Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Rimi Tomy Is Pregnant

The Mimomatic (Windows Scripting)

If you know what a script Windows, do not waste your time reading this article. If not, follow these steps:

  • Create a new text file (. Txt).
  • In this file, type exactly this: WScript.Echo "MUAC"
  • Close the file and rename it to mimomatic.vbs . (The extension is fundamental : you should change it from txt to vbs!)

Well, it is: we have created our first Mimomatic , a dispenser of kisses for when we are lacking in affection. Just double click it (Ie run).

Once your emotional deprivation ye weary covered or entangled with the toy, keep reading the article!

Mimomatic Lo is a little ditties, but Windows scripts is no nonsense. On the contrary, is quite important, for good and evil has its good side, its ugly and its bad side. (This sounds like me something.)

The good side is that what you did to create the Mimomatic has been to create a file that, when run, you did what you had told him to do: in this case, draw a box that says "MUAC." Valiente silly, yes, but I could have said made more interesting things and much more: create, delete, modify or verify the existence of files or folders, read and write data files or registry settings in Windows, connect or disconnect network drives, email, create a letter in Word, run the command you want, so long and so scary. In short, the scripts that Windows opens the doors automation of repetitive tasks, which is only interesting if you have anything to do many times or many computers. You just have to write a script time and, thereafter, to repeat the task quickly and without omissions or errors sufficient double-click on the script (or even that, if the task programs).

The ugly side is you have to know how it is encoded that you want the right cacharrín. And this, of course, pull back enough that will be the first time with it. It is also true that for most of the needs of a "typical user", this would be killing flies with cannon . That is why just take hold of the scripts administrators, people or systems testing and other geeks . Are you one of these and you dare to try, you can start reading the page of the parents of the child: page technologies Microsoft script.

But the wrong side of a script to do things is when the script does things you do not want to do, typically because the script is not yours but a man very bad very bad, because either your program mail or you run your browser without your explicit permission, or you yourself have executed (It's so easy to double-click!). Before it was enough to be wary of. Bat,. Com,. Exe and little else. Now, with these old news (from w98 does this equipment) for Windows, you have to be much much much more cautious. What are the most dangerous files? Check out your variable PATHEXT environment. This is the variable that the OS (NT, 2000, XP and Vista) used to resolve names of programs when there is no specified length. Ie the extensions you find there (probably something like . COM,. EXE;. BAT;. CMD;. VBS;. VBE;. JS;. JSE;. WSF;. WSH) correspond to files directly executable. The list, of course, does not end here. So we have no choice but to keep the basic rule : if you do not know what it is and the source is not 100% accurate, do not open .

did you run the Mimomatic? Evil indeed! ;-)

Monday, July 2, 2007

Caso Flashy Flashers Inc. Solution

The name of the thing

If anything I have clear graphical environments is that graphical environments used to graphically display when a user is lost and does not know where to walking.

A test that is what I call "the dance of the hummingbird," referring to the mouse movement that draws the user looking for but not found.

this morning, during a screening test in which they were assessing the computer skills of the candidates, one of them goes and asks me
- Sorry ... is ... I can not open Word, I can not find.

The trouble is that this "story" is too current. The trouble is that less skilled users persist in to use the mouse as if it was more like a hummingbird, and are giving little spin menu in the menu, here and there, trying to find what they seek. The trouble is that nobody teaches them, or they do not learn, how not to lose a minute and a half to do something that takes 3 seconds. With how easy it is to call things by their name!

  • With how easy it is pressing \u0026lt;Windows+R> , write winword and press Enter to open Word !
  • With how easy it is pressing \u0026lt;Windows+R> , write excel and press enter to open Excel !
  • With how easy it is pressing \u0026lt;Windows+R> , write explorer and press enter to open the Windows Explorer ! ( \u0026lt;Windows+E> )
  • With how easy it is pressing \u0026lt;Windows+R> , write iexplore and press enter to open Internet Explorer !
  • With how easy it is pressing \u0026lt;Windows+R> , write notepad and press enter to open the notebook !
  • With how easy it is pressing \u0026lt;Windows+R> , write calc and press enter to open the calculator !
  • With how easy it is pressing \u0026lt;Windows+R> , write cmd and press enter to open the command console !
  • With how easy it is pressing \u0026lt;Windows+R> and write ...!

