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General IT
General IT
Are We Truly Free to Develop Mobile/Wearable Apps?
From a Web Developer’s Perspective I am primarily an iOS user, but at home, I also use Android devices (such as tablets, Fire TV,
General IT
DeepSeek API Calls
Recently, I was reviewing the API calls of DeepSeek. Right away, I noticed that everything aligns directly with OpenAI counterparts.
General IT
Real-Time Bitcoin Price Chrome extension
I’m pleased to introduce a small project I’ve been working on—a Chrome extension that lets you quickly check Bitcoin prices
General IT
How to Add Perplexity as a Search Engine in Edge (and Other Browsers)
I’ve been moving away from Google, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo lately. Perplexity not only provides better answers most of the time,
General IT
my very first Google Chrome extension
Just released the first public version of my Icinga Chrome Extension (ICE). In the beginning I developed it for my
programming
Bubble sorting with Perl
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Data::Dumper; sub swap{ @_[ 0, 1 ] = @_[ 1, 0 ]; } sub
powershell
Listing windows services statuses with Powershell
$stopingServices=Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.status -eq “stoping”} $startingServices=Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.status -eq “starting”} $runningServices=Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.status -eq “running”} $stoppedServices=Get-Service |
powershell
view the registry entries with powershell
Get-ItemProperty -Path Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation
powershell, programming
Listing IIS Application Pool Memory usage in PowerShell
Open Powershell as an Administrator on the web server, then run: $apmem= gwmi -ComputerName localhost -NS ‘root\WebAdministration’ -class ‘WorkerProcess’ |