4th January 2001
Coming from the "I Command Thee" Department, Lockergnomie Brian Bartlett lets us in on a not-so-gooey utility for Windows NT/2k. When you need something done, you needed it done yesterday. That's just the way it is in a world dependent on instant gratification. The Task Scheduler is pretty fancy -- especially when compared to a command prompt. But there's beauty in that blandness! Do you know where it's AT? No, you see... that's the program (AT.EXE). "The AT command schedules commands and programs to run on a computer at a specified time and date." And for networked Gnomies, there's a switch for working with remote computers. Granted, there's no "GUI," but since when has that been a necessity for powerful tools? For those of you new to this operating system, understand that there are two ways to drop to a CLI; CMD.EXE is much more efficient (and faster) than the familiar COMMAND.COM. It's kinda like two turntables and a microphone (where it's AT).