Cool tip of the day - Bitnami Stacks

When you need a LAMP stack or a Tomcat Stack for development ... what do you do?

Yes you go trawling around the net looking for all the bits and how to glue them together.
Well don't just go to http://bitnami.org/stacks and download their all in one stack.

My favorite is the tomcat stack!

Stream music from your computer to Xbox 360

Over xmas my son ask me for some music on his xbox.
Easy I thought ... no so!
it is easy if you have Vista, W7 & W8 but not if you have a dinosaur media system based on xp.
But you can get there in the end.
Follow these steps:

1. Read this post on the XBoz site.http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-xp/help/windows-media-player/11/stream-xbox.
   This should get you up to speed on what you need to do.
2. Download media Player or Zune (if you can stand the Metro look and feel).
3. Start the sharing process as described in the first article.
4. Test the connection from the xbox;
5. If it fails (as it did for me) check the service "Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service".
   -Open the task manager. (ctrl+alt+del)
   -Go to the Services Tab.
   -Click on the Services button and minimize task manager.
   -In new Services Window, right click on Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service.
   -Select Properties.
   -go to Log On tab.
   -if Local System Account is not highlighted, then you've most likely found the problem. Select Local System Account radio button, click Apply and OK, then right click on Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service again and select restart service.

That should sort it!

Java 7 classpath broken on Windows XP

Please file under "for F*cks sake!!!"

It seems that the ability to assign a wild card as a class path when setting up a Java comand-line script is broken for Java 1.7 and windows users (On XP certainly).

Previously you could type .... java -cp "somewhere/*"
WHICH would do the trick now you have to add a magic character to make it work.
SO the command becomes java -cp "somewhere/*;"

Just file under GRRRR!

Or see this handy post by someone far less annoyed than I am.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9195073/broken-wildcard-expansion-for-java7-commandline-on-windows7

"Cmd here" in windows 7

In Win XP I found very useful the power toy CmdHere to open a command window in the current folder.

Q: So what is the equivalent in Windows 7?
A: Hold the Shift key down while right-clicking.  You should see an entry "Open Command Window Here" appear.

cmd here in windows 7

In Win Xp I found very usefull the power toy CmdHere to open a command window in the current folder.
In W7 do the following:
Right-clicking on a folder; holding the Shift key down while right-clicking. 
You should see an entry "Open Command Window Here" appear. 
In XP
Open Command Window Here
Easy access: Open command windows (cmd.exe) quickly with this file system folder shortcut.
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