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Use SkyDrive to fetch a PC’s files

I just found out a very cool feature of SkyDrive in Windows Live Essentials 2012. You can use it to connect to your PC remotely and fetch files in it…

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August 27, 2012
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Finding driver information on a Windows Server core

I found it very hard to find the version of drivers on a server core machine (the one without a GUI). Here is a nice PowerShell script which will show…

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February 27, 2014
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Carpet replacement

Today, the carpet guys are here. They are replacing the carpet in our motorhome.

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March 13, 2012
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    vi says it does not know what kind of terminal…

    October 25, 2012 /

    Ok so I got this error when I ran vi on a Solaris box while booted off a CD ROM I don’t know what kind of terminal you are on – all I have is ‘unknown’. Solution: run these two commands: TERM=vt100export TERM Note: Running this command did NOT work: export TERM=vt100

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    Recover Forgotten Weblogic Passwords

    September 19, 2012 /

    Nice utility. However it needs Chrome/FF to work. Recover Forgotten Weblogic Admin Password

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    Weblogic Server "invalid pad byte" error

    September 19, 2012 /

      Here is how to encrypt a password/username for weblogic’s boot.properties or config.xml file java -cp /opt/app/bea/weblogic81/server/lib/weblogic.jar -Dweblogic.RootDirectory=/opt/app/bea/user_projects/domains/mydomain3 weblogic.security.Encrypt test_password I got it from: Anything simple: Oracle BEA Weblogic Server 10 “invalid pad byte” error

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    Setting a static IP using powershell

    September 4, 2012 /

    Here is a quick way to set your IP address to a static value: $NICs = Get-WMIObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -computername . | where{$_.IPEnabled -eq $true -and $_.DHCPEnabled -eq $true} Foreach($NIC in $NICs) {     $ip = "10.0.0.151"     $gateway = "10.0.0.1"     $subnet = "255.255.255.0"     $dns = "10.0.0.10","10.0.0.11"     $NIC.EnableStatic($ip, $subnet)     $NIC.SetGateways($gateway)     $NIC.SetDNSServerSearchOrder($dns)     $NIC.SetDynamicDNSRegistration("FALSE") } IPConfig /all Credits: Original script taken from here

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    Set Dynamic IP address using powershell

    September 3, 2012 /

    Here is a quick powershell script to set your network card TCP/IP setting to dynamic addressing: $NICs = Get-WMIObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration | where{$_.IPEnabled -eq “TRUE”} Foreach($NIC in $NICs) { $NIC.EnableDHCP() $NIC.SetDNSServerSearchOrder() } IPConfig /all   Credits: Original script taken from here

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