How many times have you clicked Start > Run > CMD

Do you know that there are a lot more options to that cmd command, some of them quite useful:

In particular cmd /k “command” opens a command prompt, shows you the results of command and then leaves the prompt open.

On the other hand, cmd /c “command” executes the command and then terminates.

C:Documents and SettingsAdministrator>help cmd
Starts a new instance of the Windows command interpreterCMD [/A | /U] [/Q] [/D] [/E:ON | /E:OFF] [/F:ON | /F:OFF] [/V:ON | /V:OFF]
[[/S] [/C | /K] string]

/C Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates
/K Carries out the command specified by string but remains
/S Modifies the treatment of string after /C or /K (see below)
/Q Turns echo off
/D Disable execution of AutoRun commands from registry (see below)
/A Causes the output of internal commands to a pipe or file to be ANSI
/U Causes the output of internal commands to a pipe or file to be
Unicode
/T:fg Sets the foreground/background colors (see COLOR /? for more info)
/E:ON Enable command extensions (see below)
/E:OFF Disable command extensions (see below)
/F:ON Enable file and directory name completion characters (see below)
/F:OFF Disable file and directory name completion characters (see below)
/V:ON Enable delayed environment variable expansion using ! as the
delimiter. For example, /V:ON would allow !var! to expand the
variable var at execution time. The var syntax expands variables
at input time, which is quite a different thing when inside of a FOR
loop.
/V:OFF Disable delayed environment expansion.

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Stop and Start Services under RedHat Linux

 

/etc/init.d/named restart

service named restart

…is an easier way of doing the same thing.

Restarting a service in linux

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Rant for the day :

Don’t know about you, but I never really liked Firefox 2. Here are a few reasons why:

1. It is slow.
2. The colours on the interface are too glossy
3. An X on each tab, takes up space when a lot of tabs are open.
4. Tab scrolling, when a lot of tabs are open, not showing all open tabs
5. It is less stable than 1.5

The worst part is that there will be no more updates for the 1.5 series of Firefox.

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 Update: according to Firefox.com support for 1.5 has been extended till mid May

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