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Tool: Ping Plot

October 10, 2024 1 min read

I wrote a small .NET tool that will plot ping responses visually. It also allows me to save the chart graph as an image and also export the…

Tool: Check CBS Corruption

October 8, 2024 2 min read

I hacked together a small tool in .NET that helps me quickly analyze the Component Based Servicing (CBS) log in c:\windows\logs\cbs\cbs.log for missing CSI Payloads. It will parse the log…

Recover media files from iMazing backup

June 17, 2024 3 min read

Awhile back I used a piece of software (iMazing) to backup an old iPhone of mine. The raw backup when extracted is a bunch of files without extensions…

Cacti Dell R750 iDRAC Temperature

June 12, 2023 1 min read

I've setup a template to monitor a Dell R750 server via configured SNMP access on iDRAC. My server has only two CPU (Intel Xeon Gold 6338N). I did…

A Port Scanner in C

June 9, 2023 5 min read

The following port scanner C code checks approximately 65535 ports in about 15 seconds on-network. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <netinet/in.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <arpa/inet.h> #include…

A BOFH Generator in C

June 9, 2023 1 min read

// gcc bofh.c -o bofh #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> #define NUM_QUOTES 10 const char* bofh_quotes[NUM_QUOTES] = { "No, my powers can only be used for good.",…

Writing a portscan utility in .NET

January 30, 2023 1 min read

I’m working on a side project that is a portscan utility written in VB.net. Here’s my progress so far, and it is working. There’s some way to go…

WP-BOFH

April 11, 2022 1 min read

A small WordPress plugin to create a BOFH excuse using a shortcode anywhere on your WordPress website shortcodes are supported. Usage [[bofh]] Output Example [bofh] wp-bofhDownload Continue reading

Pennsylvania COVID-19 Data Scraping with Python

March 29, 2020 2 min read

Over the last few weeks I've been using Python to scrape the Pennsylvania Department of Health's Coronavirus page. Over time the page has evolved and even split into…

Allscripts Vision User Reporting

August 2, 2018 2 min read

A quick Powershell script I hacked together that will enumerate all Active Directory users, and build an XML file for an application I wrote that generates user reports…

Raid and IOPs Cheat Sheet – Excel

January 13, 2017 1 min read

I made this 5 years ago in Excel and it was pretty popular. I think there are some errors in the math formulas that were pointed out for…

Calculator

January 13, 2017 1 min read

I mean, who hasn’t written a calculator application? Not much explaining to do here…

TheWatcher

January 13, 2017 1 min read

An excercise in FileSystemWatcher in .NET that was used to create an application to monitor a given folder (and subfolders) for specific file/folder operations such as Creation, Deletion,…

Allscripts ProEHR User Account Unlock

January 13, 2017 1 min read

A utility I wrote to show locked user accounts in the Allscripts Professional EHR database and allow the user to unlock selected accounts.