Comcast recently announced that starting in October there would be a hard cap on how much bandwidth its customers could use on a month to month basis. There is currently no way of checking how much bandwidth Comcast thinks you have used. From their FAQ: How does Comcast help its customers track their usage so they can [sic]avoid exceeding the limit? There are many online … [Read more...]
Making Setup.exe into Setup.msi
This post is a little different from the usual how-to or (lite) software review. This is the result of a decent amount of time spent researching the topic of converting Setup.exe (executables) into .MSI files so that they can be easily deployed and managed through Group Policy. Where I'm at currently with this project is that I first tried WinInstall 2003LE and successfully … [Read more...]
View an Object’s Hierarchy in Active Directory
By default when searching the Active Directory, you can find an object easily but the heirarchy is not shown. You can very easily enable this so that you can locate objects and see in which Organization Unit (OU) they exist. With the Active Directory snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console open, go to View and click on Advanced Features so that there is a check mark to … [Read more...]
Make Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat use “Print as Image” setting by default
For certain printers, certain PDF documents, and certain print setups, using the "Print as Image" setting in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader is the only way to reliably get a print job to succeed. To get to this setting, you would go File -> 1. Print -> 2. Advanced (button) -> 3. Print as Image (checkbox) -> 4. Ok -> 5. Ok (PDF prints). This is a rather buried … [Read more...]
Wireshark – Free packet sniffer for Windows
Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer or "packet sniffer" and like all the other programs I show on this blog it's free. A network protocol analyzer has a lot of uses, primarily education and security. You can learn a lot about network traffic and protocols from observing the packets via Wireshark. From looking at the simplest of pings, you can understand how MAC addresses, … [Read more...]