We recently got clobbered by a Typhoon over here in Manila. It was the worst rainfall we’ve had in over 40 years. A lot of people lost their homes and things. People are saying that this is caused by climate change. I’m starting to agree because typically the end of September should have this much rain and yet in the span of 6 hours we’ve had a month’s worth of rain.
This brings me to the topic of my post today. I’m happy about the fact that Apple has shown a lot of responsibility towards the environment and going green. As …read more

I use Launchy and so have no need for program launch icons, be it on the Desktop or Quick Launch or Windows Start. I don’t even use the Quick Launch toolbar and all I knew until recently was that you add a quick launch icon by dragging any program (or a shortcut pointing to that program) into the toolbar.\\r\\n\\r\\nToday, when I accidentally deleted one of the quick launch icons of a machine not belonging to me, I found the obscure location of the quick launch icons:\\r\\n
%APPDATA%\\\\Microsoft\\\\Internet Explorer\\\\Quick Launch
\\r\\n\\r\\n(APPDATA is an environment variable which can be found by typing echo %APPDATA% …read more

Environment variables are a set of dynamic variables that can determine the environment in which a process runs. While they are more easily visible and often used in Unix-based OSs, they are equally essential on Windows. A little knowledge is especially important to write batch programs (.BAT).
The command env typed in your command prompt or Cygwin terminal will list the entire set of environment variables and their current values. My Computer –> Properties –> Advanced –> Environment Variables will also show you the Windows environment variables divided into two categories: System variables and User variables.

While on cmd each variable can …read more