Monday, January 23, 2012

"He that lieth down with Dogs shall rise up with Fleas" -Benjamin Franklin

 Nice little ethical dilemma  via the MegaUpload issue

  • MegaUpload was primarily hosted in Virginia by a web hosting provider called Carpathia Hosting. Carpathia leased more than 1000 servers with a total of 25 petabytes of storage to MegaUpload.
Source: http://gigaom.com/2012/01/19/megaupload-indictment/

I wonder how the Federal Agencies who host with Carpathia feel about this...


Friday, January 13, 2012

dsquery

 Hey,
This is actually pretty useful.

On a Windows server:
  • dsquery group -name "Domain Admins" | dsget group -members

Returns the members of the domain admin group.

I know, it's a little thing, but very handy.

Almost like somebody is serious about wanting to be a real OS.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Using notepad as a log file - Automatic timestamp on open - Who Knew?

 I am an old school guy.  I like to write text in a plain text editor whenever possible.  It helps me focus on the text, instead of the font, spacing, italicizing, indenting etc. 

I have just enough ADHD that all those bells and whistles always pull me in.

Anyway,
I often use notepad when I am stuck on my corporate machine.  I take nearly all my notes with notepad.

I just stumbled across this little gem (Source)
Notepad can be used to log data manually. This adds the current date and time when you open the particular notepad log file..
Use the following instruction to create a log file:

  1. Open a new Notepad. (Start -> Program -> Accessories -> Notepad)
  2. Type .LOG in the first line and press ENTER.
  3. Save this file in the name of your choice.
  4. Now, whenever you open this file, the current system date and time will be appended to the bottom of the contents in the notepad.
It works REALLY nicely. Give it a try!