January 4, 2012
One of the things that I find myself doing much more often since diving into IT is monitoring and checking the status of services running on computers that are running across the company. There is the standard way of managing services which most people use because it’s well-known and fairly easy. But what about another way?
December 2, 2011
Sometimes, the fastest way to accomplish a task such as sorting files or editing text documents is to use quick command line tools. there is a really cool tool called Swiss File Knife (sfk), which extends the sort of scripting set we’ve all become accustomed to.
November 25, 2011
Growing a blog takes years, and a whole lot of pain and struggle. Then there are the major transitions, when you realize that you have to make some major changes, and it’s going to take a whole lot of work. There are a number of major changes I’ve had to make on my own blog, but one of the most difficult was that I had used a certain manual method to insert Google ads into my blog articles.
October 29, 2011
Browse an assortment of amazingly useful commands. Whether you’re an veteran system admin or a command-line neophyte striving to discover more, CommandLineFu is a vote-driven collection of commands that serves up thousands of ideas you should have thought of but didn’t. Some see the command line as Linux’s weak point, the ultimate symbol of a system lacking ease of use.
October 13, 2011
Writing batch jobs and more recently Windows scripts is an activity that really makes up the bulk of how the large majority of network and system administrators do their jobs faster, and simplify what would otherwise be time-consuming, complex tasks. Using batch jobs, you can automate installing and uninstalling applications and a multitude of other queries and jobs.
August 5, 2011
Some time ago I wrote about an alternative console client for Windows called Console. These was a fairly lively discussion in the comments, so I figured I’d share another interesting console client I found; this one is called ColorConsole, and it’s tiny, portable and free. The premise is quite similar to Console.
July 21, 2011
When it comes to the command line, it seems that Linux and Mac OS users get all the fun. They have fantastic shell environments, but more importantly, they have a very slick console application to access their text shells. But for Windows users, in sweeps Console, ready to save the day with its awesome-sauce and open-source chic.
July 11, 2011
There is a ton of information on the Internet about various Terminal commands and ways to customise your Mac or Linux machine with the Terminal. Here are some commands which are really useful and can benefit you if you learn them. Check out these 5 useful commands.
July 8, 2011
These days, screenshot applications are a dime a dozen, and you can do image editing offline, online and even on your phone. So what’s a new way that you can make use of image editing or screenshot tools that goes beyond just opening up an app and editing images? What if you could integrate image editing directly into your batch jobs or Windows scripts?
May 4, 2011
Windows 7 still features a command prompt window. so there’s still a place for DOS commands. So for those of you that like the idea of typing in a few commands to avoid the hassle of several mouse clicks, I’m going to review eight of what I consider to be the most essential and helpful DOS commands that are still available in Windows 7.
