Thursday, May 31, 2012

About Amazon

Amazon, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, Washington, is the global leader in e-commerce.
Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1995.
Amazon has revolutionised online shopping experience.
Amozon is customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
Amazon also has a "cloud" reader to allow users to read, and purchase, Kindle books from a web browser.
The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-book readers. Amazon Kindle eReaders enable users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other digital media via wireless networking.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Command to shut down remote computer

The shutdown command has a few options called switches. You can always see them by typing shutdown -? in the command prompt if you forget any of them.

-i: Display GUI interface, must be the first option
-l: Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-s: Shutdown the computer
-r: Shutdown and restart the computer
-a: Abort a system shutdown
-m \\computername: Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
-t xx: Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c “comment”: Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f: Forces running applications to close without warning
-d [u][p]:xx:yy: The reason code for the shutdown u is the user code p is a planned shutdown code xx is the major reason code (positive integer less than 256) yy is the minor reason code (positive integer less than 65536)