Win – Set Display Resolution command line

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

A nifty little utility to set many things via the command line, including screen resolution. This is useful on windows 7 computers where the system detects a high resolution that you want to use. (Think high res monitor connected to lectern also using a system 7 connection to a projector)

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

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Bootcamp – Setting boot volume from windows command line

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Sometimes it is necessary to set the boot volume via the command line.

# "c:\Program Files\Boot Camp\BootCamp.exe" -StartupDisk "Windows"

(Replace “Windows” with “Macintosh HD” to boot to the Mac side …)

See this reference from Apple …

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3802

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Mac – Set boot volume from mac comand line

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Sometimes, particularly on dual-boot macs, it is important to be able to set the boot volume from the mac command line. (Think Apple Remote Desktop!)

The command to do this as root is:

/usr/sbin/bless --device /dev/disk0s3 --setBoot --legacy

For details see:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110601220925705

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Mac – System Log Location

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

In case you forget …

On Mac OS 10.6 the system.log is in /var/log

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Software – MacClade not supported on Lion

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

The programers for MacClade have said that they will not support MacClade and it does not run on the new Mac Lion OS (10.7.x). They suggest people using MacClade switch to using Mesquite available at:
http://mesquiteproject.org/mesquite/mesquite.html

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Dec 2011 – Imaging Log

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

Imaging with the Winter/Spring 2012 image on all computers in the following spaces is complete … Exceptions noted with issues listed at the end ….

Labs:

  • Bronfman 119
  • Harper GIS
  • Jesup B03
  • Jesup 101
  • Jesup 204
  • Jesup 207
  • Jesup 316a
  • Schow GIS

Lecterns:
(Individual computers in parenthesis need to be checked and/or imaged – see complete list of computers with issues below.)

  • Bernhard
  • Bronfman
  • Clark (Clk-105-pc not set to boot to network)
  • Griffin (gfn-002-mac needs to be checked)
  • Greylock (Greylock D – mac and pc are unresponsive and are likely “broken”)
  • Hollander (nab-040-pc not set to boot to network)
  • Hopkins (names change)
  • Jesup (jsp-205-pc to be replaced with dual-boot, jsp-206-pc not set to boot to network)
  • Lawrence
  • Paresky
  • Schapiro (sab-137-pc not set to boot to network)
  • TBL – Biology
  • TCL – Chemistry (tcl-206-pc not set to boot to network first)
  • TPL – Physics
  • Weston

Libraries:

  • Sawyer Classroom (swy-cls-03 not set to boot each morning)
  • Sawyer Lower Level Lab
  • Sawyer Main level (swy-bay-1 and swy-opn-28 need to be checked)
  • Schow Atrium (ssl-atrium-14 and ssl-atrium-24 not set to boot each morning)
  • Schow Classroom

Specific computers with issues:

These are likely unusable:

  • glk-d-mac and glk-d-pc — image process did not complete correctly, reboot to restart imaging process
  • swy-bay-01 and swy-opn-28 — image process did not complete correctly, reboot to restart imaging process

These are likely usable but will need to be checked and imaged in January:

  • clk-105-pc — not set to boot to network first
  • ctd-sem-pc — not on-line
  • gfn-002-mac — not on-line
  • jsp-206-pc — not set to boot to network first
  • nab-040-pc — not set to boot to network first
  • sab-137-pc — not set to boot to network first
  • spn-212-pc — not on-line
  • ssl-atrium-14 and ssl-atrium-24 — not set to boot each morning
  • swy-cls-03 — not set to boot each morning
  • tcl-206-pc — not set to boot to network first

Still to do:

  • CDE Lectern and lab – not till after winter study
  • Clark lab
  • ’62 CTD lectern and lab
  • Jesup 205 – not till January, photography image
  • Jesup 316 (3 of 7 still need to do)
  • Spencer lectern and labs
  • Physics lab (not till January)
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VectorWorks – File Locations and Uninstall

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

VectorWorks 2011 does not provide an automated uninstall and it can not be removed from the add/remove programs (The VecotrWorks Help program can be removed from add/remove programs). The software vendor offers the following …

http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/928/Uninstalling+Vectorworks+2011

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Quotes – On not knowing …

Posted on December 12, 2011 by

Henry Ford Sr. (1863 – 1947)

“… no one ever considers himself expert
if he really knows his job. A man who
knows a job sees so much more to be done
than he has done, that he is always pressing
forward and never gives up an instant of
thought to how good and how efficient he is.
Thinking always ahead, thinking always of
trying to do more, brings a state of mind
in which nothing is impossible. The moment
one gets into the “expert” state of mind a
great number of things become impossible.”

Or more succinctly …

K’naan (Keinan Abdi Warsame) (1978 – )

“… any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all …”

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Quotes – Susan Thompson Buffett

Posted on December 12, 2011 by

5 keys to business success …

  • Show up
  • Tell the truth
  • Pay attention
  • Do your best
  • Don’t be attached to the outcome
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Quotes – L.E.A.R.N.

Posted on December 12, 2011 by

L.E.A.R.N – From Aimee Kanzler on quality customer service

L – Listen
E – Empathize
A – Apologize
R – Remediate
N – Notify

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