I'm bored of saying it myself, but I'll say it again more ... One of the biggest profits of the mouse is that you can distinguish bird's eye view of an expert user in a beginner's office: while it just release the mouse, it just picks it up, and, consequently, while he works slowly, it does with efficiency.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Does Shaving Cause A Herpes Outbreak?

Zip, Zip ... Hooray! Memory Problems

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Humorous Wedding Openings



Have problems with your computer memory is rare, rare, rare. Or in two words: very rare. It's weird because memory is a component that, in addition to cheap (pardon me), is quite reliable and usually does not crack. And it's strange because the memory faults manifest themselves in odd ways: it can happen to you, for example, that some applications Crunch occasionally for reasons unknown and unexplained.

When I say I mean crack crack , ie die and they do not give the typical application message sorry, sir, but I could not access this or that and, of course I continue, I'll die . All they'll see is the typical system message saying something like operating the application that died suddenly without knowing how or why I followed this in a stack dump, which is a message written in hexadecimal whose mission is to let the user clear that if Mr. Operating System has failed to explain the cause of death, for it even less.

But where some see problems others are finding opportunities, and that this randomness of the failures of memory can be used in your favor or in pursuit of some noble cause. For example, suppose you are the typical or PcGive or entendidillo Noob to the typical user or nisenimimportaquepaesostastú GGC (Great Freeloader Computer) that comes with that of:

GGC - Hi, Lucas. Look, I miss a rare thing with the computer ...

From the very moment you hear those words ( rare thing), you already have prepared what will be your answer, because you know that GGC comes with the typical intended that you spend your time, knowledge and whatever is necessary to change your smile and, perhaps, a warm handshake. At this time starts a simple procedure: Let the

  1. GGC tell your problem. Make a
  2. battery of questions to GGC GGC the answer will not know. (Optional)
  3. Putting a face and blunt conclusion: Hmnn, this will be the RAM , eh? This is going to have to bring into the store ...

There are many people with no intention of spending any money on anything that "smells" a computer (except the hardware, which is what they can see and touch) are the GGC . Thus, in this way, you've got your bit to make it clear to a GGC that, as there is a mechanical sir you fix the car, there is also a master computer you fix the computer, and both have the same right to eat, the same right to have a house and the same right to take holidays.

On the other hand, may have front who is not a GGC but a IPT (Undesirable Pirate Store). Fortunately, natural selection seems to go running and every time (it seems) there are fewer of them. When an IPT a customer returns a defective RAM, the IPT is considered only three options:

  • I like defective RAM with chips and ketchup. Transform
  • defective RAM on a necklace design and sell it on the trail.
  • Coloco la RAM defectuosa en el equipo del próximo cliente.

Un típico IPT siempre opta por esta última alternativa. Esta es, probablemente, la razón de que todos los IPT de los que he tenido conocimiento hayan acabado cerrando sus respectivas tiendas. ¿Queda todavía alguno? No lo puedo asegurar.


Así pues, tenemos dos situaciones tipo en las que sería deseable comprobar la salud de nuestra RAM :

  • Cuando nuestras aplicaciones cascan sin que podamos encontrar ningún otro motivo.
  • Cuando nos acabamos de comprar la memoria.


Thankfully, check RAM is easy if you know how. For this you need a software specialist: memtest86 +, for example. You can download it free from its website www.memtest.org . It tells you everything you need to know about the program. As you see, is an open source program GPL licensed (or, in Christian better than free). The simplest

under normal circumstances will you download the ISO image and you save it on a CD (do not make the common mistake of saving the file as data instead of burn the image on the CD!). This will create a CD starting with which you must start the machine. Immediately you'll see a blue screen when Windoze those did not exist, in which the program will be telling you what you execute. Since then, all you have to do is wait. It's boring. It is a good time to go plant a tree, write a book or have a child.

not expect the program to finish, because it never ends. The test program and test and test, the Duracell Bunny dies, the program continues to prove, the descendants of the Duracell bunny die, the program continues to prove ... In short, that when you get tired, press Esc to end testing. If you leave a good while running, as icing on the cake. But if there is a memory failure is difficult not to find it in the first pass and found in later passes is much much much harder.

not expect a report at the end of execution. If the program finds a bug (and find where they exist!), You will see: the red over the blue highlights a lot. Otherwise, no news is good news ...