After watching a webinar recently where the presenter was using Visual Studio Code to run PowerShell codes he prepared for the demo, it strikes me that maybe it’s time to ditch PowerShell ISE and start using Visual Studio Code for all my coding needs. Setting up VS Code for PowerShell turns out super easy. First, download VS Code from https://code.visualstudio.com […]
On an Active Directory Domain with multiple GPOs in place, it’s nice having a way that can generate reports in various situations. Group Policies applied to my account and computer There is a built-in tool called Resultant Set of Policy (rsop.msc) that scans all active policies and displays them all in a window similar to Group Policy Editor. You will […]
We always use command lines like PING to get the IP address assigned to a specific domain DNS. For example, to get the IP address of google.com, we use: ping google.com As you can see, this only returns one of IP addresses assigned to google.com. To get the full list of IP addresses associated with google.com, you need to use […]
Other than open every single installed printer to print test pages, here is a much better way that you can do it all at once. Get-CimInstance Win32_Printer | Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName PrintTestPage If you only want to certain printers, use the -Filter switch. Get-CimInstance Win32_Printer -Filter “Name LIKE ‘*name*’ | Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName PrintTestPage You can even use Get-Printer cmdlet to pick […]
The backup storage was running low on the server. While I was doing some research on which NAS device would work for my needs out of the box, the concept of SAM-SD pops out as an alternative way of building a reliable storage system at enterprise level. Rather than a terminology or a product widely recognized in tech, it’s a […]
Speaking of using a system that automatically manages your endless passwords for endless places that need them, I’ve been keeping it as simple as I can, simply letting my default browser, which happens to be Google Chrome, take care of it. It’s been simple and straightforward. Credentials saved in Chrome on one computer automatically get synced to other computers and […]
I was trying to restore a database to a MySQL server on a test machine and this error occurred: #1273 – Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci’ The problem is, the server that runs the live database is MySQL 5.7 that supports utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci but the test server I run is only MySQL 5.5 which does not support this specific encoding. By the way, […]
I love paper airplanes but I only know a couple ways to make them, i.e. the basic dart. But, there are actually many ways to make them with different types. And if you are interested, check out Paper Airplane Designs, a database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions. It’s going to be fun going through every single […]