Cisco ASA Debug a Specific VPN Tunnel
Just a quick note to myself on debugging VPN connectivity; you can specify a peer, user, etc. as a condition to the crypto debug. Here’s how I did…
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Convert PDF to TIFF Using Ghostscript Command Line
I'm starting to research for a project I'll be working on involving PDF and TIFF multi-page documents and conversions. Here's a commandline to convert a PDF to a…
Allow Pings to Windows XP using netsh
Here’s a quick note on allowing Pings (ICMP Echo Response) to your Windows XP from command line. You must be administrator. netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable Quite…
Windows tree Command Example
A quite often forgotten Windows command, tree, is useful when documenting and looking at a folder layout. What is Tree? Graphically displays the folder structure of a drive…
Windows 8 Installation Screenshots (Developer Preview)
This gallery is of Windows 8 Develop Preview installation (in a virtual machine).
Linux Permissions Primer
You may ask yourself when on your own Linux system or come across a blog what linux rw rw r means? The following primer can help you answer…
What is VDI?
Virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI is a computing model that adds a layer of virtualization between the server and the desktop PCs. VMware describes Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)…
Batch Rename Files and/or Folders in Windows Command Line
Batch rename files using Windows command line. for /d /r %x in ("*") do pushd "%x" && ren *.eml *.msg && popd Recently restored about 18k emails in…
Few notes on vim diff
Start up diff: vimdiff or vim -d (requires full install not vim-tiny) If you load up two files in splits (:vs or :sp), you can do :diffthis on…
BIND DNS Security Hole Workaround
There has been a recent discovery that affects BIND DNS servers. A nameserver can be locked up if it can be induced to load a specially crafted combination…
Wallpaper Location in Windows 7
This drove me nuts for a few minutes trying to find the location of the Windows 7 wallpaper as I was trying to migrate a profile to a…
Transparent Command, Putty, Powershell and PuTTY Windows
I modified the code from NothinButNet's Glass project on CodePlex to run continuously and monitor for the following windows: PuTTY (putty.exe) Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe) Powershell (powershell.exe) Telnet…
Install Just VHDMount Tools from Microsoft
I decided to take a backup of a system I had made in Acronis and convert it to a Microsoft VirtualPC VHD. I then wanted to explore this…
Powershell Active Directory Searcher Boiler Plate
I'm sure I'll be using this more and more in the coming months as I familiarize myself with Powershell. Below is a template or boilerplate for Active Directory…
How to Extract User Objects from Active Directory in Powershell
This is a podcast from David Hoezler’s YouTube channel that reviews User Object extraction via Powershell.