Lighter posting this weekend.  I’m cleaning up the back yard for Spring and other assorted house-cleaning chores I’ve been putting off for a while. Michael Pietroforte at his awesome 4sysops blog has one of the best sysadmin sites I just can’t wait to see a new post from. Michael’s skil...

Last major collection of links. Alvis has a TAKS test tomorrow so we are going retro and watching some Azumanga Daioh anime DVD’s to melt our brain cells before heading off to an early bedtime. I’ll try to section it up a bit. Lots of neat finds and worthy candidates for your attention.  Do...

Previously posted in this series: Partition and Disk Management: Part I – Dancing with Diskpart Partition and Disk Management: Part II – Free and Useful Tools  Partition and Disk Management: Part III – Pesky Dell Partitions It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was making this post: Secu...

Sometimes I find myself on a technical issue and end up puzzling it out. The aftermath finds me overwhelmed with linkage.  Sometimes due to the interrelatedness of the issues, I struggle a bit to get it all organized in a logical manner. I’m having to “puntâ€� this time and do another multi...

Alvis and Lavie are watching the Oscars tonight and I’m along for the ride. I wasn’t able to come even close to getting out some of the posting I wanted.  Nothing like a short weekend, a bit of weed-pulling in the yard, and the regular mix of loving on the girls to wear a weekend out. Coupl...

Hang on. This may be a doozie. It will (hopefully) wrap up this project. Summary The purpose of this ongoing project is to build a Win PE 2.0 based boot-disk, that has a great VistaPE GUI interface (instead of the standard CLI shell) and the PGP WDE drivers injected so we can “liveCD-boot� a PGP...

The Valca family is recovering today. Lavie has bloomed again after a three-week battle with a nagging flu.  Alvis is recovering from homework and adjusting to having a TV in her own bedroom. And me? I’m trying to catch up on blog posting, several hours of DVR recordings, and the regular Sund...

Looks like this posting session might stretch into the cold and windy wee hours of the morning. I just can’t help but share! Goodness me. CLI Tips Always on the lookout for arcane but useful CLI tips I found these this past week: Run cmd.exe as Local System in Safe Mode – TinyApps blog. Great ti...

I think I need a bigger lorry for this one. New, Updated, and/or Free Utilities Security Database Tools Watch - FireCAT 1.4 package released – For those who don’t know, FireCAT is a logical collection of security-auditing/pen-testing Add-on extensions for Mozilla Firefox. It is a really amazing ...

Yes, October is behind us and the pumpkins are being ground up for pie. However, I really scored a few awesome finds on the Net this week while I was continuing my hunt for a solution to my PE 2.0/Vista project headaches. Alas, despite a plea for assistance in loading a preferred driver in VistaPE o...