Installing IIS in Windows XP Home Edition

Officially, Microsoft doesn’t support the installation of IIS on a machine running Windows XP Home (sadly, I never upgraded my Windows). Faced with the necessity, I decided to investigate the matter further before upgrading to XP pro. Several experts have added their two cents on the topic on forums across the net, most echoing Microsoft’s [...]

Installing Vista in VMWare

Before I start writing, I’d like to say that this is coming from my own experience in installing Vista to VMWare. I tried to find tips on some of the issues I faced during my struggles, but was left in the dark.
Hopefully this post will help you out:
The lowest amount of Virtual Memory Vista will [...]

FREE COMPUTER BOOKS

gerry told me about this hidden library resource. LOADS of free computer books. Think you may have to go through extra steps to connect from home, but worth checking out. Anyone know how to download these? i can only figure out how to read them online.
http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com

Network Operating Systems Labs & Semester 1 Files

I got a little tired of working with all the seperate ZIP lab files for NOS, so I decided to take all the labs and condense them in to one, easy to manage PDF.  The PDF also has bookmarks (See the bookmarks tab in Adobe Acrobat), so you can easily skip through to a specific [...]

3000+ Unix/ Linux Programming Texts and Tutorials

Found this on Digg.. should come in handy for the coming semester!
http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/programming.html 

CST8202: Lab 12: Windows Scripts Hints and Tips

Ioana helped me out a lot for this lab and saved me an estimated 9,354 hours of frustration by providing lots of information and tips, so thank you very much.. henceforth you shall be known as the Queen of the Batch Files.
If I anything is wrong or unclear, or you have a better way to [...]

Windows Shell Scripting Lab Hints

Abman gave some hints today in the lecture:
Lab revolves around the FOR statement, your script will have at least 3 or 4 FOR statements.
Multiple Text Files: Create unique department text file.
Need environmental variables. If you use the SET command in one batch file, it exists in ALL batch files; there is only one environment.

Windows Shell Scripting Resources

Windows IT Pro Magazine 10-Lesson Introduction to Windows Shell Scripting (Pretty basic at times, you may want to skip the first few lessons)
The C0de Project: Windows NT Shell Scripting - Chapter 5: A Scripting Toolkit (More advanced; Includes several examples)
The Windows XP Command Line, Batch Files, and Scripting (Somteimes basic, but has some good info [...]

Desktop Operating Systems Cheat Sheet

You aren’t allowed to bring this into the test, but I thought it may be handy to have a lot of the core information condensed into a double-sided 8.5 x 11 page.  It’s all grayscale, so it won’t eat up your ink and cost a fortune to print.
The sheet covers:

Batch File Commands
Batch File Command Syntax
Installing [...]

Final Exam Dates

These are the FINAL dates for our final exams:
MATH 8100T
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2006
9:00 AM TO 11:00 AM
ROOMS: gym, T102A, T102B, T102C, A223, Cafe (check ACSIS for your section)
DATABASE SYSTEMS AND CONCEPTS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2006
9:00 AM TO 11:00 AM
ROOM: P201
WEB PROGRAMMING
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2006
8:00 AM TO 11:00 AM
ROOM: T312
DESKTOP OPERATING SYSTEMS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2006
11:30 AM TO [...]