So, I had this server where I enabled Shadow Copy on the D: volume, and I could create snapshots just fine however the scheduled shadow copy jobs never ran. If I looked in “Control Panel”, “Scheduled Tasks” I could see that the job had never run, and if I tried to edit the schedule I […]
So you need to fiddle a bit with Windows Update, the reasons can be many; you want to centrally initiate an update you are paranoid and want to script a daily/weekly or monthly Windows Update (in case the automatic detection fail). Well, for help on how to launch it on different remote machines I suggest you visit […]
Now this seem fairly cool, a utility that will allow you to monitor running applications, take action upon conditions met and give you great statistics. All in all it looks promising enough. I will hopefully be giving it a spinn shortly. Get it here; http://www.drinkprog.com/kiwi/ And yes sure enough, nothing super good is free and […]
So if you have a PHP driven web hotel and want to create a simple browsing system for your files there (lets say you got a directory with subfolders and files etc that users need to browse around in), well take a look at TotalIndex it looks simple enough and furthermore its free 😀 nice..
This post (see below) was taken from Scott’s blog and works for Vista/2003/2008, I am yet to find the cool solution for XP. This problem has nagged at me for years. Here is a batch command to delete files on a Windows 2003 machine. Forfiles -p c:ackup -s -m *.* -d -5 -c “cmd /c […]
You may recall me mentioning Virus Total, this is a priceless service that allow you to upload a file and have it checked by many different antivirus engines within seconds. Excellent if you are suspicious about a file, or just if you want to be sure that the file you just downloaded is clean. Well […]
Just stumbled over this tool, it seem to be very practical (sure its not rocket science, but its easy and convenient) 😉 Now you can customize the context menus of Windows Explorer to add your own functionality and not only is it easy, its free as well 😀 http://www.lopesoft.com/en/index.html .
So you are a network administrator and are concerned about Skype (supernodes and all), well take a swing around https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/SkypeConfiguration here you will find links to some very interesting Skype disections and tips on how to prevent becomming a supernode. Be sure to read the text from Blackhat 2006; https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf
Just a quick reminder to myself (and other interested), if you need to sign up for something (eg. you have to provide a valid email to recieve a download link, etc etc), then I have been using; www.mailexpire.com and this service seem to do a fairly good job. It work like this; Connect to www.mailexpire.com […]
Bit of an oldie here, and still untested with newer GSM Phones, however should you want to have SMS capability in your organization this may be a cheap way to go. It requires a compatible phone (and cable) and then you can fire off scripts (or commandlines) to send sms messages. Seem easy enough, but […]