I need to copy hundreds of gigs of random files around on my computer and am pretty leery of using the vanilla file copy built into Windows. I don't want it to hang on a "Are you sure?", "Are you really sure?", "Even zip files?", "Surely not read-only files too!" loop as soon as I step away. I don't want it to work for hours and then s...
I volunteered to set up a laptop computer with Windows XP for my son's second grade teacher. I installed windows from scratch (to make sure it's clean). I'm trying to create a setup that will keep her running without issues for the longest possible time. Also (since it's not a very powerful machine) I would like to make sure she has only...
I had the idea of a search engine that would index web items like other search engines do now but would only store the file's title, url and a hash of the contents. This way it would be easy to find items on the web if you already had them and didn't know where they came from or wanted to know all the places that something appeared. Mo...
I've been trying to figure out a regex to allow me to search for a particular string while automatically skipping comments. Anyone have an RE like this or know of one? It doesn't even need to be sophisticated enough to skip #if 0 blocks; I just want it to skip over // and /* blocks. The converse, that is only search inside comment blo...
First of all, I don't need a textual comparison so Beyond Compare doesn't do what I need. I'm looking for a util that can report on the differences between two files, at the byte level. Bare minimum is the need to see the percentage change in the file, or a report on affected bytes/sectors. Is there anything available to save me the...
Is there a tool for Windows XP and Vista (built-in or otherwise ideally freeware/OSS) that can notify the user when the CPU is above a (configurable) threshold for some (configurable) duration? I am particularly interested in a minimalist tool that fits the following bill and in order of importance (which a lot of the built-in Windows f...
For years, one of my most important tools has been incremental copy utility that compares the contents of two directories and shows me which files are newer / older / added / deleted. Every day I find myself copying folders of source code between my two desktop machines and the server, and such a utility is critical to avoid overwriting...
What must have tools/apps/utilities are recommended for OS X in general, and for a developer using that platform specifically? ...
I have some application code which generates XML documents, which are then validated against an XML Schema. The schema makes use of NMTOKEN types, and occasionally, the generated XML contains string values which are illegal NMTOKENs (e.g. they contain spaces or weird punctuation). The Xerces schema validation catches it OK, of course, b...
Something I have always been interested in out of curiosity, is there a tool or utility that will allow me so log post parameters sent to a website? Not a personal website, any site on the web. Reason for this, is that I want to be able to develop a .NET application without having to add the overhead of creating a WebBrowser object and ...
Linux supports sending an arbitrary Posix-Signal such as SIGINT or SIGTERM to a process using the kill-Command. While SIGINT and SIGTERM are just boring old ways to end a process in a friendly or not-so-friendly kind of way, SIGQUIT is meant to trigger a core dump. This can be used to trigger a running Java VM to print out a thread dump...
I want to audit my Solaris server using any auditing tools. ...
Hello, I've been unsuccessfully searching for a way to install make utility on my CentOS 5.2. I've looked through some RPM repositories and online, with no avail. Installing gcc, gcc-c++ didn't help! Package build-essential is not made for CentOS/RHEL. I have RPMFORGE repo enabled in YUM. ...
Some of the most efficient engineers, developers and IT professionals I know usually carry around a common "toolkit" of useful programs, add-ins or utilities which help them for day-to-day debugging, developing or designing. The question is: What is in your utility toolkit.. What tools couldn't you live without? ...
I recently read this Phil Haack post (The Most Useful .NET Utility Classes Developers Tend To Reinvent Rather Than Reuse) from last year, and thought I'd see if anyone has any additions to the list. ...
I have a program that creates daily log files that are 30-60MBs in size. I often need to open these files and search for various events. Notepad.exe takes a very long time to open a file that large. I've tried various shareware programs, some are better than notepad, but they all take a while to load these log files. I'm guessing part of...
We all know that having a good note taking tool is important as a developer. However, OneNote and Evernote forces us to be locked in to a particular vendor. Anyone know of good open-source tools, or even other method of taking notes w/o being "locked-in"? EDIT: I should kick myself in the head for not specifying. Taking text notes is ...
Hi All, I know there has been previous talk on here about screencasting tools/apps, however I thought I would be more specific in what I am after in the hope that it can help me and others :) I am looking at trialling some screencasts on my blog. There are numerous reasons for this (hopefully being more helpful to readers, improving my...
Hello Guys, I am looking for a tool that let me have a flattened view for my folders on a windows xp without actually changing the file/folder architecture example: file/folder structure is : RootFolder : folder1,folder2 folder1 : file1,file2.. folder2 : file3, file4 i want to point that software to root folder and see file1 --> fil...
For whatever reason, I have a lot of clients that have existing data that's stored in spreadsheets. Often there are hundreds, if not thousands of items in each spreadsheet, and asking the client to manually enter them through a website (or heaven forbid importing them that way myself) is out of the question. Typically, this data doesn't ...