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.
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 »
This is a basic example of how to download the html of a web page with Visual Basic 6, using no ActiveX controls, and only Windows API calls.
Now that I’ve gathered a good-sized database of malicious IP addresses, I thought I would dust off my keyboard and build a service for checking IP addresses for “badness”.
Way back in the days of yore, about thirteen years ago, I decided I needed a central repository for all my random bits of code. Not having the dollars at the time, I decided to build my own code repository.