Windows 8 / Macbook 2009 Lion mouse trackpad reversal

If you’ve got used to Mac OS X Lions reversal of the trackpad and you’ve just installed Windows 8 on your macbook, scrolling becomes a bit confusing. Simple fix. Open up a regedit (WinKey-R / cmdKey-R) Do a search for FlipFlopHScroll or FlipFlopWheel, change both values to a 1 instead of a 0 and reboot.… Read More »

FQDN of a Windows Server in Batch / CMD scripting….

Quick one for you (and there’s probably easier ways of doing this)…only took ten minutes to work it out tho. I needed to get the Fully Qualified Domain Name of a computer on the network into an environment variable in a batch script. Here’s the code snippet: @ECHO OFF FOR /f “tokens=2,* delims= ” %%a… Read More »

Silent Install of Oracle 11g R2

When I first started this site, the first article I wrote about was installing Oracle Client drivers on to Windows 2003. Nearly four years on, I got my hands on the latest version of Oracle with the latest version of Windows….