Archive for September, 2006

PHP functions for next Saturday and previous Sunday

I needed a way to find the first second of a week and the last second of a week based on a Unix timestamp.

Mounting an external drive to an NTFS folder, and not being able to delete subfolders

Last weekend I bought a 250gb external usb Lifebook to act as a backup drive to replace a crashed drive in my file server. Since my computer was already filling up with drive letters thanks to a network, another external drive, and a media card reader that takes 4 drive letters I decided to [...]

Enabling the Security tab in Windows XP

I was going nuts trying to figure out how to get to the security settings for a folder in WinXP MCE.  In Win2k it was under properties, but it wouldn’t show up under XP.
The most popular option I found was to reboot in Safe Mode, but that’s a pain to do every time I want [...]

Old software – nDB and nCopy

Back in the previous life of Nutt.net I had two programs on here that I wrote while in high school (I graduated in 1997 so it’s been a few years). These programs – nDB and nCopy (also called Copier in an early version) – are no longer on this site as I am not supporting [...]

Found a trick in Eventum – Autolinking issues

I’ve been using Eventum from the MySQL people for issue / bug tracking on a couple of my projects and stumbled upon a pretty slick little feature today that I didn’t know about. Maybe if I had actually read the manual I would have known, but here we are.
If you write in ‘issue #123′ [...]