Atlanta .NET Regular Guys

Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - Posts

• Censorship in action

  ***!  ***!  ***!  ***!That's what I get when I type in $h1t!, Fu©k!, A$$hol3!, and S©hmu©k!I find it funny that Community Server imposes this level of censorship.  I'm sure there is some way to turn that off.  I don't really care.   Read More posted 01-02-2006 03:55 by Matt Ranlett | 5 Comments Filed Under: General

• Automated text editing with Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel

  Let's say that you have a script that does a task, say for example a script to create an account in Active Directory.  That script would look like this:Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://OU=myOrganizationalUnit,dc=MyDomain,dc=com")Set objUser = objOU.Create("User", Read More posted 01-02-2006 11:15 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: General, Programming, Microsoft Products

• Wondering who's doing what with your machine's network access?

  Try this out.  Open a command window and type in "netstat -abno".  You'll get a list of active network ports on your machine and what programs are using them.  You'll see the connection type (TCP/UDP), the Local IP Address:port number connected Read More posted 01-02-2006 08:32 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: General, Programming

• Disaster Recovery - moving databases

  If you're in an emergency situation and you need to move some databases from one SQL Server host to another, one of the myriad problems you'll face is how to preserve the login IDs associated with the databases so that your applications don't Read More posted 01-02-2006 08:03 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: General, Programming