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While working on one of my web servers, I came up against a problem that required me to run a script every hour. However, due to the limitations on the NT Task Scheduler, I would have had to enter 24 different scheduled tasks to accomplish this. That is when I figured someone had to have written a “cron-like” scheduler for NT.

After a little research on the web, I found NT Cron, which was exactly what I needed. After a quick look at the documentation I knew that this was exactly what I needed. NT Cron runs from a crontab file just like its Linux counterpart, and allows you to run tasks pretty much however you want, down to every minute if you want too.

NT Cron comes in two distributions. One that runs as a standalone application, and one that runs as a service. Since this was as server I was installing on, I choose the service version. I then installed NT Cron following the supplied instructions and created my crontab file. Within a matter of minutes Cron was off and running, and running my scheduled task every hour.

The Crontab file has a line for each task that follows this format.

(Minute) (Hour) (Day) (Month) (Day of Week) (Command line)

Examples:
execute the program backup.bat every hour
0 * * * * backup.bat

copy some files every half hour
0,30 * * * * xcopy c:\docs\*.* y:\users /s

This is an article published on crosswalk.com and written by Rand Hummel. It mentioned Safe Eyes. Rand Hummel has been a long time supporter of Safe Eyes and I appreciate him mentioning us in his article.

So it is true…the world does want to hear what I have to say. My traffic has more than doubled this month. So now 4 people keep up on my blog!

Among the most searched on things for my blog are instructions on how to remove the Dell wallpaper at login. There has also been some interest on configuring the Verizon XV6600 Bluetooth Dialup Networking. Which BTW I hooked up to MacBook Pro running Windows XP, more on that in a later post maybe.

Thanks for stopping by.

UPDATED 07/20/2008: After John’s comment, I though it would be worth posting an update to this post. He is right, this is kind of old an old post. After about 6 months to a year of not eating at Chilitos, I decided one day to give it another try probably 6 months ago. They do have good food, and I eat there on occasion now and have never had any more problems with food quality.

The end of last week my typical lunch gang decided it was time for “Football Burritos”. That is what they call the overstuffed burritos at Chilito’s cal-mex. Burrito was great, but the moldy chips really weren’t. I noticed it on the last chip….which means I probably ate some. But I’m not dead yet, as is evidenced by this post. However, I don’t think I will ever go back.

I will stick to the Buckhead Burrito Grill. Wednesday has become known as BBG day around our office and with some of our friends. If you celebrate BBG day with me link up Buckhead Burrito Grill Best Tex-mex in Kennesaw, they should be number 1 for “buckhead burrito grill” in Google, but instead some stupid map site/review site with zero usefull informatoin is.

From the menu about the only thing I can recommend is the Rio Burrito, not that the other stuff isn’t good, I just have never had anything else. If you are in Kennesaw you need to take a trip to Buckhead Burrito Grill.

Man I just realized I have a lunch appointment tommorow, which means not BBG day this week.

This weekend me and my brother took a trip down to a local Dodge dealer to take a look at the new Dodge Charger. Usually me and my brother don’t share much in the way of taste in cars. However, we agree on this one….very nice.

We went for a spin in the Daytona R/T with the 5.7 Hemi. I didn’t want to drive, I need to stay content with the car I have. The car has a ton of power and sounds like a muscle car should. I was suprised by the size, and the amount of room in the back. I think an adult would easily be comfortable in the backseat for a road trip.

I need to get working on my Mustang.

Well the gamble with the window tint on my wife’s car didn’t pay off. For those of you that are new to my site, Georgia changed the window tint law after I bought my wife her car, which the windows were already tinted past the new legal limit. She had been pulled over once a day or two after the law went into affect, and I figured it would cool off and we wouldn’t have a problem. Last week she was pulled over and ticketed for tint violation. It is a $97.50 fine. It was going to cost $100 to re-tint the windows. So now I am out $197.50 and she has new tint on her windows.

Just got this CD in the mail a day or two ago. It was a great opportunity for the CD player in my car to actually get some use as I haven’t yet taken the time to transfer it to my ipod. I enjoyed it, if you want to hear some of the CD stop by Third Day’s website.

Story of my life, it was there all along and I was looking in the wrong place. With the bigdaddy update the Googlebot’s User-Agent string changed from “Googlebot/2.1″ to “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”

This was throwing off the regular expression used by my stats program to detect the Googlebot. Fixed that and now I am enjoying regular visits.

Where is the Googlebot? I haven’t seen it since the 28th across about 6 different sites I monitor. One site had a visit on the 3rd but not since then. This is not normal. Is it related to the bigdaddy rollout? Anyone else seeing…or not seeing in this case the same thing?

So Verizon sent me a new handset after all of the freezing up problems I have been having. I have had it for one day and it hasn’t locked up yet. Since I had a new phone and a new laptop I had to re-tether the phone to the laptop and try to get online again with it.

This post is coming to you from the Emergency Room at the Cartersville Hospital. They have Wi-Fi here, but it has a WEP key and thought it a tad bit irresponsible to attempt to get online through it in a place where peoples lives could hang in the balance.

Why am I at the Emergency room? Well the wife cut her finger. But hey, gave me a reason to try my bluetooth access through the phone. Here is how you set it up for a Mac running Tiger.

1. Enable Bluetooth on phone and computer.
2. Make sure Dialup Networking Server service is enabled on the phone.
3. In computer setup new bluetooth devices and when it asks for device type select “Any Device” Follow on screen tethering instructions.
4. Phone should show up after a few minutes.
5. Open up “Internet Connect” and select “Bluetooth”.
6. Define a new connection to phone number #777, user tendigitphone@vzw3g.com and password is vzw.
7. Start the connection, you will have to accept it on the phone.
8. You should be able to get online.