Enterprise Abstraction

CISTI LibX Edition

I've been fooling with library toolsbars, sidebars, web and widgets for awhile now... and a few months back I'd resigned myself to finally getting around to doing a LibX library toolbar for CISTI.  I'd even gotten a mostly-working version done a few months back.  At the end of last week I decided it was time to finish.  Lo and behold, I go to the LibX site and discover the wonder that is the LibX Edition Builder!  Holy moly, it's just wonderful.  Within 15 minutes I had a working toolbar for CISTI.  Of course the details and testing tool a day or so, but I finally think I've gotten a version decent enough to make live and public. 

This version is intended mainly for staff of the National Research Council - CISTI's parent organization - but I imagine it would still be useful for most CISTI patrons.

Check it out, and let me know what you think:

• CISTI LibX Toolbar @ CISTI Lab - Some info from me, and access to the IE version installer.
• CISTI LibX Edition @ LibX - The main edition site on LibX - Firefox only install.

Automatic XP user logoff

I was getting tired of having to logout other users on my XP machine at home using the task manager.  Essentially, my wife and assorted guests occasionally use the computer.  Often they would remain logged in and running several applications.  This caused me some issues with stability, but more often, with the system performance. 

I sought a simple solution that would allow me to logout other users on the system with just a click of an icon, as opposed to the more time consuming effort required by using task manager.  So a made a little batch file called logoutuser.bat for that purpose. 

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@echo off
rem logoutuser.bat

for /F "tokens=2 skip=1" %%G IN ('qwinsta tammy') DO LOGOFF %%G
for /F "tokens=2 skip=1" %%G IN ('qwinsta guest') DO LOGOFF %%G

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qwinsta lists the current system users, I select the most common offenders, and invoke the logoff command providing the users ID as a parameter (as provided by qwinsta).

I'd not found an adequate solution for this issue elsewhere, so I thought I'd just post it.