c:\>powershell
Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

PS c:\> get-eventlog "system" | where-object {$_.EventID -eq 5}

   Index Time          EntryType   Source                 InstanceID Message
   ----- ----          ---------   ------                 ---------- -------
     798 Nov 29 20:27  Error       Microsoft-Windows...            5 The des...


PS C:\>

Sometimes there may be many occurences of a particular eventid in a log file. You can limit the display to those before or after a particular date using -before or -after as shown below for a search of the application event log:

PS C:\> get-eventlog -LogName "application" | where-object {$_.EventID -eq 753}

   Index Time          EntryType   Source                 InstanceID Message
   ----- ----          ---------   ------                 ---------- -------
    6239 Jan 25 22:29  Information Microsoft-Windows...          753 The Blo...
    2108 Dec 27 21:17  Information Microsoft-Windows...          753 The Blo...
    2099 Dec 27 21:00  Information Microsoft-Windows...          753 The Blo...
    1380 Nov 29 22:18  Information Microsoft-Windows...          753 The Blo...
    1359 Nov 29 22:05  Information Microsoft-Windows...          753 The Blo...
    1278 Nov 29 20:37  Information Microsoft-Windows...          753 The Blo...


PS C:\> get-eventlog -LogName "application" -before 2015-01-01 | where-object {$
_.EventID -eq 753}

   Index Time          EntryType   Source                 InstanceID Message
   ----- ----          ---------   ------                 ---------- -------
    2108 Dec 27 21:17  Information Microsoft-Windows...          753 The Blo...
    2099 Dec 27 21:00  Information Microsoft-Windows...          753 The Blo...
    1380 Nov 29 22:18  Information Microsoft-Windows...          753 The Blo...
    1359 Nov 29 22:05  Information Microsoft-Windows...          753 The Blo...
    1278 Nov 29 20:37  Information Microsoft-Windows...          753 The Blo...


PS C:\> get-eventlog -LogName "application" -after 2015-01-01 | where-object {$_
.EventID -eq 753}

   Index Time          EntryType   Source                 InstanceID Message
   ----- ----          ---------   ------                 ---------- -------
    6239 Jan 25 22:29  Information Microsoft-Windows...          753 The Blo...


PS C:\>

If you only want to see error events in a log, e.g. errors in the application log, you could use a command such as the one shown below:

PS C:\> get-eventlog -LogName "application" -entrytype error

   Index Time          EntryType   Source                 InstanceID Message
   ----- ----          ---------   ------                 ---------- -------
    6599 Jan 31 20:19  Error       Microsoft-Windows...         2005 There w...
    6596 Jan 31 20:19  Error       Microsoft-Windows...         2005 There w...
    6455 Jan 28 22:38  Error       Microsoft-Windows...         2006 There w...
    6427 Jan 28 02:13  Error       Microsoft-Windows...          513 Cryptog...
    6383 Jan 27 21:55  Error       VSS                          8194 Volume ...
    6340 Jan 26 19:31  Error       VSS                          8194 Volume ...
    6240 Jan 25 22:29  Error       Microsoft-Windows...          513 Cryptog...

You can get help on using the get-eventlog cmdlet by typing help get-eventlog at a PowerShell prompt.

PS C:\> help get-eventlog

NAME
    Get-EventLog

SYNTAX
    Get-EventLog [-LogName] <string> [[-InstanceId] <long[]>] [-ComputerName
    <string[]>] [-Newest <int>] [-After <datetime>] [-Before <datetime>]
    [-UserName <string[]>] [-Index <int[]>] [-EntryType <string[]> {Error |
    Information | FailureAudit | SuccessAudit | Warning}] [-Source <string[]>]
    [-Message <string>] [-AsBaseObject]  [<CommonParameters>]

    Get-EventLog [-ComputerName <string[]>] [-List] [-AsString]
    [<CommonParameters>]


ALIASES
    None


REMARKS
    Get-Help cannot find the Help files for this cmdlet on this computer. It
    is displaying only partial help.
        -- To download and install Help files for the module that includes
    this cmdlet, use Update-Help.
        -- To view the Help topic for this cmdlet online, type: "Get-Help
    Get-EventLog -Online" or
           go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113314.




PS C:\>

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C:\Windows\system32>color /?
Sets the default console foreground and background colors.

