To disable the PC board speaker

- "gestionnaire de peripheriques",
- afficher les peripheriques caches
- "beep", right click, "disable"

MySQL survival kit

To start it:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin>mysqld-nt.exe
You can also start it as a service
On Vista, the db file is:
C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\data\ibdata1

To see the tables:
mysql -u root
> use mysql
> show tables

> CREATE TABLE cumul_bench (
id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
test_desc varchar(100) default '',
tstamp datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

> show tables

> SHOW COLUMNS FROM cumul_bench

regex in mysql

WHERE cat_id REGEXP '^10.{6}$'    (start with a 10, followed by 6 digits)

• Enable query log  in  /etc/mysql/my.cnf   (affects performances)
• [mysqld]
• general_log      = on
• general_log_file = /var/log/mysql/query.log

•  

Cygwin survival kit

cygcheck -p

--- crontab:
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
net start cron

Vista / W2008server / Windows7 survival kit

* Reading the following, some folders are 'virtualized' on Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927387

The way around I took, is to create a c:\MyProgramFiles

* To add 'SendTo' shortcuts:
C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

* Stop continuous OS Disk Access (Vista):
- "points de restauration" in Panel/System/System protection
- Windows Defender

* Remove corrupted thumbnails in Windows7
- cleanmgr.exe (system32) and select "thumbnails". You may have to switch to the "details" view, and back again to the "large icons" view to finalize the reset

Initials

- AD: Active Directory
- ACL: Access Control List
- CLR: Common Language Runtime
- CLI: Common Language Infrastructure
- CPL: Courant Porteur en Ligne = Power Line Communication (PLC)
- CMF: content management frameworks
- CMS: content management system
- ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning
- GAC: Global Assembly Cache
- GED: Gestion Electronique de Documents
- LRU: Least Recently Used
- IT: Information technology
- LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP
- MOA: Maitrise d'ouvrage (cree les specs, effectue la recette), parois appele "metiers"
- MOE: Maitrise d'oeuvre (recommande, implemente)
- MVP: Minimum Viable Product  (asked as a first step for start up )
- PLN = CPL
- RIA: rich Internet application
- SLA: Service Level Agreement. In practice, the term SLA is sometimes used to refer to the contracted delivery time
- WMI: Windows Management Instrumentation
(nom du service en francais: Lanceur de processus DCOM)