Synergy – desktop sharing for Windows, Linux and Mac OS

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own display. sourceforge.net/projects/synergy2/

Command line shortcut to Windows Components Wizard

Quick and easy way to launch the Windows Components Wizard. You could either run the following command from the Start / Run line or create a shortcut. %windir%system32sysocmgr.exe /i:%windir%infsysoc.inf This will launch the Windows Components Wizard so you don’t have to go the traditional route through Control Panel / Add/Remove Programs.

Windows 7 Command Line Utility for Timezone Management – tzutil.exe

“tzutil.exe” is a command line utility introduced in Windows Vista (also in Windows 7 and Windows 2008) which can be used to change Time Zone or to view the current time zone information. To use this command (from a command prompt as administrator): tzutil /g – To view current time zonetzutil /l – To get […]

Set the Time Zone from the command line on Windows computers

To set the Time Zone from the command line, use: RunDLL32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL %SystemRoot%system32TIMEDATE.cpl,,/Z where is the data value of the Display Value Name, or the Std Value Name ,at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrent VersionTime Zones. You can also use: Control.exe %SystemRoot%system32TIMEDATE.CPL,,/Z . Example:RunDLL32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL %SystemRoot%system32TIMEDATE.cpl,,/Z US Eastern Time NOTE: You do NOT encapsulate the time zone string […]

Installing NCFTP Client on Linux

NcFTP offers many ease-of-use and performance enhancements over the stock ftp client, and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms as well as operating systems such Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X. How To Install wget ftp://ftp.ncftp.com/ncftp/ncftp-3.2.2-src.tar.gz tar -zxvf ncftp-3.2.2-src.tar.gz cd ncftp-3.2.2 ./configure make make install make clean

Command Line SMTP Mailer for Batch Jobs

Bmail is a free but lean command line SMTP mail sender. Don’t get fooled into playing $$$ for huge executables. Bmail allows the user to automate the sending of email messages containing log files, data downloads or error messages on Win32 based computers. Together with the freeware utility mpack, you can also send MIME encoded […]

Windows Command Line Find and replace – Made easy with FART.exe

Here is a great little application that does a find and replace on a particular file, file type or file contents, then replaces it with a string of your choice. It can look in sub directories as well.The small app is called FART, yes that’s right FART – Find And Replace Text! Usage: FART [options] […]

Ubuntu relay email server through ISPs SMTP

Easy way to setup fast, simple and reliable email relay server which will work with ISPs smtp server. 1. Install EXIM4 server: apt-get install exim4 exim4-config 2. run : dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config; choose following config: a: mail sent by smarthost; no local mail b: you domain name (example.com) c: loopback address d: nothing e: domain name […]

How to Install Exchange 2007 SP1 Prerequisites on Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista

Launch a command prompt window as Administrator and run the following in order: ServerManagerCmd -i Web-MetabaseServerManagerCmd -i Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console ServerManagerCmd -i PowerShell ServerManagerCmd -i Web-ServerServerManagerCmd -i Web-ISAPI-ExtServerManagerCmd -i Web-MetabaseServerManagerCmd -i Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-ConsoleServerManagerCmd -i Web-Basic-AuthServerManagerCmd -i Web-Digest-AuthServerManagerCmd -i Web-Windows-AuthServerManagerCmd -i Web-Dyn-Compression ServerManagerCmd -i RPC-over-HTTP-proxy