A commonly asked question among people looking at a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 installation is “why is the WinSxS folder so big?!”   To answer that question I need to first describe componentization, and how components are managed in Windows Vista. One of the largest changes between previous versions of Windows and Windows Vista was a move from an INF described OS to componentization.  A component in Windows is one...

The deployment.properties file is used for storing and retrieving deployment configuration properties in the Java Control Panel. They are also used for customizing runtime behavior for both Java Plug-in and Java Web Start. There is always a User-Level deployment.properties file. Its location, which is non-configurable, is described below. There may also be an (optional) System-Level deployment.properties file. If it exists, its...

If you are running out of space on your primary drive, you’ve probably considered moving your data to a second drive, but the built-in folders such as Documents are all located inside your user directory by default. Luckily Windows 7 provides a simple way to move these folders without causing any problems. Before you do this, you should close every single application that you have open, because otherwise you’ll have issues moving the...

First we need to use STSADM.exe to add the .wsp file to the SharePoint farm. To find STSADM.exe navigate to the bin folder in the 12 hive – here C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN Open a command window and drag stsadm.exe onto it and use the following command to add the solution to the solution store. stsadm -o addsolution -filename c:\solution.wsp You can also use stsadm to deploy the solution...

#1 IBM’s New to Linux Linux Introduction If you are brand new to Linux and have no idea what it is or what you can do with it, IBM’s Linux Introduction is worth checking out. This tutorial guides readers through everything they need to know to start working with Linux. The tutorial also provides links to hundreds of other articles, tutorials and training devices. #2 Professor Norm Matloff’s Beginner’s Guide to...

Windows creates in every folder with pictures a thumbs.db file. Linux doesn’t need them, so here is a simple command to get rid of them. sudo find /home/user -name Thumbs.db -exec rm {} \;

To remove empty directories in a directory structure use the following command : sudo find /begin/here -type d -empty -delete