Brian Sierakowski

Hah, yeah, probably about the coolest thing I own for the next week :).

I've read a few articles that state for the highly technical, Anti Virus typically does nothing more then to present false positives and use up system resources. The main way viruses spread is through people downloading and execute infected code and software vulnerabilities, so as long as you keep up to date with patches and stick to the beaten patch on the web, I think you'll be fine. There is also something to be said for the false sense of security that's created too, I think even technical users get the feeling of "I have an anti virus program, therefore I am invulnerable."

I knew a Tim Meadows in high school. Perhaps his handle is "D@nger", that would be rad :).

Ha, yeah, I'm not trying to rip anyone off with shipping... but I constantly keep under estimating shipping and end up losing my ass :). And, worst case scenario I'll at least make a few cents on the shipping! But ya, thanks a lot guys, if anyone gets stuck with anything you don't want let me know and I'll second chance offer it to the next guy :D!! -B

Hey!! Selling a bunch of my stuff on eBay, some of it's not very good, but there is a GUITAR in particular that's VERY good, so I thought I would make the offer to the forum if we have any musicians! http://tinyurl.com/n6rd2n Enjoy :). -B

Agree totally, however when you get to the clicky drive point, you very quickly reach the point of no return. Out of all the data recovery things I've done in that situation, replacing the logic board has the highest chance of getting your data back. That situation being: seemingly random failure, HDD has not been unplugged, moved, or dropped recently. But, again, I totally agree, when your HDD is clicking, there are a ton of different things that can be wrong, and a lot of them cant be fixed by ANY method.

Attn all: It is safe to google "blue-peter badge."

Bah ha ha ha. So, I guess the moral of the story is don't illicit feedback if you can't handle it being negative? You're coming to a forum where people use their cars as mobile WPA cracking stations, do you honestly think anyone here is going to get all that excited about something that automates a basic OS function? Next week I'll post a script with a GUI that puts windows in to hibernate mode, we'll see if the community gets really excited about that. I personally appreciate your efforts, I think this would be great for less skilled technicians who have to go to multiple sites where DHCP isn't an option, but I think your attitude is piss poor. Please, do not ever again respond to criticism with "the small program has been getting some good reviews on the net." This is not 1997, no one is impressed.

Least improved human being.

BTW, what OS?

Can you still get into safe mode? http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/ In the future, run this and back up all the keys if possible.

Keep in mind, if it was easy to access the data on the disk, you wouldn't be RMAing it. Id say aside from physically disrupting the disks, you're probably very safe, as a malfunctioning drive is unlikely to yield data. Unless Seagate wants to spend several thousand dollars sending it off to a clean room to remove the platters and read them one by one, I think you're in good shape. One thing you can try is if you can get the EXACT same logic board on that HDD, you can replace it. Requires a star bit most of the times, but I've had a pretty good amount of success in "clicky" type failures by replacing the board. If you're interested in that and are having issues, remove the board and take pictures of both sides, we can ID what numbers are important and see if you cant find a replacement on ebay.

I dont get it.

In DNS entries? Where do you see that?

Ah, ok. I think I'm running into an issue where I just want to make this script work for this one purpose without trying to learn anything else, so I'm missing vital pieces of information. When I run the script thusly: strComputer = "." dt = Replace(Date,"/","-") strFileName = "D:\VBS\" & dt & "-FreeSpace.txt" Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(strFileName) Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colDisks = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk Where DeviceID = 'C:'") For Each objDisk in colDisks objFile.WriteLine(objFile.Name) Next objFile.Close I get: Object doesn't support this property or method: 'objFile.Name'. I think unfortunately I'm going to have to tackle this problem from the ground up so I actually understand what I'm doing. Any good resources out there?

Ah ha :)! Thanks guys!! -Brian

The ESXi server or the VM you created? What networking mode do you have it in? Bridged or NAT?

Lol, I went to reply and it changed from the Original post to this. No worries :).

I don't understand how to get the "objFile.WriteLine(objFile.Name)" to work, where do I get the name from? I'm doing this now: strDate = "20090701000000.000000+000" strComputer = "." dt = Replace(Date,"/","-") strFileName = "D:\VBS\" & dt & "-OldFiles.txt" Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(strFileName) Set objWMIService = GetObject _ ("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colFiles = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * From CIM_DataFile Where CreationDate < '" & strDate & "'" & _ " AND Drive = 'D:'") For Each objFile in colFiles objFile.WriteLine (objFile.OldFiles) Next objFile.Close But when I run it I get "Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Object doesn't support this property or method: 'objFile.OldFiles' " I feel like I don't understand how the referencing is done, because I can run a script like this that works fine: strComputer = "." dt = Replace(Date,"/","-") strFileName = "D:\VBS\" & dt & "-FreeSpace.txt" Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(strFileName) Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colDisks = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk Where DeviceID = 'C:'") For Each objDisk in colDisks objFile.WriteLine (objDisk.FreeSpace) Next objFile.Close As you can see it's using objDisk.FreeSpace, the only other reference to FreeSpace I see in the code is in the strFileName. Thanks for the help!

Hey all, Unimportant information: One of my jobs is to make sure that our NAS server for a few customers doesn't fill up. The servers can manage their own space, but the way the system was sold is that both servers were put on the NAS as 2 folders, instead of creating two different arrays. So, when server 1 hits its threshold, it sees that the NAS is 95% full, and moves it down to 90%. But, Server 1 only has access to Server 1 files, so while we may have 12 months online for server 2, we may only have 9 months online for server 1. Somewhat less unimportant information: What I'd like to do is create a VBScript that I can run monthly to delete all files older then x days (probably 300). I'd also like to have a functionality of writing all the files that are to be deleted to a text file first, that way they can be reviewed and logged if needed. This is sort of what I'm working with thus far: strDate = "20031102000000.000000+000" strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject _ ("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colFiles = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * From CIM_DataFile Where CreationDate < '" & strDate & "'") For Each objFile in colFiles Wscript.Echo objFile.Name Next As you can see there are two problems. One, its doing older then date Nov 2nd, 2003, instead of automagically figuring out 300 days ago. Two, it's echoing the file names to the console instead of writing them to a file. And three its not actually deleting the file, but I was planning on having that be a separate file anyway, something like this: strDate = "20090701000000.000000+000" DIM fso, LogFile strComputer = "." Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set LogFile = fso.CreateTextFile("d:\VBS\OldFileLog.txt", True) Set objWMIService = GetObject _ ("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colFiles = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * From CIM_DataFile Where CreationDate < '" & strDate & "'" & _ " AND Drive = 'D:'") For Each objFile in colFiles objFile.Delete Next Thanks in advance for any help!! -Brian

Thanks! I can't quite get it to look as good as yours, ls -d is giving me an issue, but this definitely sets me on the right path! -B

Yep, I just installed ubuntu yesterday in a VM. Download an Ubuntu VMX file from easyvmx.com, get the free vmware player, and mount the ISO as a drive in player.

You're CCIE and it was "not that hard?"

Wow, at least that 8 mil will leave them 4 mil left over after paying their fine.

Not to be a noob, but how did you get such a clean canonical DNS listing for all associated entries?