Handy Tip o’ the Day

Posted on August 27, 2006 No Comments

Been totally swamped with the day job recently. Some of it a real drag, some of it pretty intriguing. The intriguing thing is a bit of re-inventing a wheel that’s been invented a million times… yet a great challenge and is keeping me up entirely too late futzing with it. In brief, it’s the “given a SQL select over a table or updateable view, build a complete and dynamic management system for CRUD” (CReate, Update, Delete). In classic ASP. Without using AJAX. In other words, take on every 4GL every announced. I’m learning a lot about ADO… and making great progress. Old school as all heck but this stuff could come in quite handy for a few upcoming work projects. If I get really zany, I might even write about some of the more interesting aspects.

Anyways, on to the Tip of the Day: When using Remote Desktop Connection to control a WinXP machine, you’ll notice that the Start Menu no longer has options to Shutdown or Restart. If things have gone a bit pear shaped, this can initially be quite distressing! Earlier today I was about to enter “oh-crap, I-have-to-drive-into-the-office” mode, when I recalled that XP also introduced the “shutdown” command (also in win2k3). A wonderful utility to bounce those recalcitrant servers, but it also works as a fine way to reboot the machine you’re currently on. I like the spiffy gui interface, so I just did a: