Gizmodo has an exclusive video and feature of one of the most heavily guarded secrets in Lego: the security vault where they store all the Lego sets ever created, new in their boxes. 4,720 sets from 1953 to 2008. Really amazing stuff and a trip down memory lane to every person who has played with […]

Robocopy GUI also extends the functionality of the existing Robocopy tool in some very interesting ways. For example, this tool is multithreaded, allowing you to create a Robocopy script, execute it, and begin creating another one while your first script is still running. It also allows you to save your scripts (even if you don’t […]

I am sure many of you have had a drive, especially a very large one, that you did not want to have chkdsk run on when restarting a server. If so you can use the command below to disable it from occurring at boot up on a per drive basis. chkntfs /x c: (where c: […]

Sometimes we may want to remove a few unwanted items from “New” menu or we may want to add a few necessary items to “New” menu which are not present. So here is how you can add / remove items to / from “New” menu (Thanks to AskVG.com for this info!) :

Stefan Grothkopp has come up with a pretty neat tool called goosh. It’s essentially a browser-oriented, shell-like interface that allows you to quickly search Google (and images and news) and Wikipedia and get information in a text-only format. It works very well and I must say it’s nice to do command line searching.

Ready? Let’s begin……   Lesson 1: A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor. Before she says a word, Bob says, […]

Here is a link to a great article that gives a little more insight into how Google operates it’s data centers. I would so LOVE to see one of the data centers in action.

Try running Driftnet on a machine in public view and list the IP addresses of the hosts. Inspired by EtherPEG, Driftnet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes. Fun to run on a host which sees lots of web traffic. You can get it here!

Keeping with some of the AD commands I have added recently I have a couple more for ya. You can use rsop.msc (Resultant Set Of Policy) or GPresult to find out what policies are actually applied to the machine you are on.

With the new Terminal Services client version 6 you can use multiple monitors but it doesn’t handle it very well. This is where a great utility called Splitview comes in. It supports multiple monitors as well as wide-screens with remote desktop. Give it a try! Update – Here is a link to the Microsoft Technet site […]