Here is a list of good writeups, by a couple awesome security experts, Troy Hunt & Scott Helme, about https, SSL, HSTS, encryption, DV, EV, OV, and anything related to that matter. Life is about to get a whole lot harder for websites without HTTPS – Troy Hunt It’s taken us a while, but finally we’re getting to a “secure […]
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Database Note Taker is a free note-taking app made specifically for SQL databases. It makes a database schema and structures a lot easier to capture and document, and definitely simplifies the database documentation and takes the guesswork out of everyday development with databases. How does it work? More specifically, Connect to your database. Refresh with the current structure of your database. […]
I could solve one side of a Rubik’s cube, or even two when I was like 10 years old and always thought that it’s the way to solve a Rubik’s cube, side-by-side. Guess what? I was completely wrong. By eventually solving it lately with my kids, I realized that it’s rather a layer-by-layer game using a technique called CFOP (Cross-F2L-OLL-PLL) […]
I have a Remote Desktop Services running on Windows Server 2012. Users who have the access to that server have the roaming profile set up but every time when they log off a warning message displays on the screen saying that: Your roaming user profile was not completely synchronized. See the event log for details or contact administrator. By checking […]
There are no built-in cmdlets in PowerShell designed for managing FTP but you can easily download and install a free module to fill the gap if ever needed. Posh-SSH is a PowerShell 3.0 or newer module for automating tasks against systems using the SSH protocol. The module supports only a subset of the capabilities that the different SSH RFCs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell […]
I have a batch job scheduled to run every night that could take several hours to finish. It’s just a simple data copy job with a set of robocopy commands but I have no way of knowing how it went during the night. It would be nice if the job can notify me the status of the job in an […]
Since Windows Server 2016 Insider Build is free with full licenses, why not using it? But it’s only available in Server Core, which means I will have to use PowerShell to do all the work. I am setting up one that is the first server in a test environment and I need it to be the AD server as well […]