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Prevent Windows Update from restarting the computer

You’re working… Windows tells you there are updates to be installed and you innocently say yes…

WindowsUpdate_Installing

After some minutes you get the infamous message:

Updating your computer is almost complete. You must restart your computer for the updates to take effect. Do you want to restart your computer now? Restart Now. Restart Later.

It doesn’t matter if you press “Restart Later”, it will reappear in some minutes to check if you changed your mind…

Please tell me what to do!

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A Very Creative Packaging (PowerCooler Power Source)

Some time ago, I bought a power source which came with a very interesting pacakaging: it seemed to be a toolbox!

Later, when I read some of the information which came inside, I realized they wanted you to use it as a toolbox

I leave you some pictures…

PowerCooler_Package_1

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SMS Scheduler

4 o’clock in the morning… You’re going late to bed… Suddenly, you remember you had to send someone a message with some important information he should have at 9 o’clock…

Of course you don’t want to wake up at 9:00… If you send the message at this moment, you’ll probably wake him up if he didn’t power off the phone (he deserves it! :))…

So what can you do? This tool is the answer…

SMS_Scheduler_1

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Attendance Control (wxWidgets Version)

wxAttendanceControl is a GUI version of Attendance Control.

It’s been prepared as a further introduction exercise to the wxWidgets GUI (Graphical User Interface) usage (the basic introduction exercise was the Celsius to Fahrenheit application).

For the complete exercise explanation please visit the original Attendance Control exercise.

wxControlAsistencia1

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Celsius to Fahrenheit

If you just want to convert temperatures by using a website, you should visit the online celsius to fahrenheit conversion tool. Otherwise, keep reading…

This is a very tiny and simple application I’ve written to teach the basic usage of wxWidgets as an introduction to GUI (Graphical User Interfaces).

Its purpose is just what it’s name says: converting from celsius degrees to fahrenheit degrees (and sideways).

CelsiusAFahrenheit

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Attendance Control

“Attendance Control” is a console application made as an exercise to integrate the different C++ concepts taught in class up to the middle of the year.

The main objective is to be able to develop a employee attendance control which records the times (and justifications, if corresponding) of each time the employees arrive, go to lunch, return from lunch and go back to home.

Sistema de control de asistencia de personal
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DNI:

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Wake On LAN (Remotely power on a computer)

Have you ever wondered how you could power on a computer remotely?

Well, with this program you can do it!

C:\>wol

Wake-On-Lan (WOL) Tool v1.0 by NeoEGM
http://www.neoegm.com/software/wake-on-lan/
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Usage: wol 

Wakes the computer with the specified MAC address.

Accepted MAC address formats: 01-4B-8E-00-52-A1
                              01-4b-8e-00-52-a1
                              01:4B:8E:00:52:A1
                              01:4b:8e:00:52:a1
                              014B.8E00.52A1
                              014b.8e00.52a1
                              014b8e0052a1
                              014B8E0052A1

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WP-No-Format WordPress Plugin (Prevent HTML Code Formatting/Modification)

For the ones used to work with WordPress editor’s HTML mode and hate when it creates <p>s and reorganize <br/>s on its will (among other things), I’ve made this plugin.

I’ve been searching a lot for this kind of functionality and, since I couldn’t find any plugin which let you decide which parts of the code you’d want to leave “unformatted”, I started to write my own…

WP-No-Format

It’s very simple to use. After activating it, you can just type:

<!-- noformat on -->

on the WordPress editor, just before the part you want to protect, and from that point on, WordPress won’t touch the HTML code you write.

If you want to resume the standard “formatting” you have to type:

<!-- noformat off -->

And that’s all!

GNU GPL v3 WP-No-Format is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 (attached)…

Update (version 1.1): added convert_chars function support. Before, some characters got converted to HTML entities (for example, when writting “&&” appeared as “&#038;&”). [Update recommended]

Here is the change log.

Latest WordPress version tested with: 2.8.4

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UpTime (How much time has the computer been powered on)

With this tiny tool, you can know how much time has the computer been powered on…

UpTime

GNU GPL v3 UpTime is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 (attached)…

As usual, here are the links…

For the ones who want to easily read the relevant code:

DWORD dwMilliseconds = GetTickCount();

int nSeconds = (dwMilliseconds/1000)%60;
int nMinutes = (dwMilliseconds/1000/60)%60;
int nHours = (dwMilliseconds/1000/60/60)%24;
int nDays = dwMilliseconds/1000/60/60/24;

char pszStr[256];
sprintf_s(pszStr, 256, "%d days, %d hours, %d minutes and %d seconds", nDays, nHours, nMinutes, nSeconds);

MessageBox(NULL, pszStr, "UpTime 1.0 by NeoEGM <http://www.neoegm.com/software/uptime/>", MB_ICONINFORMATION);

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Guitar Trainer

Guitar Trainer is a program I’ve written to make easier the learning of the position of the different notes in the guitar fretboard. There are lots of features pending to be implemented (including sound, different scales, guessing game by position and by sound, etc.), but it’s quite useful with its current functionality.

GuitarTrainer_FullFretboard

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