New hotmail on chrome
All new hotmail is even more annoying on chrome. Earlier (Sep/2008) I blogged about hotmail having some trouble when opened on chrome. Then about some issues with new hotmail in general (Oct/2008). Hotmail has been improving (or simply changing) since then. But looks like these improvements (???) have made it complete disaster on chrome. Links are not working. I can't even reply or delete. And I guess it's not only me.
Closing cmd window after executing bat file
Just a small post you may find useful if you are as annoyed as I was of a command window left open after execution of a bat file.
I had to call an exe with some options. So I wrote a bat for it. But after executing the bat file, it always kept a command window open until I explicitly close it or the executed program finishes. Actually the command window remains open till the control is returned from the exe to bat again. Point to be noted is EXIT doesn't help in this case as it's call is also deferred until control is returned back.
eg.
Use start before the command so your bat calls the exe and continues its execution i.e. doesn't wait for the exe to complete the execution
You can use pause command for "Press any key to continue . . ."
I had to call an exe with some options. So I wrote a bat for it. But after executing the bat file, it always kept a command window open until I explicitly close it or the executed program finishes. Actually the command window remains open till the control is returned from the exe to bat again. Point to be noted is EXIT doesn't help in this case as it's call is also deferred until control is returned back.
eg.
start-netbeans.bat
netbeans --jdkhome d:\dev\jdk
putty-to-server.bat
d:\programs\putty -pw password username@ip-addrs
Use start before the command so your bat calls the exe and continues its execution i.e. doesn't wait for the exe to complete the execution
start netbeans --jdkhome d:\dev\jdk
start d:\programs\putty -pw password username@ip-addrs
You can use pause command for "Press any key to continue . . ."
The Pen
My friend calls me on my cell and wants me to note down a number. Du-uh I manage to get a piece of paper but where the hell is the pen. I search here and there and finally I end up saving that number on my cell while I put my friend on speaker. To hit the last nail, I press the end button when call is over, and Whoa.. the number is erased from the screen. The point here is not how I lost that number, the point is where do all the pens go? This phenomenon of losing pen when its required most is not limited to my home but happens every now and then at my workplace too.
No matter how safely i keep it (the pen) at some place, it is either lost or stolen. There is a big black-hole that swallows every pen that comes it's way. Strangely this AI-enabled black-hole leaves those pen that can no longer work, largely because of exhausted refill ink. In fact, sometimes the same stolen pen is also found after some days. I think the black-hole spits it out when my need is over.
At my desk, sometimes I find a pen that I neither bought nor borrowed from some one. Anyways, I use it and then one fine day that is also gone. If my black-hole theory is not correct then there is certainly a mafia involvement behind the lost and found of pens.
Recently I bought a pen and could hardly use it before it was gone (from home) and atleast 3 pens were missing from my desk when i came back from vaccation (at my workplace). So thought of sharing my grief with you guys
No matter how safely i keep it (the pen) at some place, it is either lost or stolen. There is a big black-hole that swallows every pen that comes it's way. Strangely this AI-enabled black-hole leaves those pen that can no longer work, largely because of exhausted refill ink. In fact, sometimes the same stolen pen is also found after some days. I think the black-hole spits it out when my need is over.
At my desk, sometimes I find a pen that I neither bought nor borrowed from some one. Anyways, I use it and then one fine day that is also gone. If my black-hole theory is not correct then there is certainly a mafia involvement behind the lost and found of pens.
Recently I bought a pen and could hardly use it before it was gone (from home) and atleast 3 pens were missing from my desk when i came back from vaccation (at my workplace). So thought of sharing my grief with you guys
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)