COLOR [attr]

  attr        Specifies color attribute of console output

Color attributes are specified by TWO hex digits -- the first
corresponds to the background; the second the foreground.  Each digit
can be any of the following values:

    0 = Black       8 = Gray
    1 = Blue        9 = Light Blue
    2 = Green       A = Light Green
    3 = Aqua        B = Light Aqua
    4 = Red         C = Light Red
    5 = Purple      D = Light Purple
    6 = Yellow      E = Light Yellow
    7 = White       F = Bright White

If no argument is given, this command restores the color to what it was
when CMD.EXE started.  This value either comes from the current console
window, the /T command line switch or from the DefaultColor registry
value.

The COLOR command sets ERRORLEVEL to 1 if an attempt is made to execute
the COLOR command with a foreground and background color that are the
same.

Example: "COLOR fc" produces light red on bright white

C:\Windows\system32>

If you would prefer black text on a white background, you can use color 70, though the background color looks like a light gray on the systems on which I've tried that color combination, rather than white.

The command color f0, which is for black on bright white, does provide a white background with black text, though, on those same systems.

If you don't like a color combination you've obtained from the command, you can set the colors back to the default white text on a black background by entering the color command with no options.

If you want to make the change apply to every command prompt window you open for the currently logged on account, you can use the windows regedit command to edit the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor and change the value for DefaultColor from its default value of 0 to the hexadecimal value f0, which is decimal 240.

Once you've changed the registry value, every new command prompt window you open from that time onwards will use the new settings.

You can check on the registry value from a command prompt with the command reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor" /v DefaultColor.

C:\Users\User>reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor"
 /v DefaultColor

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor
    DefaultColor    REG_DWORD    0x0

You can set the value from the command prompt with a command similar to the following one:

C:\Users\User>reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor" /
v DefaultColor /t REG_DWORD /d 240 /f
The operation completed successfully.

C:\Users\User>

The data to be used is specified with the /d option. In the above case, I am using the decimal equivalent, 240, to the hexadecimal number F0 and adding the /f option, so that I won't be prompted as to whether I wish to overwrite the existing value.

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The copying, pasting, and editing process can take an hour or more, so when I came across the Word to Clean HTML site, which provides a free tool to convert documents produced by Microsoft Word and similar office software to HTML, I pasted the newsletter into its online form for conversion. The tool "strips out invalid or proprietary tags leaving clean HTML behind for use in web pages and ebooks", I hoped it might save me a fair portion of the time I normally spend each month on the manual conversion process and allow me to get the newsletter posted more promptly after I receive it. So, I copied the contents of the newsletter with command-C (I'm normally handling it on a Mac) and then pasted it into the form on the site's webpage. I checked a couple of the options that weren't checked by default: replace non-ascii with HTML entities and replace smart quotes with ascci equivalents. I then clicked on the convert to clean html button.

The HTML code produced by the tool was much cleaner than that produced by Word and gave me code that looked the same when viewed from browsers on different operating systems. I wouldn't have needed to do any editing to have the newsletter display appropriately, but I noticed that for an unordered list that at the end of each <li> entry there were extraneous <strong><u></u></strong> tags, i.e. there wasn't any text enclosed by the tags, which weren't needed. But that wouldn't have affected members' view of the newsletter. I removed it though, and made the source code a little more readable by putting in some blank lines between some of the items. But that wasn't really needed and by using the free online tool I should, hopefully, be able to reduce the process of posting the newsletter to about 15 minutes and get the newsletter posted shortly after I receive it now, so I'm thankful to Olly Cope, a freelance python web developer, for making it freely available to others. The tool was written in Python using the lxml library.

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From the left pane of the Entourage window, you can select old entries by clicking on Calendar then selecting Edit from the menu bar at the top of the window and then selecting Advanced Search. For "Item Contains", select "End Date" and, instead of "Any Date", select "Greater Than". Then put in a number of days in the field to the right of "Greater Than". E.g., I could put in 730 to find any calendar entry that was more than two years old. You can then delete all of those old entries, though you may receive many prompts for "You have chosen to cancel this event. Do you want to notify the Organizer?" After you've finished, you can then right-click on Calendar again and select Properties and Storage to see how much space you freed be removing the old entries.

