CedarLogic, LLC - Shawn Cicoria

Here's a nice site that helps us Vista folk out on identifying which services are really needed, can be delayed start, or even disabled.  General Service information too. While I Hibernate most of the time (shutdown -h) there are those times I need to reboot.  Anything to save a few... Windows Vista Services Explained

There are really a whole bunch of great resources out there that help the community get up & running with LINQ. Personally, with all the additional providers that I've seen (Qak Leaf List) - several of which I see great use for - LINQ to SharePoint and LINQ to LDAP / LINQ for AD. In regards to tools, LINQ Pad is the tool that allows you to ...

Now that GotDotNet has been mothballed and CodePlex is more project oriented, Microsoft has gotten back into the mix with Code Gallery. This is a community site, the content is minimal for now, and quite frankly, the interface is lacking.  While there's search, there's not much meta-data associated with the uploads. We'll see how it pans ...

For those of us that are cheap value minded, here's a service that provides conference calling, albeit using a long distance call.  But with all you can eat phone pricing we have today, who cares. They also have a Web Desktop Sharing tool, in Beta - haven't tried it but the basic service for voice conference is great. Some outlook ...

Ryan Dunn points out on his blog how to install ADAM on Vista.  Basically, the installer chokes. His approach is to install on a different machine (not Vista), then copy the files over, registry change, run the admininsall.exe, then import the LDIF schema's you want. One thing you can also do is use 7-Zip to extract the ''ADAM'' directory ...

I've been using Meta Products download express for some time now.  Basically, it's a tool that if you brows to a page, see a bunch of links on that page pointing to downloads (zip, doc, rar, etc.) and you don't want to just click on each choose save and go through the annoying process of clicking every, this scrapes the HTML and presents a ...

I found this tool from an article in Code Magazine. Package This uses the MSDN Content Service Web Services to first give you a list of MSDN or TechNet categories, then you can just click and download, and generate either HxS or CHM files. If you don't want to install the entire MSDN library this tools allows you to store it in a CHM, which ...

I've mostly switched to FireFox based upon it's speed and in comparison to IE it's a heck of a lot less clunky. However downloading files is limited, by default to 2 connections per server. Although the general W3C spec on HTTP downloads (or in actuality) 3 simultaneous connections to a server from a client, I feel the need to violate that ...

Greg Poole has updated the batch file renaming utility that I posted a while back (http://cicoria.com/CS1/blogs/cedarlogic/archive/2006/07/10/260.aspx) Here's his updates: http://m4dm4n.homelinux.net:8086/blog.php?id=31 From Greg's post: I've spent some time looking around to find a batch file renamer which meets my needs, without much luck. ...

I've recently been testing out Windows Home Server Beta.  The concept is simple and Home Server is much more than just a NAS device.  It adds a bunch of capabilities for keeping various devices (up to 10) on your home network backed up, along with a place to safely keep your network based data on a server.  However, I needed ...