My Computer Adventures

A simple cross-platform tool to import old DBF files into SQL Server.

SQL Server data/log file fragmentation can decrease performance. This post gives some fixes for file and index fragmentation.

pflogsumm is a great tool to generate a (daily) report on Postfix logs. SRS-rewrites invalidate the From-addresses, but the log files can be preprocessed as a workaround.

Zabbix can be used to monitor availability and up-time of a SIP server or phone.

With your databases stored on SSD-disks on fast development machines, it becomes difficult to reproduce performance problems that occur on customer machines. This post gives some tricks to allow troubleshoot performance problems, while still using your fast development machine.

In Microsoft’s RDP client, you can enable a checkbox to save your password. Usually, this doesn’t work, because by default delegating the credentials isn’t allowed by the Group Policy. This post explains how to enable this.

Android Auto is a great application on your Android phone, that integrates seamlessly with all types of new cars. In many countries it isn’t available (yet?), but luckily - with some simple steps - it can be installed and used.

A tutorial on how to compile and run C# application on Ubuntu with Visual Studio Code and .NET Core.

It is quite a challenge to understand the versions and build numbers of the Microsoft build chain. This post tries to list them up…

After running Microsoft Outlook for years without problems, it won’t start anymore after a reboot.

Another user can lock a file on your system when he has opened that file using a Windows network share. This can deny file system operation like moving or deleting, but You can force a close of those files.

Good News! FxGqlC is now also accepted as official Chocolatey package.

A price calculation example to store your data on Amazon Glacier, and a few caveats that you need to consider.

A simple but very useful tool to download one or all (public) Picasa Web Albums of a user. Especially since it is still not clear what the future of Picasa Web Albums will be…

When running Visual C++ code analysis (in the Visual Studio IDE or command line) on a big project, you can get this fatal error: C1060 compiler is out of heap space.

Some guidelines to extract data from BTrieve files using PowerShell.

Code analysis can be extremely useful to detect certain errors that are difficult to find. Enabling it on you Jenkins/Hudson is very easy.

During the last few weeks, my TomTom Live 825M Europe was extremely slow in finding the GPS location.

By default, symbolic links (symlinks) are copyied as they are: pointers. If you want to copy files from a symlink based repository (like GIT Annex), you need to follow the pointer.

This post contains a dirty workaround for blocked Git SSH processes on a Hudson/Jenkins build server.

A simple example on how to solve Merge conflicts in GIT, using kdiff3.

Information about how to upgrade Ubuntu from the command line.

Python scripts can be run seamlessly in a Powershell console window.

An overview of the different external git diff and merge tools, and how to configure them.

A PowerShell script to remove old files.