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<div style="background-color: black; color: white;"><pre>
C:\Windows\system32>wbadmin get items -version:01/25/2015-18:00
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Volume ID = {46a6263c-8cbc-11e4-93ed-806e6f6e6963}
Volume 'RECOVERY', mounted at <not mounted> ('RECOVERY', mounted at <not mounted
> at the time</pre></div>

Which would display as shown below:

C:\Windows\system32>wbadmin get items -version:01/25/2015-18:00
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Volume ID = {46a6263c-8cbc-11e4-93ed-806e6f6e6963}
Volume 'RECOVERY', mounted at <not mounted> ('RECOVERY', mounted at <not mounted
> at the time

But that will make the area with the black background extend across the entire page rather than only as far as the 80th character on the page, i.e., the "d" at the end of "mounted", which is where the line wraps in the command prompt window. I can add width: 80ch; to the style section to specify that I only want it to be 80 characters wide, i.e., I can use the following:

<div style="background-color: black; color: white; width: 80ch;"><pre>

The width of a character is judged to be the width of the zero character in the current font, but I've found that won't always work in all browsers and may give me an area that, though it doesn't now extend across the whole page when I don't want it to do so, may be too wide or too narrow depending upon the browser in which I'm viewing it. The above example is shown again below with the style information changed to include width: 80ch;.

C:\Windows\system32>wbadmin get items -version:01/25/2015-18:00
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Volume ID = {46a6263c-8cbc-11e4-93ed-806e6f6e6963}
Volume 'RECOVERY', mounted at <not mounted> ('RECOVERY', mounted at <not mounted
> at the time

When I view the page in Chrome version 39, the above div is wider than I want, i.e, it extends far beyond the "d" in "mounted", i.e., far beyond the 80th character. Though when I view it in Firefox 35, I see the width of the div extending only as far as the 80th character. If I view it with Internet Explorer, it is not wide enough, so I see the black area terminated after "mounted at <" with the followng "n" only partially visible and the rest of the line invisible.

Another option is to use display: inline-block;, instead, i.e., I can change the div line to be the following:

<div style="background-color: black; color: white; display: inline-block;"><pre>

The div section then displays the following when I've ended the line of text I want wrapped at the 80th character at that character:

C:\Windows\system32>wbadmin get items -version:01/25/2015-18:00
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Volume ID = {46a6263c-8cbc-11e4-93ed-806e6f6e6963}
Volume 'RECOVERY', mounted at <not mounted> ('RECOVERY', mounted at <not mounted
> at the time

The width of the black backround, i.e., the width of the div, extends only as far as the width of the longest element within it, which is the line I ended at the 80th character and works in all three browsers.

So I added the following line to the style.css file for the site:

.commandprompt { background-color: black; color: white; display: inline-block; }

So I can then use <div class="commandprompt"><pre> when I want a div, which will only contain text from a shell or command prompt window, to stretch only as far as to accomodate the longest element within it, which will be an 80 character line. So the div will stretch, or shrink, however you prefer to view it, to fit.

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You can direct the output to a file by specifying /output:filename before qfe list. E.g.:

C:\Users\User>wmic /output:hotfixes.txt qfe list brief

The output in the above example would be in hotfixes.txt. If you wanted the output to go to the clipboard, instead, you could use wmic /output:clipboard qfe list brief.

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If you have several command prompt windows open, you might like to have each uniquely identifiable by a distinct title, so that you can easily select the relevant one. You can use the title command to change the title that appears at the top of a command prompt window. The syntax for the command is as follows:

C:\>title /?
Sets the window title for the command prompt window.

TITLE [string]

  string       Specifies the title for the command prompt window.

E.g., you could change the title to Test with title Test.

You don't need to include text in quotes after the title command if the text contains spaces. E.g., you can use title Mary had a little lamb to have the title appear as Mary had a little lamb. If you put quotes on the command line after the title, the quotes would appear in the window title.

If you give unique titles to the command prompt windows, you can also tell how much memory each one is using with the tasklist command by filtering on WINDOWSTITLE. E.g., if I had two command prompt windows open with one named "Mary had a little lamb" and another titled "Jack and Jill":

C:\>tasklist /fi "WINDOWTITLE EQ Mary had a little lamb"

Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
cmd.exe                      14020 Console                    1      2,696 K

C:\>tasklist /fi "WINDOWTITLE EQ Jack and Jill"

Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
cmd.exe                      11536 Console                    1      2,188 K

If the title you choose is very long, only part of the text may be displayed in the windows title with three dots substituted for the rest of the text that can't be fit into the available space for the title.

