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Admin’s Arsenal: BareTail.exe
As someone that works with Linux systems on a daily basis I have sort of a love/hate relationship with tail.exe (it can be frustrating trying to get it to display exactly what I want, though piping out...
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Admin’s Arsenal: BareGrep.exe
Ok, here is the situation: you’ve got 1200 script files in a particular directory on your XP workstation, and you need to find any script that references “\\atl01\share” (queue Dennis Hopper voice),...
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Admin’s Arsenal (personal edition): Songbird
I wasn’t exactly sure how to categorize this post, but I feel that it rightly belongs in the Admin’s Arsenal. Even the most nose to the grindstone SysAdmin needs some tunes. I have something playing in...
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Banish Windows Notepad: Replacing Notepad with Notepad++
It’s no secret around these parts that I hate Windows Notepad. It hasn’t been updated (in any useful way) since Windows 95, and is just plain inadequate for most tasks I need a text editor for. Up to...
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Digital Locksmith: Change the root password on OSX; several methods
I’m not a big fan of Macs. If I wanted to run BSD I would. If I want the easy GUI I’ll run Windows. If I want the elitist snob crowd, I’ll run Gentoo Linux (kidding, step away from the door and please...
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Kung Fu for SysAdmins: Windows 7 made easy
Back when I was in IT trade school I was taught a really valuable lesson in how to make your life a bit easier as an administrator; one of my instructors walked up to my computer, unplugged my mouse,...
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Admin’s Arsenal: Launch a script with an email, from your cell phone.
“With great power comes great responsibility.” Call me a bit of a geek, but when Uncle Ben said that to Peter Parker in Spiderman (2002), it sent a chill down my spine. Not because this was the first...
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PowerShell Function: Invoke-Sound
##-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## FUNCTION.......: Invoke-Sound ## PURPOSE........: Beep the system speaker. ## REQUIREMENTS...:...
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PowerShell Function: Find-Hotfix
Every now and then you’ll need to verify whether or not a given hotfix is installed on a particulat computer (or group of computers). This function takes all the work out of that task....
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Admin’s Arsenal: iPhone Configuration Utility
I got an iPhone in 2009. I like it, it does what I need it to do. I’m not with the fanboi crowd that thinks that Steve Jobs was a saint, and the iPhone is the holy grail of cell phones. The thing has...
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