. I knew how to back up entire databases, but never had a way to backup specific tables and was always told it wasn't supported

and not only that, i can give it a query, and back up just a portion of a table.
and not only that, it's command line, so i can automate it

[Edited on September 28, 2010 at 1:49 PM. Reason : WORD]

9/28/2010 1:49:30 PM

never really done a lot with active directory

today i figured out

net group /domain Developers

net user /domain kwarner

10/5/2010 4:39:33 PM

on the win7 taskbar, you can left click + hold down on a application icon and drag away and you'll get the context menu

10/7/2010 4:58:18 PM

Something new I learned about Python and how it handles default argument values...

I had a setup like this, and I took out a ton of code that was unnecessary for this example:

class Project:
  def __init__(self, tasks={})
    self.tasks = tasks

  def add_task(self, id, name)
    self.tasks[id] = name

class Main:
  def __init__(self):
    self.projects = {}

  def add_project(self, id)
    self.projects[id] = Project()

p = Main()
p.add_project(1)
p.add_project(2)
p.projects[1].add_task(1, 'first')
print p.projects[1].tasks[1]
OUTPUT> first
print p.projects[2].tasks[1]
OUTPUT> first

class Project:
  def __init__(self, tasks=None)
    if tasks:
      self.tasks = tasks
    else:
      self.tasks = {}

10/27/2010 1:19:24 PM

what rainbow tables are (not what I had thought and not what I had read earlier in multiple places)

10/27/2010 1:52:58 PM

Quote :

"on the win7 taskbar, you can left click + hold down on a application icon and drag away and you'll get the context menu"

that may have just change my world a little bit for the better.

10/27/2010 2:00:32 PM

that http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/ has free RCs of full programs...

11/1/2010 11:39:28 PM

TIL that with very little social engineering, you can get almost any information from an ISP regarding one of their customers.

12/29/2010 9:26:54 PM

VB.net StreamWriters use UTF-8 as the default encoding. I needed ANSI the whole time!!!! Encoding.GetEncoding(1252) fixed that right up.

*VS2008, .net 3.5...YMMV w/ 2010 & .net 4.0...haven't used that yet.

12/30/2010 3:03:24 PM

Quote :

" TIL that with very little social engineering, you can get almost any information from an ISP regarding one of their customers. "

I learned this recently while subletting an apartment and having comcast problems. I talked to maybe 3 reps before I had billing address, phone number, and emails all tied to an account. By this time I had enough info to finish what I needed so I didn't continue. But it sketched me out at their willingness to expose information.

12/30/2010 6:00:30 PM

I had my regular expression incorrect.

I had this:

X='([a-fA-F0-9]{2}[:|\-]){6}'

X='([a-fA-F0-9]{2}[:|\-]){5}[a-fA-F0-9]{2}'

1/3/2011 10:54:36 AM

Today I learned

I know absolutely nothing about netsh.exe

1/4/2011 3:55:08 PM

i learned that i need to learn something new this year

1/4/2011 4:02:12 PM

today i learned when Koreans go back to their country and then come back here they some how download every virus on the internet.

1/4/2011 4:22:51 PM

Just in case you ever wanted to find your own 0-day: http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2011/01/announcing-crossfuzz-potential-0-day-in.html

1/4/2011 7:44:11 PM

^^lol

1/4/2011 7:47:55 PM

^x3 Story Time!

1/4/2011 8:50:47 PM

TIL

Visual Studio 2010 has an extension that gives you Launchy-style searching. I've been wanting this FOREVER and apparently I've had it installed for months and didn't even realize it. I'm so happy

1/7/2011 12:07:42 AM

Quote :

"^x3 Story Time!"

upon return from korea I get the usual "nothing works" call, so i go check it out.

Some how all the mapped drives on about 5 laptops got erased. (this just reinforced my goal to use loginscripts). I guess their IT dept. there thought it would be funny to erase them.

Illegal operation on boot up of our accounting software. Had to reinstall that.

And one korean had a virus that was just sending requests to random websites bringing our internet to a crawl. Had to run combofix to get that one out.

1/7/2011 8:13:40 AM

The number of ways in which malicious Javascript can hide itself and evade code emulation and other forms of detection is mind-boggling: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.sophos.com/security/technical-papers/malware_with_your_mocha.pdf

1/12/2011 11:11:19 PM

This lists nearly every public and not-so-public DNS server out there: http://www.chaz6.com/files/resolv.conf

1/23/2011 7:37:43 PM

http://www.networkoverload.com/
This site has emulators for email clients, web browsers, and operating systems.



Great tool for walking grandma through the clicks.

2/8/2011 11:27:08 PM

the evolution of exploit packs...when Eleonore is one of the "early" ones you know it's been happening fast

2/24/2011 3:19:16 AM

Now you can see what today's Web looks like in IE6, without digging up IE6 itself: http://ie6ify.com/

3/17/2011 8:35:17 PM

today i learned that lenovo and ibm do not share U.S. factories...i don't know why i thought they did but I've held that belief for years so now i'm upset that my new laptop won't get here anytime soon even though i ordered it last week because it's coming from China...

3/18/2011 11:00:20 AM

excel camera. freaking awesome. how have i never heard of this??

http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/12/02/excel-camera-tool-help/

4/1/2011 7:25:40 AM

Today I learned that Natali Morris (Cnet video host) has ginormous sweater puppies

http://cnettv.cnet.com/mobile-payments-fact-near/9742-1_53-50102632.html?tag=cnetRiver

Also looking forward to using mobile phone like a credit card in this country.

4/1/2011 1:40:18 PM