Charles Nadeau: My SoftwareComments and observations related to the usage and installation of softwares on my systems.I installed the SpamBayes plug-in for Outlook- May 27, 2003 I just installed the SpamBayes plug-in for Outlook. Like Jon Udell, I think it just rocks. The fact it relies on the words of the content and their occurences protects me against spam especially well since most of my friends and familly are writing to me in French while 99.9999% of the spam is in English. In this case, ham and spam don't even use the same words corpus!http://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/categories/mySoftware/2003/05/27.html#a295 Installing Gentoo- May 23, 2003 I am installing Gentoo Linux on one of my PC at home. Things went pretty well except at the beginning where I was looking for a simpler way to bootstrap the process since I couldn't boot from the CD. I finally found a way using the Slackware boot disks. On this puny P166MMX192MB it took almost 36 hours doing scriptsbootstrap.sh then emerge system. Now I am compiling the OpenMosix kernel. It is not very fast but at the end, I'll have a system completely tailored to my need.http://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/categories/mySoftware/2003/05/23.html#a293 Trying to install gentoo- May 19, 2003 I tried to install Gentoo tonight but I have a problem burning a bootable CD from the ISO files available. I posted a message about it on the Gentoo forum. If you read it and have a solution, let me know.http://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/categories/mySoftware/2003/05/19.html#a289 Gzip support for Radio- May 13, 2003 It seems there is a gzip plug-in for Radio. Anybody out there with the URLhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/categories/mySoftware/2003/05/13.html#a285 Autocompletion in the command prompt!- May 11, 2003 Autocompletion in the command prompt!. Roy Osherove posted a link to some cool Registry settings. One of them I found quite usefull: Enable AutoCompletion in Command Prompt. Once this setting is done, you can use the tab key for autocompleting while typing in the command prompt (cmd)! For example you type "cd c:progr" (without return) and press the tab key, "progr" will be completed to "Program Files". To enable this setting, change the following key in the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/categories/mySoftware/2003/05/11.html#a284 Programatically transfering pictures properties- May 11, 2003 Transferring properties to a thumbnail image. A while back, I created a simple console app for thumbnailing photos for posting on my family Web site. The application simply asks for a directory and a reduction percentage, then looks for any images in the directory provided and reduces them by the requested percentage. This was fine as far as it went, but I realized after a colleague, Ryan Trudelle-Schwarz, requested copies of some of the photos I'd thumbnailed with this app, that I had...http://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/categories/mySoftware/2003/05/11.html#a283 T-SQL trick- May 7, 2003 T-SQL Tip of the day. Just to test the w.bloggar tool with this blog and because it's always nice to have something to say, I thought why not post a nice T-SQL Tip. (It works on Oracle too btw) Optional parameters When you have a table, say Orders (as in the Northwind database which comes with SQLServer), which has more than 1 foreign key (FK), it is typical that developers will query the Orders table based on a combination of these FK fields. However, as with the Orders table, this can be...http://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/categories/mySoftware/2003/05/07.html#a280 |