Valkyrie Wireless Equipment
Here’s a gallery of some of the old photos (2004-2008) of Valkyrie Internet Services (Valkyrie Wireless) network and tower equipment I had the privilege of working on. Definitely…
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Set Ambient Temperature Alarm VMware ESX Host
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How to Save Command Output to Clipboard in Windows
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How to Install Active Directory Management Tools on Windows 7
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RAID, IOPS, MBps and more Excel Cheat Sheet
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Backing Up and Restoring PuTTY Sessions and PuTTY Session Management
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Add Local Admin Account using Batch Script
Quick & dirty method to add a local administrator account on a Windows system using a batch file and hiding the login from the login screen in XP……
Batch Script to List Startup Services, Unusual Running Applications and other stuff…
This is useful for me from time to time. Here's a screenshot. Code is below. @echo off color 1f cls : Possible processes that shouldn't be running...…