Monad Dir Highlighting

I'm currently experimenting with the new microsoft shell monad. I always liked the directory en executable highlighting in the linux shell, so I just build a quick script to highlight the directories in an ls query.

$colItems = dir
foreach ($objItem in $colItems)
{
if ($objItem.MshIsContainer )
{ write-host $objItem.Name -foregroundcolor "Blue"}
elseif ( ($objItem.Extension -eq ".exe") -or ($objItem.Extension -eq ".msh") )
{ write-host $objItem.Name -foregroundcolor "Green" }
else
{write-host $objItem.Name}
}

Update linux distro

Installed some more packages:
* yum install yumex
* yum install alacarte
* yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3
* rpm -ihv http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc3/RPMS.newrpms/xmms-status-plugin-1.0-2.rhfc3.nr.i386.rpm
* yum install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts

Remove Monad for .net 2.0 beta

I installed a beta for monad, the new Microsoft Shell, that needed the asp.net 2.0 beta. But after going live for Visual Studio, I couldn't remove monad, and it didn't run either because the .net beta wasn't available.

How to correct this problem? I figured this out:

So I deleted the Monad folders by hand and all the registry settings, and it worked :D

Basic Date Picker

Working on a couple of different .net web applications, i needed a good date picker. But since time is more a problem, i was looking for a good pre-build one. I think i found one:

See www.basicdatepicker.com...

Folder Size for Windows Explorer

it looks like you never have to right click on a folder to learn its size. With this little explorer extension, you've directly the size of the folder.

Program at foldersize.sourceforge....