You can use the following command on windows to find a computer on your network based on the computer’s description. Basically replace the **** with whatever you used for a description…. person’s name, location, etc.
net view|find /i “****”

The easiest way to get the members of a MS Exchange distribution list is to query your MS Active Directory Server using standard LDAP technology.  This can be accomplish with using ColdFusion’s CFLDAP tag & a relatively simple LDAP query.  It a little challenging, because you probably have to be somewhat familiar with your LDAP [...]

If you every wanted to kill a windows task from the command line, taskkill is the command for you. You can even use it to kill a task on a remote computer.
References
http://www.microsoft.com
http://www.computerhope.com/taskkill.htm

To permanently delete a windows service open a command window and use the “sc” command.
Type
sc delete “your windows service name”

I have been using Linux as my desktop operating system off and on since 1998, and exclusively for the past year. It is far from perfect, but I love it and think everyone should at least check it out. In preparation for my Linux only lifestyle, I tried to only use software [...]

Mounting a Windows Share on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

You must have the smbfs libraries. They are not installed by default on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.

open a terminal window
sudo apt-get install smbfs

if you haven’t already done so, you must create a mount point for your windows share

I like to have mine under my home folder.

For [...]

My sister recently purchases a new Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop with Windows Vista Basic. Like the good brother I am, I thought I would save her a few hundred bucks by installing OpenOffice.org instead of MS Office. This was actually my first experience with Windows Vista, so I didn’t know what to expect.
Windows Vista [...]