Determine SID of Windows User
Sometimes when digging real deep into Windows like I recently had to, you need to have the Windows SID (Security Identifier) of a local user. I wasn't able to find any standard way of obtaining this info, so I wrote...
Allow Windows Users to Restart Service
Let's say you want your local restricted users to be able to restart specific services. On linux you'd probably type visudo. In Windows I found, you have to dig a little deeper into the system and really do your research....
Class 'Imagick' Not Found
I tried to do some Image Magick with PHP recently on an Ubuntu Feisty machine, and even though I had the required package: 'php5-imagick' installed, and I updated my php.ini with imagick.so, I kept getting the error Class 'Imagick' not...
PHP: tiff2pdf
Or: How to convert multipage TIFF to PDF in PHP.
Disable Snapping Windows in Compiz-Fusion
Running compiz-fusion for some time, one thing started to annoy me. Snapping windows. The first thing I obviously looked for was the Snapping Windows Plugin. But that was already disabled.