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Excel Scroll Lock key is stuck- and how to unstuck it

When you find that you try to move your cell selected in Excel with your arrow keys and the spreadsheet scrolls instead of moving position this means you Scroll Lock key is on. Well most modern keyboards do not show the ScrLk key to toggle it off. If you press Win+Ctrl+O this will bring up…

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Windows

Details about your Oracle login, like when your account expires.

This will show your current username, user_id, account status, lock_date, and Expiry_date. Simple but really handy if you are going on vacation soon and do not want your account to lock out while you are away.

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Back in Time – possibly the best *nix system backup software I’ve seen

Back-In-Time Is quite possible the best (ok it is the only one I’ve used) system backup and restore software I’ve used for Linux ever! Take snapshots and schedule backups easy!

Linux

[Updated] Not so angry IP scanner using Windows native tools

If you find yourself  a stranger in a strange land and you do not have admin privileges on your system and you want to see what and who is out there;  Here is a way to sweep the network using native Windows tools. This Looks crazy to human eyes but I will break it down for you….

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CMD

Windows Sysinternals – A must have in every Hackers tool belt

If you do not know the name Mark Russinovich you need to get to know his work.  He started out hacking the windows  kernel and building some absolutely awesome utilities used by System Administrator and Hackers alike.

Tools

WMIC remotely find out who is logged into a system or what kind of system it is (pizza box?!?)

I needed to find out if a client has a laptop or desktop computer and the computer is on the network but the client was not available: Hmm. What to do, what to do! WMIC! first what is WMIC?

CMD

Blocking Ads and Malware with MVPS HOSTS

You can use the HOSTS file to block ads and banners, but you can also block many of the parasites and  malware that get onto our machines by surfing websites.  Here is a link to a MONSTER HOSTS: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip

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