Laptop Ergonomics

Great Group Policy Reference tool (GPO)

Useful and Handy...that's how i like it!
check it out on:
http://gps.cloudapp.net/#

Need to Format a USB drive properly?

From an elevated command window, run the following commands:

1. Diskpart

2. List Disk (determine which disk is your USB stick, probably disk 1 if you only have 1 hard drive)

3. Select Disk 1 (use the correct disk number here)

4. Detail Disk (ensure you have your USB drive selected)

5. Clean (this destroys all data)

6. Create partition primary

7. Active

8. Format quick fs=ntfs

9. Assign letter e: (any drive letter that works is fine)

10. Exit

Restrict Wireless access on your Cisco Wireless-G Broadband Router WRT54G2

You can be nice to your neighbors and leave your wireless internet open to all. I wouldn't do it.
In addition to having a password for your wireless network, i recommend setting up few more obstacles, such as:
1.Allow only specific MAC addresses
2.Allow only specific IPs - or range
3.Limit wireless access based on day of the week or time of the day.
4. Manually open wireless access when you need it - see previous post here.

In order to configure any of the above, logon to your router's management page and go to Access Restrcition.

See below:

How to save youtube videos to your local drive

Always handy...
there are many sites that will do it for you, my favorite: keepvid.com

You may want to check this one too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYYOOAXHlWY

Test message to a BlackBerry device with delivery confirmation

Want to make sure your BB is getting msgs from your corporate Exchange?
Send that user an email using this subject line:

If it works properly, upon delivery to the BB unit, you will get a confirmation back, which looks like the above.

What is PING -t

ping -t will ping the specified host until stopped.

The PING command is a tool that can give you useful information on the nature of your Internet connection. PING allows you to see if a particular IP address or a particular Domain name exists on the Internet and is actively returning PING requests.
Once you have your command line open type in Ping, followed by a space and then the IP address or domain name that you want to test. for example: ping 10.5.2.6
Here is a normal reply:

Reply from 10.5.2.6: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=252
Reply from 10.5.2.6: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=252
Reply from 10.5.2.6: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=252
Reply from 10.5.2.6: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=252

Ping statistics for 10.5.2.6:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 100ms, Maximum = 100ms, Average = 100ms


These results tell you that four test packets were sent out of 32 bytes each in size and came back from 10.5.2.6 in a time of 100ms. The TTL figure stands for time to live and defines how long your Ping requests bounce around before expiring.


Here is how it looks when it fails:
Pinging 10.5.2.6 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 10.5.2.6:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)


Ping Options.

The Ping command can be used with the following switches. To add a switch to the command just add it after a space. e,g,

Ping -t
Ping -t -a

Options:

-t Ping the specified host until stopped. Stop with CTRL and C.
-a Resolve addresses to hostnames.
-n count Number of echo requests to send.
-l size Send buffer size.
-f Set Don't Fragment flag in packet.
-i TTL Time To Live.
-v TOS Type Of Service.
-r count Record route for count hops.
-s count Timestamp for count hops.
-j host-list Loose source route along host-list.
-k host-list Strict source route along host-list.
-w timeout Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply

Oh, BTW, in case you use Ping -t and it stops after 49.7 days, here is the fix , well, just in case....