Chris Tate-Davies

An archive of helpful tit bits of information for development, and probably some stuff that is incomplete, wrong or boring…

CSV file of Windows Process list

If you need a CSV file of the currently running  processes in Windows you can use the task manager command line tool. C:> TASKLIST.EXE This will dump the task list to the screen. But there are several options you can use: C:> TASKLIST.EXE /V /FO CSV > filename.csv The above will produce a nicely formatted [...]

Stupid Microsoft error messages

Why is it that the Microsoft developers have an inability to get their systems and processes to output a meaningful error message now and again? I mean, is it really that hard? I try to stay away from company slagging, but Microsoft, really…? I have recently bought an XBox 360 and I think its great. [...]

Installing Tahoma font in Ubuntu

The stylesheet of our intranet is primarily Tahoma, and Firefox on Ubuntu doesn’t look good. To install the Microsoft Core Fonts package in Ubuntu, run the following in your terminal: sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts And then this should go away and get them. Lovely. NB, if this doesn’t take immediate effect, you can rebuild the [...]

  • Chris Tate-Davies

    Hello there. This is my little "repository" on the world wide web. Its for nothing more than documenting things that I might need again in the future. You could describe it as an extension to my memory.

    Also an online collaboration of my thoughts through the day. I'll try to keep the real random stuff out and keep the blog on course.

    Thanks for stopping by... Hope you find what you're looking for...

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