Image Resize for Windows 7

I loved the image resize powertoy in XP – here’s a clone for 7!

ImageResizer2

Bicycling Resources, Mach I

Bicycle Georgia lists the meager traffic laws applicable to road cycling in Georgia.  Don’t complain to me if I take the lane in a scenario where me and my bike and you and your SUV aren’t going to fit together.

Firefox History

I surf way too much – and often I don’t realize the significance of some of the sites I visit until days later, and then I can’t remember the URL.  Introducing the Firefox plugin History Submenus!  Much ass kickery.

Windows 7 Desktop Refresh

Interesting – my work machine, a Windows 7 64 bit box, suddenly stopped auto-refreshing the desktop.  Delete something off the desktop, and its icon remained until you right clicked and chose Refresh.  Save something to the desktop, and it wouldn’t appear until you did the same.  A co-worker had the same issue  and, after some serious Googling, found the culprit.

Teracopy.

Uninstall Teracopy, and viola!  Desktop behaves.  Too bad, as I love me some Teracopy.  I’m currently test driving the alternative SuperCopier, which is uglier than Tera but so far works well and doesn’t fark up the refresh.

Perl PPM etc. through proxy

In order for Perl to work through a proxy (for Perl Package Manager, etc) you need to define the proxy as a system environment variable:

Right click on “My Computer”, click on “Properties” and select the “Advanced” tab. Click the button marked “Environment Variables” and make the following changes in the “System Variables” window:

  1. With the “New” button, add the setting HTTP_proxy, with your proxy name as the value (you must include ”
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    http://

    “), followed by a colon and the proxy port, if applicable; e.g., ”

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    http://proxy:8080

    “

  2. If you require a user name and/or password to access your proxy, use the “New” button to add the settings HTTP_proxy_user and HTTP_proxy_pass, with your user name and password as the respective values.

From the ActivePerl FAQ.

CMS MySQL Password Woes?

Forget a MODx/MySql database pass for a client?  Me too.  Thankfully, it’s easily located at

/manager/includes/config.inc.php

How about WordPress?  Me too again.  It’s the wp-config.php file in the root.

Speaking of these files, make sure to CHMOD them to 600 for protection.