In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, Demeter is the goddess of the harvest. This code sample demonstrates how to harvest the headers and html code of a web site via VB6. The code presented here shows how to download the header information and html code from a web site, and save that data to text file. In… Read More »
Part of the job of a system administrator is to define root cause for a problem or outage this is happening. This site has an excuse generator, but you’d normally have to open the page to view the excuses. Not anymore!
This is a simple but useful command line utility for determining the uptime of the local computer.
Using virtual machines to test things has become almost a second nature exercise for some folks. Here’s a method to deploy a duplicate of a Hyper-V virtual machine in less than ten seconds with PowerShell.
I’ve been called graybeard. Old timer. Fossil. Dad. Grandpa. Geezer. I’ve been working in the technology field for over thirty years, so all these descriptors are probably fitting. If you’re not sure you’re an IT old timer, here is a description, and a few definitions for you young people.
I’ve put together a few string handling functions in a module that I’ve found useful over of the years, and thought I would share them here so that others might find them useful. Attached to this post is a zip file containing the module, which you simple have to extract and attach to your VB6 project. Below is… Read More »
Here’s a simple little script that will track which computers are offline, and how long they have been offline. It even sends you a handy email summary.
In today’s digital age, protecting your computer and personal information is not just wise but essential. Cyber threats such as malware, ransomware, phishing scams, and identity theft are on the rise, making it more crucial than ever to be vigilant. This guide will outline key steps to ensure your digital safety.
Recently, there was a request for our team to implement a new security requirement for workstations. Specifically, If a user remains logged in, but is idle for a specific period of time, that user should be logged out. After consulting the interwebs for a few minutes, all I could find were hacky solutions using vbscript, PowerShell, task scheduler,… Read More »
I was recently given a small programming challenge by a friend, which entailed splitting a text file into multiple text files, based on word length. I got run time down to 11 seconds. Can you do better? The text file in question is a listing of dictionary words, A through Z, containing a total of 234,936 words. The… Read More »