Category Archives: windows

TCP Traffic Redirection on Windows

Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by Matti

A very nifty tool, called RINETD. Redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another. rinetd is a single-process server which handles any number of connections to the address/port pairs specified in the configfile. How to use it … Continue reading →

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Cool Windows Screensaver: The Blue Screen Of Death

Posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009 by Matti

Here’s a fun piece of software by SysInternals: BlueScreen. It does what the name implies: Bluescreen is a screen saver that not only authentically mimics a BSOD, but will simulate startup screens seen during a system boot. * On NT … Continue reading →

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Windows 7 Release Candidate Available For Download

Posted on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 by Matti

Get it, while it’s hot! A fun sidenote, though: The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly … Continue reading →

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Connect SQL Server Management Studio Express To Alternate TCP Port

Posted on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 by Matti

Since I didn’t find it right away, here’s the solution. The default notation “server:port” doesn’t work here (for God knows what reason). You need to seperate the hostname and port with a comma. Here’s an example.   What ever happened … Continue reading →

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PowerShell: Windows Scripting Made Fun Again!

Posted on Friday, February 27, 2009 by Matti

Windows Scripting used to be horrible. You got a lousy language to write in – Visual Basic (especially coming from C-like languages) – and it just didn’t seem all that powerfull. Any action you wanted done, required quite a few … Continue reading →

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