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1. Click on the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
2. Select Recent Tabs
3. Under Recently closed, you will see the number of tabs that were open during the last browsing session as "x Tabs" where x is the number of tabs that were open before Chrome was closed, e.g., "8 Tabs", if that was the number previously open. Click on the "x Tabs" line to reopen all of those tabs.

   

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1. Click on the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
2. Select settings.
3. Click on Show advanced settings.
4. Scroll down to the Downloads section. You can put a directory path in the "Download location" field to have a set downloads directory; to be prompted as to where a file should be stored each time you download a file, check the check box for "Ask where to save each file before downloading".
5. Once you've made the change to the setting you can close the Settings tab in Chrome.

The setting for whether a file is downloaded into a default location or for Chrome to prompt the user for the location is controlled, like other Chrome settings, in the Preferences file for the account, which is stored beneath a user's home directory. On a Mac OS X system, you can view the file from a command prompt using the Terminal application by going to the directory shown below:

$ cd ~
$ cd "Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default"
$ more Preferences

On a Microsoft Windows system you can find the Preferences file at %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences. The environment variable %USERPROFILE% is usually C:\Users\username where username is the account name. So you can open the file in Notepad from a command prompt with:

C:\> notepad "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences"

You can edit the Preferences file with a text editor and add "prompt_for_download": true to the download section of the file to have Chrome prompt for the location in which to place a downloaded file. E.g., the default configuration for the download section when the downloads directory for an account is used is shown below followed by the configuration when Chrome will prompt for the location:

Use default downloads directory

   "download": {
      "directory_upgrade": true,
      "extensions_to_open": ""
   },

Prompt for download location

   "download": {
      "directory_upgrade": true,
      "extensions_to_open": "",
      "prompt_for_download": true
   },

Note: the "extensions_to_open": "" line may or may not be present for default Chrome settings; I saw it on a Mac OS X system, but it wasn't present on a Microsoft Windows system. But you only need add the line to set the "prompt_for_download" to true.

References:

1. Configuring Other Preferences
   The Chromium Projects

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So, how do you specify cell text when that text includes quotation marks. E.g., for a title of Fixing "To" Addresses in a Queued Message, using =hyperlink(http://support.moonpoint.com/blog/blosxom/2005/04/06#fixing-to-address","Fixing "To" Addresses in a Queued Message") won't work, since the first double quote character appearing after the beginning one before Fixing signals the end of the cell_text. Often a backslash character, \ can serve as an escape character indicating that the character that follows isn't to be treated the way it would normally be treated by software, i.e., any special significance for the following character is to be ignored. But in this case that didn't work. I still saw #ERROR! in the cell and a little red triangle in the cell that when clicked on displayed Error: Parse. Nor would using the &ldquote; and &rdquote; that can be used in HTML coding to signify left and right double quotes. That just resulted in that text being displayed with the rest of the cell text. What I found did work was to use the double quote character itself as an escape character, so that if two double quotes are placed one after the other in cell_text, a double quote will appear within the cell_text. E.g., in the above case, =hyperlink("http://support.moonpoint.com/blog/blosxom/2005/04/06#fixing-to-address","Fixing ""To"" Addresses in a Queued Message") worked to display Fixing "To" Addresses in a Queued Message for the cell text. You don't need to escape any single quotes within the cell_text, only the double quotes. You can also escape double quote characters within a URL the same way.

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I first noticed that a serious security issue had occurred when I mistyped a site's URL and saw a webpage displayed referencing d2e24t2jgcnor2.webhostoid.com, instead of the expected site.

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If you upload a text file, such as a .txt or .html file, from a Windows system to a Linux system and then edit it with vi, you may see ^M appear at various places in the file. To convert a text file from the DOS/Windows format to the one used by Linux, you can use the dos2unix utility.

You can install the dos2unix utility on a CentOS 7 system with the command yum install dos2unix. The program will be installed in /bin.

