Category: Technology

CL1P.net – The Internet Clipboard

I really like this tool that was recommended to me by Mark Sibley.

 

  • To use this clipboard, make up a URL similar to this and type it into your browser.
    http://cl1p.net/bishReplace the word ‘bish’ in the above URL with anything that you want.
    Cl1p.net screenshot
  • Type or paste any text (like I did above) into the clipboard and click “save”.
  • Then, from any other PC open a browser up to the same URL to access the “clipboard” from somewhere else.
Whilst this is useful, I wouldn’t recommend using this public facility for sharing secret or commercially sensitive information.
It’s handy for the odd code-snippet or for sharing information with colleagues.

 

Number pad / Numeric keypad not working in Ubuntu 10.10

This was really annoying me until I found the cause of the problem……

I have a virtual machine running Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat).
They keyboard has always worked perfectly until some updates a few days ago.
After running the updates, I found that my numeric keypad had stopped working.

To fix this, click System > Preferences > Keyboard
Select the Mouse Keys tab and uncheck the “Pointer can be controlled using the keypad” option.

Screenshot

 

Setting timezone on PCs using a batch file

 

For some testing recently I had to reset all our test PCs to use UTC (GMT) instead of BST.
This meant that our LoadRunner log files and test results would tie-in with the log files on the UNIX systems which we were testing.
It’s worth noting that W3C log files (web server loig files) all use UTC time as well, so this is useful if you want to synchronise your times with the rest of the “non-Windows” world.
Use this command to set your timezone to UTC…. (tested on Windows XP and Windows 2003 server).
[code]RunDLL32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL timedate.cpl,,/Z (GMT) Coordinated Universal Time[/code]

For some testing recently I had to reset all our test PCs to use UTC (GMT) instead of BST.

This meant that our LoadRunner log files and test results would tie-in with the log files on the UNIX systems which we were testing. It’s worth noting that W3C log files (web server loig files) all use UTC time as well, so this is useful if you want to synchronise your times with the rest of the “non-Windows” world.

 

Use this command to set your timezone to UTC…. (tested on Windows XP and Windows 2003 server).

RunDLL32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL timedate.cpl,,/Z (GMT) Coordinated Universal Time