Today, I was looking at my printer queue and realised that Claire had tried to print something from the internet to my work printer. This meant that unless I went to the office – it would not print. A problem.
Because Claire had decided to use my laptop rather than one of the desktops, I was [...]

I needed to delete a chunk of cookies today – but I didn’t want to delete them all.
Thankfully there is a handy command that is within Windows versions after XP such as Server 2003 and Vista that will enable to clean up without too many problems.
The forfiles command will allow you to set a specific [...]

Here’s a useful guide for some IT people that are getting into Linux, and more specifically Ubuntu.
Basically, it’s a reference for Windows users to do Linux-type commands. I’ll be adding to this post as time goes on.
Shell Commands
sudo -i set the command shell to have root privileges
Networking Commands
ifconfig shows network information (ipconfig in Windows)
ifdown eth0 [...]

Downloading FLV videos can be a nuisance, as there are few regular players that they work on.
In Linux, there are various ways to convert FLV files to other formats. I’m hoping to build up a collection of commands and comment on the quality of the result.
Hopefully others will find it useful.
FFMpeg
ffmpeg -i video.flv -ab 56 [...]