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Allrite, so I bought this LaCie Ethernet Disk mini 300GB to have as backup unit and to store some of the kids movies and some music. The damn thing however came delivered with fat32 filesystem (max file size=4gb but just 2gb over network + other shortcoming of fat32)

Now there was the option to format the thing with EXT3 file system; however that EXT3 thing would certainly not be readable from USB cable connection from my Windows thingies. Enter Ext2 (ext3 too!) driver for Windows and all is great again

Complete reading and writing access to files and directories of volumes with the Ext2 or Ext3 file system.
Supports features which are specific to the I/O-system of Windows: Byte Range Locks, Directory Notfication (so the Explorer updates the view of a directory on changes within that directory), Oplocks (so SMB clients are able to cache the content of files).
Allows Windows to run with paging files on Ext2 volumes.

Read more and download here
Backup copy here (v. 1.11a //090102)

So you want to use Firefox, but you’re going ballistic when you can’t manage Firefox through GPO?
Well, enter FirefoxADM…

FirefoxADM is an open-source project dedicated to the goal of being able to manage large numbers of Firefox installations on a network using the Windows Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPOs)

Read more and download here

GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies.

Download an entire site
wget -m -p -k robots=off http://www.somesite.foo.com

This will commmand will do the stuff, and -m and -p will grab all images, CSS, etc. robots=off ignores a sites robots.txt file If you add the -k flag, wget will convert all absolute links into relative links.

Donwload a part of a site
wget -m -k -np http://www.somesite.foo.com/images

The -np (no parent) options means that wget won’t travel “above” /images in the hierarchy

Check here for additional versions
Backup copy here  (1.10.2 //090102)

Stumpled over some really nice looking icons over at this site

 
When you’re running published applications on MetaFrame then you’ve might have encountered the problem that child processes (and sometimes even the main executable) will be left running.

Read more here or check the solution below:

NOTE:
Enter the list of executable names with a comma and NO spaces between them, for example:
App1.exe,app2.exe,app3.exe

//Edit (090102):  Tim Mangan also have a nice tool called LaunchIt 
Read more here
Backup copy here

I don’t know. Maybe it’s cool, maybe not.

Lansweeper is a powerful freeware solution without any embedded ads to make a complete software, hardware, asset inventory of your windows network.
No need to install a client on your workstations, all scanning is done through the use of WMI, fileshares and remote registry access.

You can use lansweeper with unlimited clients (no restrictions)
One lansweeper service can handle over 10.000 clients (depending on your server specifications)

Read more and download here
Check out live demo of the web interface here

This is kinda old skool…
But, somehow, even in this modern age there’s the occational need to boot up on a 1.44 floppy to access network the way our forfathers used to do it….

The Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk is a DOS bootdisk that provides TCP/IP networking support. It’s designed for use in Microsoft networking environments, on either peer-to-peer or domain based LANs. Currently 94 different network card drivers all included, all on the single 1.44MB disk!

Read more and download here
Backup copy here (v. 6.2 //090102)

Regshot is an open-source(GPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one – done after doing system changes or installing a new software product.

Read more and download here
Backup copy here (v 1.8.2 //090102)

Lately I’ve been patching up a lot of servers with quite a few hotfixes. Well, after a while I got bored with the KB 296861 way of installing multiple hotfixes.
By the way QChain is not used anymore…

Anyways here’s my simple script. Just put the all the hotfixes in a single folder and copy/paste the code below to a CMD file such as InstallHF.cmd and doubleclick – presto!

In a recent project I needed to execute some stuff at logon with administrative privileges. Certainly there were quite a few commercial alternatives, but from my research they all used the CreateProcessAsUser API with various fancy user interfaces.

The tool I chose to use was the freeware CPAU.
Please note. Using a tool such as CPAU or the commercial alternatives produces a security risk as even though the password might be encrypted in whatever fashion it still passes the password in clear text to CreateProcessAsUser. That, however was a risk I was willing to take under the circumstances..

CPAU
Command line tool for starting process in alternate security context. Basically this is a runas replacement. Also allows you to create job files and encode the id, password, and command line in a file so it can be used by normal users.

Read more and download here