Mac OSX Command Line Trash

After seeing the link at http://www.interworks.com/blogs/ckaukis/2010/02/11/simple-command-line-trash, I decided to do this… a couple other notes…   Enter  “sudo nano /bin/trash” without quotes, enter your password Enter the following two...

Macro to Remove Hyperlinks in Excel

Removing Hyperlinks in Excel 1. Start the VBA Editor – Press ALT + F11 2. On the left, double click your worksheet or workbook and copy and past the following: Sub RemoveHyperlinks() ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.DeleteEnd Sub 3. Click save. 4. Go back to your...

Change Owner in Windows

How Do I Change the Registered Owner and Organization Name of Windows Scenario:  Either you have purchased a pre-owned PC or you have a PC which has exchanged hands somehow and Windows reports it is registered to a person and/or an organization which is not longer...

Get Service Tag from Command Prompt in Windows

The Problem: You need a service tag quick, fast, and in a hurry. You’re armed with nothing but a command prompt.   The Solution: Open up that command prompt, and type in “wmic systemenclosure get serialnumber” — that’s the magic spell...

Untangle – Track Updates without doing update

Using the Untangle firewall, you may want to know of updates available but not have them automatically applied.  I wrote a quick script to do just that which daily, emails you the result.  It gets the latest version of the of the script from the server and updates...

Bad garbled GSM Sounds on Asterisk after upgrade

Turns out there’s a bug in the optimizations on the GCC compiler.  Previously, was running 4.1; an ubuntu upgrade took it to 4.2 however, the audio on any gsm messages (voicemail, intros, etc) all sounded garbled.  Anything wave played fine.A bit of googling...