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The World According to an Alcoholic

Posted by Ryan on September 7, 2011 at 9:21 am

Brought to you (between shots, of course) by Dustin Glick of Dustinland. Click for larger: Link – via I Love Charts

Hack the Sticky Keys Feature to Reset a Forgotten Windows Password

Posted by Ryan on August 31, 2010 at 8:23 am

If you’ve ever forgotten your password or been asked to assist somebody else in resetting their password, there’s a lot of different ways to accomplish it. Here’s how to do it by hacking the Sticky Keys feature. Over at the 4sysops blog, they’ve written up the process of resetting your Windows password by booting off a repair disk, opening a command prompt, and copying cmd.exe over top of sethc.exe.

Diagnostics for Internet Outage

Posted by Ryan on April 21, 2010 at 2:10 pm

Today we had an outage on our Internet connection. This post is a reminder to myself of the commands to use on the router to determine if the link is broken and to figure out why the ISDN dialer has fired up.
router# show isdn status
Global ISDN Switchtype = basic-net3
ISDN BRI0/0 interface
dsl 0, interface ISDN Switchtype [...]

Site outages!

Posted by Ryan on January 11, 2006 at 7:42 pm

Ever since NTL:home upgraded my broadband connection to 10Mbps it’s reliability has dropped significantly. At least once a month I lose a few hours connectivity to the Net. This might not seem too bad to some but I use the Internet a lot and many others rely on services running from my servers. I’m hoping [...]

Wallpaper & Photo Site Offline

Posted by Ryan on November 4, 2005 at 3:58 pm

I’m afraid to report that I’ve been forced to take my Wallpaper
& Photo site offline temporarily. I have been experiencing major
denial of service attacks from multiple ip address in Russia. Until I
implement some kind of download limiter I’ll just have to take the
whole site off the net.
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