What is Wardriving ?

Imagine a car equipped with nothing more than a laptop computer, a portable GPS receiver, and a wireless network card slowly rolls through your neighborhood. Unknown to any onlookers, this is no ordinary vehicle; rather, it is a wardriving machine.

10 tips for tech writers

Tech-writing is a tricky business. It’s not a very high profile industry, so there’s not much support around. Follow these 10 quick tips, and you’ll be well on your way to a satisfying tech-writing career.

Hide unneeded Windows Updates

Windows 7 gives the you a lot of control when it comes to choosing which system updates you want to install. A good example of updates you can safely ignore are Language Packs. If you are a native english speaker, why do you want to portugese language pack? Or maybe you are from France, why do you want… Read More »

Who doesn’t love NETDOM?

This command-line tool enables administrators to manage Windows domains and trust relationships from the command line. This tool is very handy for scripted installs, updates, adds/removes, and general info gathering. Command Description Netdom add Adds a workstation or server account to the domain. Netdom computername Manages the primary and alternate names for a computer. This command can safely… Read More »

$70 for a USB stick?

System administrators who have HP blade servers in their environments probably know all about the pain of paying for HP-branded USB sticks for use in their BL490’s.  But why pay $70?

97 Google Searching Tips

Who doesn’t like a good tip for searching Google? There are literally tons of tips and tricks for using this search engine to find just about anything you’re looking for, as well as a few things you weren’t. But let’s say you aren’t quite the geek that some of us other are. Maybe this whole internet thing is… Read More »

Failure to Plan, Plan to Fail

Let’s say that you have a software project that’s under severe time pressure.  Let’s say that this deadline is so tight that you already know it will involve many late nights of black coffee and frenetic programming.  What can you do to make this process go faster?