Just spend a few hours on a simple batch job issue ๐
I had a job.cmd file I executed, but the containing commands was not executed as Windows could not locate the filename.exe files ๐ย The problem was rather simple, the current directory (%cd%) while executing the job.cmd file was “c:windowssystem32”..ย doh ๐
Anyhow, found out that there is actually a simple way around this;
@Echo off
set IDP=%~dp0
set OLDDIR=%cd%
cd /d %IDP%
filename.exe /S
cd /d %OLDDIR%
This is rather simple, IDP (%IDP%) is set to the executing batch file’s directory via the IDP=%~dp0 and finally OLDDIR contain the ‘before’ current directory.ย If you need to set the %cd% at the end, well no probably not (but hey I’m a nice guy ๐ )..
For further details;
http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2005/01/28/get-directory-path-of-an-executing-batch-file.aspx
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/97731e49-ffa3-4918-87fb-5318743f29321033.mspx?mfr=true
Heard about Solid State Disks?ย No!?, well then you’d better start googling..
Basically a solid state disk is a ram ‘replacement’ for the HDD, the idea is less power consumption and maybe improved performance.ย The problem is that HDD’s are cheap SSD is not (yet), however some clever ‘geeks’ in Japan has come up with a solution – a board that can host Compact Flash Ram modules and function as a SSD disk..ย nice..
Read more;
http://www.comon.dk/index.php/news/show/id=35766
Manufacture is; http://www.century.co.jp/products/suto/sdb25cf.html
its available as both SATA and PATA although the SATA is the only one I have seen links to on western web-sites.ย But you can buy it directly from the manufacture, that is if your Japanese is better than mine ๐ http://www.century-direct.net/
Now as everyone else I have heard of WOW (World of Warcraft), Second Life and the list go on and on, but with a ‘First Life’ to take care of my time to explore such universes are limited.
Anyway I stumbled across a reference to a YouTube video that I simply had to share with you, maybe a good reason to keep out of wow ๐
Just shows that online computing can be a hazard to your mental state ๐ *lol*, but hey its cool that someone actually has the time and energy to really get it under their skin, shame I did not invent WOW man they must be earning a mean $ or two these days.