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      Decoding CHM Files

      Somewhere in the neighborhood of about 2006, Microsoft's HTML help viewer application stopped gracefully opening CHM (compressed HTML help) files consistently.  I've noticed this problem on XP, Vista and Win7, across rebuilds, across browser versions, nearly universally.  There's a lot of advice out there about how to make Windows open CHM files correctly when faced with a content pane in the viewer application that reads "Navigation to the webpage was cancelled", however on my Windows 7 x64 workstation nothing worked.  A quick Google search this morning yielded a handy little utility called CHM Decoder that will extract the HTML content from a CHM file, allowing you to view the contents within a web browser.  Great stuff!

      http://www.gridinsoft.com/chm.php


      Categories: IT | Windows
      Posted by Jason on Friday, February 26, 2010 12:51 PM
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      An Open Letter to Colorado's Congressional Delegation

      I am writing today as your constituent to ask you to support the Fair Elections Now Act, H.R. 1826/S. 752.

      The Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United last month is exactly wrong for America.  Congress' current legislative efforts to fix our representatives' dependency on fundraising are simply not strong enough.

      We NEED citizen-funded elections.  Every taxpayer dollar we spend on funding campaigns for office is another dollar invested in the future of this country and it's people.

      As a registered independant, as well as an active voter, I look forward to supporting you in your next election - but my support will depend strongly on the stance you take in this fight.  Thank you for your service to Colorado, and thank you for your time today.

      Sincerely,

      Jason Huitt

      http://FixCongressFirst.org/

      http://Change-Congress.org/


      Categories: Open Letters
      Posted by Jason on Friday, February 12, 2010 11:03 AM
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      Powershell Goodies - Processes

      To view processes on a computer and their current physical memory consumption:

      Get-Process -ComputerName <name> | select Name, WS | sort WS

      • Omit ComputerName to get processes on the local machine
      • WS = Working Set - returned in KB, size of pages in physical memory for a given process
      • VM = Amount of virtual memory (page file) committed for use by a given process
      • CPU = Amount of process time in use by a given process (for all available processors)

      Categories: IT
      Posted by Jason on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:16 PM
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