Home renovation kept me from doing much IT related things in my free time, but this is something I needed to share. If you do this in powershell: $array = @(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)$array[0..-1] The result is really not what any programmer would expect. Rather than throw an exception, powershell simply decides to roll over to the end … Continue reading Powershell folly
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Remote query of priviliges for local principals
As part of investigations, you may need to query which privilege is held by a local principal, such as a local user or group. There is of course 'whoami' which tells you everything you need to know when logged in on a given system. And there is the ProcessExplorer utility which is incredibly powerful, and … Continue reading Remote query of priviliges for local principals
Back in the saddle
Quite a while I used to be a software developer, doing lots of interesting systems programming projects for companies like IMEC, JDS-Uniphase, Alactel Space, ... mainly in the C++ language. I focused on kernel level programming, real-time software, inter process communication, things like that. I switched to an admin job to be close to home … Continue reading Back in the saddle
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