An new WordPress magazine style theme have been released. It is called Comfy, and even you have to pay for this theme I belive it is worth money. I have never promoted any of the non open source software or WordPress themes but this one is really professional looking theme with potentials for all developers out there who want to take this theme to even higher level.
http://deluxethemes.com/
Complete Management via Control Panel
Comfy theme is bundled with a built-in control panel to control many aspects of the theme. You can setup advertisements, …
Here is nice online store that will lett you design your own clothing, mug, hat, bag, etc. They print and send to your address.
A few people have told me that they were not able to run Windows Update after they got WinXP SP3 on their machine…
In my work I often need to know who is logged onto remote PC, and there are many ways to find that out in Enterprise networks, but my favorite way is to run simple VB Script…
Microsoft did not include any export utility with ADUC, so I wrote my own HTA Application.
If your PC is behind firewall that is stopping access to certain sites, then here is a small Java application that can help you bypass that firewall.
Toonel.net exploits a tunneling technique combined with data compression. It runs compressed data frames from toonel client to one of the toonel servers and then these are forwarded to the target host. Reducing the size of resources that are transferred between the server and the client makes more efficient use of the user’s bandwidth.
Download client form here: http://www.toonel.net/downloads.html
Most likely you’re familiar with the Win32Shutdown method found in the WMI class Win32_OperatingSystem; that method allows you to shutdown or reboot a computer, or log off the current user, but it will not let you lock workstation.
So in order to workaround this issue we simply use Rundll32.exe to call the LockWorkStation method of user32.dll:
'
'===================================
' Lock Local Workstation Script
'===================================
'
'============ Script Start ================
On Error Resume Next
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") objShell.Run _
"%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation"
'============ Script End =================
'
This works great for the local computer, but doesn’t do you much good if …
SetACL is a set of routines for managing Windows permissions (ACLs) from the command line, from scripts and from programs. These routines can be used from various container or interface programs. Currently there exist a command line version to be used in batch files or scripts and an ActiveX control (SetACL.ocx) which can be used from any COM-enabled language (VB, WSH scripts, …).
http://setacl.sourceforge.net/index.html
Doing some housekeeping on user volumes is a must in any larger organization.
In order to get ridd of any folders that no longer have assosicated user account in Active Directory, may be time consuming if you have a large number of user accounts in your organization.
Here is nice way to clean out your user volumes for not found users in Acitve Directory.
Process could be automated much more then I do, but I like to splits things up so I have greater control and can roll back if needed.
First we need …
This script will query Active Directory OU and generate result file with Full name, Username and Home folder values for every user found in specified OU.
Script can easily be extended to output any values from user objects
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' Create file with Full Name, Username and
' Home folder by quering Active Directory OU
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Option Explicit
'—————————————–
' Constants
'—————————————–
Const ForWriting = 2
Const TristateUseDefault = -2
'—————————————–
' Variables
'—————————————–
Dim rootDSE, domainObject, domainContainer
Dim objFSO, objShell
Dim ResultsFile, Results
'—————————————–
' Set deafult container to search trough
' Since I have many OU's I do not want to
' list users from whole domain but rather
' …