# which dos2unix
/bin/dos2unix
# rpm -qi dos2unix
Name        : dos2unix
Version     : 6.0.3
Release     : 4.el7
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Sat 17 Jan 2015 10:42:01 PM EST
Group       : Applications/Text
Size        : 178697
License     : BSD
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Thu 03 Jul 2014 09:09:30 PM EDT, Key ID 24c6a8a7f4a80eb5
Source RPM  : dos2unix-6.0.3-4.el7.src.rpm
Build Date  : Mon 09 Jun 2014 06:00:48 PM EDT
Build Host  : worker1.bsys.centos.org
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>
Vendor      : CentOS
URL         : http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/dos2unix.html
Summary     : Text file format converters
Description :
Convert text files with DOS or Mac line endings to Unix line endings and
vice versa.

The syntax for the command is shown below:

$ dos2unix -h
dos2unix 6.0.3 (2013-01-25)
Usage: dos2unix [options] [file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]
 -ascii                convert only line breaks (default)
 -iso                  conversion between DOS and ISO-8859-1 character set
   -1252               Use Windows code page 1252 (Western European)
   -437                Use DOS code page 437 (US) (default)
   -850                Use DOS code page 850 (Western European)
   -860                Use DOS code page 860 (Portuguese)
   -863                Use DOS code page 863 (French Canadian)
   -865                Use DOS code page 865 (Nordic)
 -7                    Convert 8 bit characters to 7 bit space
 -c, --convmode        conversion mode
   convmode            ascii, 7bit, iso, mac, default to ascii
 -f, --force           force conversion of binary files
 -h, --help            give this help
 -k, --keepdate        keep output file date
 -L, --license         display software license
 -l, --newline         add additional newline
 -m, --add-bom         add UTF-8 Byte Order Mark
 -n, --newfile         write to new file
   infile              original file in new file mode
   outfile             output file in new file mode
 -o, --oldfile         write to old file
   file ...            files to convert in old file mode
 -q, --quiet           quiet mode, suppress all warnings
                       always on in stdio mode
 -s, --safe            skip binary files (default)
 -F, --follow-symlink  follow symbolic links and convert the targets
 -R, --replace-symlink replace symbolic links with converted files
                       (original target files remain unchanged)
 -S, --skip-symlink    keep symbolic links and targets unchanged (default)
 -V, --version         display version number

To convert the format of a file using the same file for both input and output, you only need specify the file name as an argument to dos2unix. E.g.:

$ dos2unix index.php
dos2unix: converting file index.php to Unix format ...

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C:\>netsh wlan show profiles

Profiles on interface Wi-Fi:

Group policy profiles (read only)
---------------------------------
    <None>

User profiles
-------------
    All User Profile     : belkin54g
    All User Profile     : Imp
    All User Profile     : Harbor
    All User Profile     : Guest
    All User Profile     : library
    All User Profile     : T28J7
    All User Profile     : NETGEAR
    All User Profile     : linksys

You can then retrieve the key used for a particular profile by specifying it with name=profile, where profile is one of the stored profiles, followed by key=clear.

C:\>netsh wlan show profiles name=T28J7 key=clear

Profile T28J7 on interface Wi-Fi:
=======================================================================

Applied: All User Profile

Profile information
-------------------
    Version                : 1
    Type                   : Wireless LAN
    Name                   : T28J7
    Control options        :
        Connection mode    : Connect manually
        Network broadcast  : Connect only if this network is broadcasting
        AutoSwitch         : Do not switch to other networks

Connectivity settings
---------------------
    Number of SSIDs        : 1
    SSID name              : "T28J7"
    Network type           : Infrastructure
    Radio type             : [ Any Radio Type ]
    Vendor extension          : Not present

Security settings
-----------------
    Authentication         : Open
    Cipher                 : WEP
    Security key           : Present
    Key Content            : 719DDAB7A9
    Key Index              : 1

Cost settings
-------------
    Cost                   : Unrestricted
    Congested              : No
    Approaching Data Limit : No
    Over Data Limit        : No
    Roaming                : No
    Cost Source            : Default


C:\>netsh wlan show profiles name=Harbor key=clear

Profile Harbor on interface Wi-Fi:
=======================================================================

