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VBScript To Pull Events From Event Log And Email To Yourself – Past 24 Hours

So, you want to see what events have occured on a server in the past 24 hours. Maybe you have a problematic server, throwing errors but your event log is so massive , its hard to sort through.

This script will sift through your entire event log, searching for any events in the past 24 hours that match your event code, it will save the results to a .TXT file , and then email them to you. v.handy


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VB.Net Forms Confirmation Box

How to create a simple confirmation box in a VB.Net WinForms application.    This will pop up a typical “Do You Wish To Continue ? ” Box , to which each button has a different action.


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Kill All Processes Of Certain Application In Unix/Linux

This is a very helpful command I use regularly.

If your like me, you open several instances of applications like “VI” and leave them in the background, most of the time without meaning to.  Eventually you run a “PS -U” to view all your processes running and realize that theres 10 copies of the application running in the background which you havnt closed. Heres a command to quickly clear that up.
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SteerMouse For Mac OSX

Hardest part about moving to a mac was Apples terrible mouse acceleration system and its highly in-accurate  USB rate … It basically made it impossible to do the graphic design work that I used to do on a PC.   Anybody coming from a PC to a mac that does any sort of accurate mouse work will know what im talking about . . . Steermouse fixes that problem and gets your mouse running smooth as silk  .. I highly recommend it ! http://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/

Embedding XHTML Compliant Flash Files

All to often people all over the web use non-xhtml embedding on their sites.
Use the following code to embed fully XHTML 1.0 compliant flash objects.
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Importing VBS Files In Your VBScript Project

If you have certain functions you use over and over , why not compile them all into a single library file , and simply “Import” them into your new projects, like a real object oriented language does?.

If your one of those people that has a script to do everything , you may find the need to organise your functions and files necessary. You can use this method to store configuration options too.

Here’s how.


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How To Convert Custom Date Format In VB.Net

Problem:

I want to convert my custom 12 hour date and time string into a proper 24 hour DateTime format.
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Help Me eMailbomb An eBay Scammer

So we’ve all seen it, but it still burns me up everytime.  You try to sell something on eBay,  you get creative with photoshop and attempt to make it all look pretty,  you list the thing for 9 days or so to get your money’s worth , and then you sit there each day watching the auction eagerly like an old man in a peep show.
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