Author: jiehong

Why use bloatware like Adobe Reader ?

Adobe Reader 7.07 – 20.3MB
Adobe Reader 6.0.1 – 15.9MB
Adobe Reader 5.05 – 9.9MB
Foxit Reader 1.3 – 1.11MB, Uncompressed exe 2.42MB

Single executable file. Faster launch times. Adobe Reader look and feel. Do the comparison.

Of course in Linux, there is always Evince

Not the whole world but… I just came across this. An open source gaming console ??

Offical site here, wonder is there any units in Singapore yet ?

I had a major problem. I have to “analyze” Windows event logs from several Microsoft Windows Servers in a centralised location.

Procedures:
Open Event Viewer
Browse to folder
Open hostname-year-month-day.evt
Filter Errors and Failure Audits
Repeat for the rest of the servers

I was lucky to stumble upon the Log Parser, a command-line which allows SQL queries to be run against log files and dump the required results into simple csv files.
“C:\program files\log parser 2.2\logparser.exe” -i:evt “select EventLog, TimeGenerated, EventID, EventTypeName, EventCategoryName, SourceName, Strings, ComputerName, SID, Message into %2 from %1 where EventTypeName like ‘Error%%'” -o:csv -resolveSIDs:on -direction:BW

Where %1 refers to your source and %2 to your destination.

Quoted from my friend “If you have to click on the same thing more than 2 times, automate it.”