So one of our clients want to get a monthly report on the last login details of all users in the Windows servers in our environment. So we came up with this powershell script which is scheduled to run end of every month. This will extract the data, and upload them to an S3 bucket. […]
How I managed to get all 3 AWS associate certifications..
You read it right. Today I got my third AWS certification – AWS certified SysOps administrator. I think a lot of it comes from common sense, and some general industry knowledge. I only have less than 2 years of IT experience, and even in that 1.5 years was of just desktop support. Its from my […]
How to select full URL upon click in Firefox..
I use Firefox as my personal browser. Although I sync it, there are some settings which are not synced. So every time I reinstall or change PC, I have to redo them again and again. This is one of those things. After a re install, if I click on the address bar, it wont select […]
How to get a Snapshot report from AWS using Python..
I was not sure if I was making a mistake by leaving Micron for a job in a small company. Anyway I don’t regret the move. In fact I actually love this job so far. It has all the good and bad things of working in a small company. Things are messy there. But.. the […]
Experience on taking AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate exam
I first heard about this whole Amazon web services thing back in 2015, when I was looking to find a job in IT. I felt that it is a great tool, and decided to study it. I created a trial account, borrowed books from library….and in 1 month, I lost interest and started doing other […]
My experience with RHCE and RHCSA exams
In one word, I can say the following: RHCSA – Easy RHCE – Doable Although I have been using desktop linux , particularly Ubuntu for a while, I never had a chance to do proper system administration. So in a way, I was a fresher. One advantage I had was that I had some domain […]
How to display a pop up message in a remote computer using powershell
In my daily work, there are times which I need to contact a user who is using a particular PC, but they don’t respond. Mostly, I need to contact them to inform about something, or get them to reboot, or install something etc. There are some cases which it is not possible, such as : […]
How to remove UAC prompt for a software in Windows
[This was originally published in my another blog on July 2016.] Today I received a support request from a user who is facing issues while running a macro script. He was facing Run-time error 429 : ActiveX Component cannot create object. Though I have never written macro, I decided to give a try. When clicked […]
How to use your Raspberry pi to download movies automatically
DISCLAIMER: This is for educational purposes only. Do everything at your own risk. Using bit torrent is not illegal, but downloading copyrighted materials are. Do not use this in a production environment. We are considering zero security in this case. EDIT: I see that this post gets a lot of attention. If this works/doesn’t work […]