Gardens by the Bay : Singapore's newest crown jewels on Sep 18, 2011 in Travel Singapore Photos Gardens by the Bay consists of three distinctive waterfront gardens – Bay South, Bay East and Bay Central, spanning a total of 101 hectares. They are set in the heart of Singapore’s new downtown Marina Bay, encircling the Marina Reservoir like a...
Straits Mosque, Malacca (Masjid Selat Melaka) on Mar 23, 2010 in Travel Photos The Straits Mosque, Malacca (Masjid Selat Melaka) is one of the better known contemporary attractions in the historic town of Malacca. Lying off the reclaimed isle of Pulau Melaka, this imposing structure looks like it was lifted out of a fairy tale...
Listing Members of the Local Administrators Group of Computers in a Domain on Aug 30, 2009Here's a script which lists all members of the local administrators group for each computer in a domain. The computers.ini file contains the list of hostnames of all computers in the domain whereas the results.csv file will store the local administra...
Microsoft Technet Summer Scripting Games : Javelin Throw on Jul 6, 2009 in Technology Scripting Operating Systems I was invited to be a guest commentator for the Javelin Throw event during the recently concluded Microsoft Technet's Summer Scripting Games. For this scenario, I had to write a time logger with time-stamped text entries that describe a particular ac...
Checking for Remote Desktop Status of a Remote Server on Jun 25, 2009 in Technology Scripting Operating Systems Here's a script that checks for the Remote Desktop feature status of a remote server. The server hostnames are read off a servers.ini file. The server's registry is then queried for the DWORD value of fDenyTSConnections under the server's HKLM\SYSTEM...
List Local Users of Remote Systems (Powershell) on Jun 24, 2009 in Technology Scripting Operating Systems Here's a Powershell script that reads the hostnames off a text file (hosts.ini) and lists all the local users of the remote host:...
My Photos in Flickr Explore on May 12, 2009It has been roughly 3 months since I first joined Flickr. Close to 200 shots later, I had four of my uploaded photos featured in Flickr Explore. As of 12 May 2009, here are the four photos and some background story regarding each.The Old Clifford Pie...
Flaming Flower on Mar 31, 2009 in Family Life Photos Flaming FlowerOriginally uploaded by Badz ManaoisI was trying to upload this photo to my Flickr account when I decided to play around with the filters that come with my GIMP installation. Under the Filters menu, I chose Render --> Nature --> Flame. I...
Enumerating Members of a Group (including Nested Groups) on Mar 31, 2009 in Scripting Operating Systems Here's another simple and straightforward script that queries and enumerates the members of an active directory group. If there are nested groups within the groups being queried, these will also be subsequently checked and their members listed.This i...
