IT Dribble

Had an interesting scenario at a clients yesterday. After a recent upgrade of their infrastructure of Blackberry Enterprise Server to Service Pack 2 MR 2 they couldn’t sign into the BES Console with both Active Directory credentials or local BES accounts. It seems that they had two compounding issues Read the rest of this entry »

Its a small file and a big download if you want to get it from Microsoft, So I’ll host it here until M$ tell me to stop. Download Devcon.exe 32bit Windows 7 Version

I’m always losing the Windows Scripting Host Reference section. So here is my bookmark

Here is a great list of tools for troubleshooting Citrix Issues: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX107572

awk ‘/:/ {name=$1} ; /lastu/ {print name $3}’ /input/filename

So I was having a hunt around for the modified version of Netcat which is called Ncat developed by the lovely people who wrote the infamous port scanner Nmap. I needed the Win32 binaries for it and after a brief internet trowel it couldn’t be found. So I downloaded the source and compiled it and made it presentable for download for everyone else. Version 1 – Packed with UPX Packer. Version 2 – Not Packed. Happy Ncatting

Here is a VB script which is useful for migrating users from one print server to another. This needs to be run on each workstation (I usually call it from a login script). No credit taken for the script and I can’t remember where I got it from (Sorry)
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I was using Windows based SSH box the other day and I needed to get some files, but the only options on a limited Windows (XP) box are ftp and the files I wanted were on HTTP so I hunted around and added to a vbscript which created a Wget type script which works via VBScript (which is avaliable on a limited XP Box)
Something else which is good about this script is that it uses Internet Explorer Proxy settings automatically, so if you are behind a corporate firewall and need to go through a proxy it does this automatically for you!

' VBScript based WGET - Changes by Cam McKenzie
' cam.mckenzie --at-- gmail --dot-- com
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It seems that John the Ripper (JtR) has been out done with some of the latest hashing cracking software in the business! Hashcat and oclHashcat (hashcat.net) is forging ahead with over 33 and 13 hash types respectivley which are able to be cracked. Did I mention oclHashcat uses the GPU of CUDA based video cards for seriously parallel processing? Well it does.

Its seems that Google have changed some of their code for maps website and users are experienicing a dialogue box popup with the message:
Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en
Operation aborted

It seem the solution is to install Microsoft’s MS10-071: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer (KB2360131)