A poor man’s version check for programs on Microsoft Windows using PowerShell

Keeping up to date is a lot of work, especially for programs which do not have an auto-update feature. The first step is to be able to find out what version of a program is actually installed. PowerShell to the rescue! For example, to find out what version of InternetExplorer is installed without actually launching […]

Posted at 14:47 on 2012/08/06 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Powershell, Programming, Windows XP | Tagged: , , , | read on

How to expand the root filesystem of a 12.04 Ubuntu running inside VMWare Player

Yesterday, I ran into the problem that I was missing enough disk space to upgrade my virtualised Ubuntu from 11.10 to 12.04. At least ‘do-release-upgrade’ told me so prior to having 100% disk full errors. As I do not know of any magic tricks to cheat ‘do-release-upgrade’ I decided to expand the root file system. […]

Posted at 15:45 on 2012/04/30 | 23 comments | Filed Under: howto, Linux | Tagged: , , , , , , | read on

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