Most of the time when someone call’s they jump straight into the problem and I don’t always get to open the ticket before doing the work as I always have a million things open and I’m just lazy. Then I had an idea about what if I just make a simple hook to create a…
I had an instance where I wanted the updated information from the agent, but according to support there is no way to refresh the data, you have to wait the 6 hour interval. Unhappy with this answer, I came up with this little script hack that will force the refresh of the agent information straight…
As I recently learned of the insane price hike of .hosting Top Level Domains (TLD), I decided it was best to utilise a more sensible priced domain name. This is a the process I used to migrate all hosting services across. Step One. – Compile a list of domains For this I used the list…
When developing scripts for GFI Max, the biggest problem I find is making sure that it will work properly when its executed under the local system account as that’s the default user account the service runs under. I was using the remote background to remote into my own machine but this was painful and didn’t…
A few time TeamViewer has changed ID’s on me. (Not exactly sure why) But if you can get a command prompt on the machine you can get the ID out using the following query. UPDATE: Get the latest version here that pulls back the ID for even the latest TeamViewer 13. Version 9: reg query…
So lots of my old posts were lost a while ago in the ‘GREAT TEMPLATE UPDATE OF 2015’ But I’m slowly reporting the old content. If there is anything in particular you are after let me know and I’ll see if I can dig it up from the archives. ‘CryptoPrevent, v1.1b ‘Updated by Ivan Kelleher…
So I had to write an application that read the logs from other applications. Something so simple, yet couldn’t find a solution I was happy with. Still not 100% happy with it because if multiple lines are written at the same time it would only get the last line written. But here is what I…
In the past I’ve had to recover passwords from certain applications that customers don’t have or have simply forgotten. Here is a simple class I’ve written to generate key combinations used in brute force password cracking. Public Class cComboGenerator Dim Positions() As Byte Dim MaxLength As Integer = 10 Dim bCharSet() As Byte Dim bCombo() As Byte Public Sub…
WHM has a great backup feature which lets you offload all your backups to Amazon S3. Its simple to setup and frees up your server space. Although setting up is easy, restoring from S3 is not quite as easy. The backups do not show up for users to restore themselves and nor do they show…
A while ago I wrote a service monitor to watch for service crashes, it wasn’t the greatest as it just checked the service status at a defined interval and restarted it if it wasn’t running. This was not the best method ans since I lost the source, I decided to find a better way. Basically…
