Monthly Archive: September 2005

Searching Active Directory (VBScript)

Searching Active Directory (VBScript)

If, like me, you have been left irritated by the search function in Active Directory Users and Computers simply not telling you WHERE a particular user or computer actually is, simply use this bit...

Screenshot active window

Screenshot active window

Use ALT+PRTSCRN to get a screenshot of only the active window. Meaning you don’t have to cut out the surrounding chaff with your favourite image editing application.

Learning Windows Scripting.. pff

Learning Windows Scripting.. pff

When one is learning from a book, does one expect the code that one is learning from to be not just incorrect but non-existant too? I think not.

Large BLOB to MSSQL database

Large BLOB to MSSQL database

While trying to maintain security restrictions for a new system I’m developing to deliver data to our customers I came up with the following chunks of code to insert data in 256k chunks into a Microsoft SQL Server database.