Tech related posts.
Full AD user list (run on the controller):
dsquery user -name * -limit 0 > output.txt
Admins (or members of any group you specify:
dsget group “CN=Domain Admins,CN=users,DC=domain,dc=com” -members > output.txt
I don’t use these often enough to remember.
I’m an old schooler, and an avid Usenet user since way back when there was actually a reason to break an upload into a billion tiny pieces. I prefer it over every other means of mass filesharing on the intertoobs. The advent of NZB made it even awsumer.
My goal now is to automate the process as much as possible. Unfortunately, thus far there is no all-in-one solution for this. Fortunately, there are great apps made by industrious people to take care of most of it. My current test setup includes the following:
My download path differs from my storage path – I have a separate set of shared drives to hold video. Right now I still have to move the video file to the appropriate drive/path. The last step of my process is to write a bit of code that detects the unpacked video files and move them to their final destination (eg: move the file “futurama.s06e01.dvdscr.xvid-mspaint.avi” from its unpacked location to its proper home at “F:\video\Series\futurama”). This is relatively trivial. I just need to take the time to do it.
So a friend of mine is after an old school Toyota Landcruiser, but he’s finding it difficult as it appears he’s not alone. Any such beast in decent shape seems to sell within 48 hours of being posted online. As such we were discussing ways he could be notified when one is listed for sale. Bam! Google Alerts. Brilliant. Simply set up your search criteria as THINGYOURELOOKINGFOR site:SITEYOURELOOKINGAT, eg:
landcruiser site:atlanta.craigslist.org
or
landcruiser site:ebay.com
Set your notifications up, and you’re ready to rock. If you want to get specific or tricksy about it, check out Google’s advanced search magick.
Given that I have a multitude of laptops I’m test driving Prey.
Prey is a lightweight application that will help you track and find your laptop if it ever gets stolen. It works in all operating systems and not only is it Open Source but also completely free.
Hopefully I’ll never have to use it.
F.lux seems like a great idea. Trying it out now.
I loved the image resize powertoy in XP – here’s a clone for 7!
Interesting – my work machine, a Windows 7 64 bit box, suddenly stopped auto-refreshing the desktop. Delete something off the desktop, and its icon remained until you right clicked and chose Refresh. Save something to the desktop, and it wouldn’t appear until you did the same. A co-worker had the same issue and, after some serious Googling, found the culprit.
Uninstall Teracopy, and viola! Desktop behaves. Too bad, as I love me some Teracopy. I’m currently test driving the alternative SuperCopier, which is uglier than Tera but so far works well and doesn’t fark up the refresh.
In order for Perl to work through a proxy (for Perl Package Manager, etc) you need to define the proxy as a system environment variable:
Right click on “My Computer”, click on “Properties” and select the “Advanced” tab. Click the button marked “Environment Variables” and make the following changes in the “System Variables” window:
- With the “New” button, add the setting HTTP_proxy, with your proxy name as the value (you must include ”
“), followed by a colon and the proxy port, if applicable; e.g., ”
“
- If you require a user name and/or password to access your proxy, use the “New” button to add the settings HTTP_proxy_user and HTTP_proxy_pass, with your user name and password as the respective values.
From the ActivePerl FAQ.
Who knew? Not I.
Forget a MODx/MySql database pass for a client? Me too. Thankfully, it’s easily located at
/manager/includes/config.inc.php
How about WordPress? Me too again. It’s the wp-config.php file in the root.
Speaking of these files, make sure to CHMOD them to 600 for protection.