Applied: All User Profile

Profile information
-------------------
    Version                : 1
    Type                   : Wireless LAN
    Name                   : Harbor
    Control options        :
        Connection mode    : Connect automatically
        Network broadcast  : Connect only if this network is broadcasting
        AutoSwitch         : Do not switch to other networks

Connectivity settings
---------------------
    Number of SSIDs        : 1
    SSID name              : "Harbor"
    Network type           : Infrastructure
    Radio type             : [ Any Radio Type ]
    Vendor extension          : Not present

Security settings
-----------------
    Authentication         : WPA2-Personal
    Cipher                 : CCMP
    Security key           : Present
    Key Content            : ccc777cc

Cost settings
-------------
    Cost                   : Unrestricted
    Congested              : No
    Approaching Data Limit : No
    Over Data Limit        : No
    Roaming                : No
    Cost Source            : Default

In the above two examples, the WEP key for the wireless network with an SSID of "T28J7" is "719DDAB7A9" and the WPA2-Personal key for the wireless network named "Harbor" is "ccc777cc"

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1. Text (*.txt)
2. Tab Delimited Text File (*.txt)
3. Tabular Text File (*.txt)
4. Comma Delimited Text File (*.csv)
5. HTML File - Horizonal (*.htm; *.html)
6. HTML File - Vertical (*.htm; *.html)
7. XML File - (*.xml)

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On a Microsoft Windows system, information on the digital signature can be viewed with the PowerShell cmdlet Get-AuthenticodeSignature, which is included with Microsoft Windows 7 and later; PowerShell is also available from Microsoft for earlier versions of their operating system. The Sysinternals tool, Sigcheck from Microsoft may also be used to check the digital signature on a file.

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1. Click on the "Customize and Control Google Chrome" button at the top, right-hand side of the Google Chrome window. It is represented as a button with 3 short horizontal lines on it.
2. Select Settings
3. Click on the "Show advanced settings" link near the bottom of the window.
4. Scroll down to the Network Settings section and click on the Change proxy settings button.
5. That will open an Internet Properties window where you can click on the LAN settings button, which will open a Local Area Network (LAN) Settings window.
6. Check the checkbox next to "Use a proxy server for your LAN (These settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN connections)."
7. Click on the Advanced button, which will open a Proxy Settings window.
8. Put in the IP address and port number for the proxy server in the "Proxy address to use" and "Port" fields. You will see four types of proxies listed: HTTP, Secure, FTP, and Socks. The line where you will place the IP address and port number will depend on which of those you are using.
9. Click on OK and then OK again at the Local Area Network (LAN) Settings window, and again at the Internet Properties window.

Note: tested on Google Chrome 39.0 on a Microsoft Windows system.

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find . -name "*.php" -newermt 2015-01-10

The -newermt argument, which is a form of -newerXY is explained below:

-newerXY reference
       Compares  the timestamp of the current file with reference.  The
       reference argument is normally the name of a file  (and  one  of
       its  timestamps is used for the comparison) but it may also be a
       string describing an absolute time.  X and  Y  are  placeholders
       for other letters, and these letters select which time belonging
       to how reference is used for the comparison.

       a   The access time of the file reference
       B   The birth time of the file reference
       c   The inode status change time of reference
       m   The modification time of the file reference
       t   reference is interpreted directly as a time

       Some combinations are invalid; for example, it is invalid for  X
       to  be t.  Some combinations are not implemented on all systems;
       for example B is not supported on all systems.  If an invalid or
       unsupported  combination  of  XY  is  specified,  a  fatal error
       results.  Time specifications are interpreted as for  the  argu‐
       ment  to the -d option of GNU date.  If you try to use the birth
       time of a reference file, and the birth time  cannot  be  deter‐
       mined,  a  fatal  error  message results.  If you specify a test
       which refers to the birth time of  files  being  examined,  this
       test will fail for any files where the birth time is unknown.

