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LogParser, Event Logs, and Vista - Neil Carpenter's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

January 19, 2011

The only workaround to this is to convert the logfile to the new evtx format prior to parsing it.  You can do this in the event log viewer GUI by doing a Save As... but I find it easier to do this at the command prompt:

wevtutil epl application.evt application.evtx /lf:true

via blogs.technet.com

I'm trying to process Windows Event Viewer files (.evt) from some servers on my Win7 machine, which kept me giving a "log file is corrupt" error message. The trick is to convert it to the newer .evtx format before processing. Thankfully this can also be easily done using a command-line utility.

Making cygwin, Windows and emacs understand the same symlinks

September 28, 2010

Today I ran into the problem that symlinks created under cygwin using "ln -s" are not understood by Windows, and of course Windows shortcuts are seen by cygwin as regular files. Happily, this is a (semi-)solved problem. For reference, this is what needs to be done:

  1. Add "winsymlinks" to your CYGWIN environment variable. For example, in my .bashrc I have the following:

    export CYGWIN="nodosfilewarning winsymlinks"

    This makes cygwin create symlinks differently, in a form that is understood both by it and by Windows.
    This is the main step, and the only one if you just need access from the shell and from the Windows explorer. However, emacs still sees those symlinks as regular .lnk files. To fix this, follow the next step.

GTD Tip: one-key opening of INBOX notebook in OneNote

September 5, 2010
One of the most useful applications I have discovered since I had to switch to Windows as my main OS is OneNote, a really great note-taking application which I use for pretty much every data-storing and note-taking need. I use a OneNote notebook as part of my GTD inbox. Today's very simple tip is how to assign a keystroke for opening my Inbox notebook from anywhere in the system. Here are the steps:
  1. Download and install AutoHotKey, if you don't have it already (it's a really useful free application, well worth exploring).
  2. Add the following line to your default AutoHotKey.ahk file (normally in ~/Documents/AutoHotKey.ahk):

    ; AutoHotKey configuration to open my Inbox in OneNote.
    ; To use this, change the file path to the path of the GTD notebook
    ; you want to use. You may also want to change the key to which it
    ; is assigned (I use Win-i).
    #i::Run c:\Users\zambonid\Documents\OneNote Notebooks\GTD\INBOX.one
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Installing cfengine on Windows 7 under cygwin

August 23, 2010

Update (2011/09/05): Updated the instructions for cfengine 3.2.0, cygwin 1.7.9, and tested them on a clean cygwin install.

Installing the cfengine community edition under Windows (the commercial version includes native Windows support) is fairly easy under cygwin, you just need to have the appropriate dependencies installed. Here’s how I did it.

Versions  

  • cfengine: 3.2.0
  • Windows 7 Enterprise SP1/64bit
  • cygwin: 1.7.9-1

Additional cygwin packages needed 

To install these, run cygwin’s setup.exe, search for each packages in turn, and install them. Make sure you agree to install any additional packages that are listed as dependencies (setup.exe will ask you about it).

Installing AucTeX on EmacsW32 on Win7/64bit

August 17, 2010
Today I had to install AucTeX to use on my Win7/64 machine under EmacsW32. I found the basic instructions here: http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2007/09/01/installing-auctex-in-emacsw32, but I had to modify them a bit (in particular, I am using tetex installed from cygwin instead of MiKTeX). Here are the commands I used:

$  mkdir -p /usr/local/share/texmf
$ ./configure --prefix='c:/Program Files (x86)/Emacs/emacs' --with-texmf-dir='/usr/local/share/texmf' --with-lispdir='c:/Program Files (x86)/Emacs/emacs/site-lisp'
$  make
$  make install

I then added the following lines to my C:\Program Files (x86)\Emacs\site-lisp\site-start.el file:

Know your tools

April 22, 2010
I recently had to copy a very large file (>4GB) from a remote Windows share to my Windows 7 machine, over a very finicky connection (frequently-failing VPN over a slow Internet connection). A GUI copy didn't work because the connection dropped frequently. I tried Free Download Manager, which was the recommended tool for the download, but surprisingly, it wasn't always able to restart the download after connectivity dropped.

Then a colleague pointed me to the "copy /z" command:

Must-Have Windows Software (or Windows Programs that I use) - good coders code, great reuse

February 17, 2010
I am not just a Linux enthusiast, I also happen to use Windows quite often. In fact, Windows is my primary desktop from which I connect to all the other boxes and do my work on. During the years of Windows usage, I have accumulated a list of must-have Windows programs that I wouldn’t be able to work without. Some of them are commercial, some are freeware, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is how productive you are with your setup. If you’re really productive on Linux with your own set of tools, it’s perfectly fine and you have done a great job of finding the best tools of trade.
via catonmat.net

Having recently moved to Windows as my main desktop OS (out of work requirement, not by wish), I have been trying to find good software that makes it a more pleasant environment. This list has many good recommendations.