This is especially needed for any Windows application. It would save the typical user from his/herself. So many apps want to install a toolbar, take over as the default choice, or select some other intrusive behavior as the default. If you could have an app that you run before launching any kind of installation program, and that app just unchecked all the defaults, forcing you to choose the options that you feel are best, well the world might explode.

For Linux it’s a simple shell script, nothing fancy is needed. If the script ends with a 0 exit value, the commit will work, if it exits non-zero, the commit will fail. In Windows the syntax is different because you don’t have a real shell. Instead, you use batch file commands to accomplish the same thing. The logic is pretty much the same because it’s simple.

Internet Explorer garbled the terms and conditions when I installed Google Chrome for Windows. It doesn’t seem to be a language pack thing, so what’s going on here? More importantly, what terms and conditions am I bound by? I accepted the terms you see pictured and installed chrome, so now what?

If you have proxy settings set up in Internet Explorer already, then you can just run proxycfg -u and you’re done. It will add the registry keys for you. In the run dialog (Start -> Run) enter this command. It will flash the command prompt black screen and exit …

Windows & Apps shortcuts

Ctrl + Shift + Esc - Open task manager
Windows Key + R - run dialog
Winkey + D - toggle show desktop
Winkey + E - windows explorer
Winkey + L - lock workstation
Middle click a link - open in new background tab (useful for google, reddit)
Middle click a tab …

This lets you access your Linux home directory and local DVD drive from Windows without having to set up additional cifs/nfs mounts. My home directory is an NFS mount from another server, so you should be able to access *any* file system that is available on your Linux side.

Run Wubi, give it a password, and click “install”. The installation process from is fully automatic from here. The rest of the installation files will be downloaded and confirmed, after which you’ll get the standard windows wants to reboot. Do so and select Ubuntu at the boot screen. The installation will continue for another few minutes depending on how old your machine is and will reboot once again. Choose Ubuntu at the boot screen again and enjoy.

Find computers and their description from the AD, Use LDP to search for tombstoned objects in AD, Show all replicated attributes in the AD Schema, Show an AD schema attribute, Find a list of CNs in the directory and return their homeDirectory, Identify the DN of an Active Directory group, Query a user from AD using WMI, etc.

With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It’s a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other.

When a windows slave asks me why I use Linux instead of Windows “like everyone else”, I’m just going to send them this link from now on. It’s easy to understand for those windows zombies that mope around day after day just doing as their told, drinking the windows …