References:

1. Linux / Unix: Find Files Modified On Specific Date
   By: nixCraft
   Date: February 27, 2013
   nixCraft - Insight into Linux Admin Work
2. Ubuntu Linux: find files between specific times?
   Posted: April 9, 2013
   Super User

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For signed certificates, the trustworthiness of the signer is vital. There may be a certificate chain with the certificate of the site you are viewing having a certificate signed by some entity that in turn had its own certificate signed by an even more trustworthy authority. Eventually, the chain ends at a trusted root certificate. To be safe when visiting sites and providing credentials, such as userids and passwords, you need to have a trusted chain of certificates. It is vital that the root certificates you have on your system belong to very trustworthy authorities. Microsoft distributes a list of trusted root certificates with its operating system and browsers, such as Firefox, may have their ownl list, but some malware, such as Genius Box, will install its own certificate in the Windows trusted root certificates list making a system susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack as the GeniusBox software also sets itself up as an HTTP and HTTPS proxy on a system it infects.

To view the list of trusted root certificates on a Microsoft Windows system, see Viewing the Trusted Root certificates on a Windows system.

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The file is a hidden and system file, so you would need to turn on the display of hidden and system files in the Windows Explorer to see it, but even then, if you are logged into the account for which you are trying to access NTUSER.DAT it will be locked from access. You can view the contents of the file for another account or the contents of a backup copy of NTUSER.DAT using the RegFileExport utility from NirSoft as explained in Recovering information for the HKCU branch of the registry from a backup.

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C:\Users\Pamela>dir %SYSTEMROOT%\Web\Wallpaper
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 4445-F6ED

 Directory of C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper

11/04/2011  01:00 AM    <DIR>          .
11/04/2011  01:00 AM    <DIR>          ..
11/21/2010  02:16 AM    <DIR>          Architecture
11/21/2010  02:16 AM    <DIR>          Characters
11/04/2011  01:00 AM    <DIR>          Dell
11/21/2010  02:16 AM    <DIR>          Landscapes
11/21/2010  02:16 AM    <DIR>          Nature
11/21/2010  02:16 AM    <DIR>          Scenes
11/21/2010  02:16 AM    <DIR>          Windows
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               9 Dir(s)  863,115,665,408 bytes free

C:\Users\Pamela>echo %SYSTEMROOT%
C:\Windows

The location of the current wallpaper for the currently logged on user can be found by a reg query command.

C:\Users\Pamela>reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" /v WallPaper


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
    WallPaper    REG_SZ    C:\Users\Pamela\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper.jpg

If you pick an image you want to use for wallpaper, it will be copied to the location in the above registry key and renamed TranscodedWallpaper.jpg, which allows you to modify the original image without changing the wallpaper, but may seem confusing if you are expecting the file name to be the same as it was for the original image you selected for the wallpaper.

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The proxy server settings for the system can be configured within Internet Explorer on a Microsoft Windows system. They can also be queried and set from a command line interface using the reg query or reg add commands.

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The Launchpad on the client computer also provides the capability to initiate a backup from the client to the server and to check on the status of the last backup of the client to the server.

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Though some of the "Related to what you're working on" notices I've seen have been relevant, this one was not and I don't want the distraction of such notices when trying to use the software for note keeping. If I dismiss such a notice, I don't want to see it constantly reappearing every few seconds until I'm forced to click on it to stop it from reappearing.

If you click on Tools from the Evernote window and select Options, then Context, you can manage those notices.

In this case rather than just unchecking "Show Context", I clicked on Manage Context Sources, which opened a web page in a browser on the system. From that page I could select which sources would be used; I unchecked the one for The Wall Street Journal, since this is the first time I've encountered the annoyance of a notice appearing repeatedly every few seconds in Evernote and have not experienced it from any other source.

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Connection Problems

Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

When I tried to check access to the database it uses with the mysql command, I saw the following error message:

# mysql
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

The system uses MariaDB, a fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS) for databases. Checking prior notes on the error message, I found it can indicate that the mariahdb database service didn't start when the system rebooted. From the root account I issued the command systemctl start mariadb.service . When I tried accessing the forum again, it was then accessible.

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E.g., the following could be used to create a green button with rounded corners with the word "Download" in it in white text:

<style type="text/css">
.downloadbutton {
  width: 67px;
  height: 20px;
  background-color: #31B404;
  border-radius: 15px;
  border: 3px solid #009900;
  padding: 5px;
}
.downloadbutton A:link {color: white; text-decoration:none}
</style>

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• aac (.m4a, .m4b)
• h.264 (.mp4, .m4v, .mkv)
• mpeg4 (.avi), + flash
• .mov
• mpeg

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