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 actually execute them) so that you can create a library of common scripts or share them with your colleagues. And most importantly, Robocopy GUI allows you to save your default settings so you don’t have to start from scratch every time.

You can download it here.

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: is you can replace with the drive you want to exclude from checking)

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!)

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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, ‘I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.’

After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob, after a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves.

The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs.

When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, ‘Who was that?’

‘It was Bob the next door neighbor,’ she replies.

‘Great,’ the husband says, ‘did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?’

Moral of the story:

If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.

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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 regarding RDP and multi-monitor setup.

 If you ever testify in court, you might wish you could have been as sharp as this policeman. He was being cross-examined by a defense attorney during a felony trial. The lawyer was trying to undermine the police man’s credibility…  

Q: "Officer — did you see my client fleeing the scene?"
A: "No sir. But I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender, running several blocks away."
Q: "Officer — who provided this description?"
A: "The officer who responded to the scene."
Q: "A fellow officer provided the description of this so-called offender. Do you trust your fellow officers?"
A: "Yes, sir. With my life."
Q: "With your life? Let me ask you this then officer. Do you have a room where you change your clothes in preparation for your daily duties?"
A: "Yes sir, we do!"
Q: "And do you have a locker in the room?"
A: "Yes sir, I do."
Q: "And do you have a lock on your locker?"
A: "Yes sir."
Q: "Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers with your life, you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with these same officers?"
A: "You see, sir — we share the building with the court complex, and sometimes lawyers have been known to walk through that room."