In iOS7, when you double tap the home button, you not only see the list of apps that are currently running in the background, but also a preview window of each running app. What also changed is the way you shutdown any of the running app from the list. Instead of holding down the app until it’s wiggling and clicking […]
The easy way is to Save As to a Formatted Text file (Space Delimited)(*.prn). But you will be struggled to find out that it’s really hard to precisely specify the fixed-width, almost impossible to use to export the data into a perfect space aligned text file. What I am luck to find out is this with VBA. It’s a far […]
I had a folder on the network named just with a few spaces and I had a heck of difficult time trying to delete it. When I tried to delete it from Windows Explorer, I got message saying that Cannot delete file: cannot read from the source file or disk And when I tried to rename, or copy & paste, […]
I store all my documentations in my Dropbox so I can get access to them at anytime from anywhere. But this morning I found that one of the excel sheet I have in the Dropbox corrupted. And because it’s in the Dropbox, the corrupted version was on every single device I have Dropbox installed. Ooops, even on the Dropbox web […]
SharePoint by default turns on a security feature that prevents people from opening PDF files directly in the browser. Need to open and read a PDF file from SharePoint website you need to download and save it to your local computer first, which is annoying. While I understand the necessity of this feature turned on at a large scaled public […]
I recently had a task job scheduled in one of Windows server 2008 but kept getting a return code 2 every time it runs. Task Scheduler successfully completed task "\RoomView" , instance "{fcc8337a-11b2-4e69-b101-a58bb8d18ead}" , action "C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe" with return code 2. Obviously, even though it says Task Scheduler successfully completed task, the task didn’t complete what it supposed to do. The […]
Believe or not, it’s already 5 weeks into my new job. Even though things are going really well, actually are much better than what I expected indeed, there are a few things that are hard to forget. First, it was the office I had used for the past 7 years. I still miss it, especially the large window, nice dual-monitor […]
If you have touched DOS before, you might still remember what this old school command subst is all about. It’s a command used for substituting local paths on physical and logical drives, known as virtual drives. For example, if you want to have a logical drive P: mapped to a local folder on your computer, say c:\temp, you can simply […]