Live HTTP Headers for Firefox 4.0

Last Updated on Saturday, 2 July 2011 02:50 Written by A.Jesin Saturday, 2 July 2011 02:50

Live HTTP headers if a plugin for the web browser Mozilla Firefox. Versions prior 0.16 did not support the latest Firefox 4.0 browser but now version 0.17 Live HTTP headers support Firefox 4.0 and above.

Download LiveHTTPHeaders for Firefox 4.0+ (116KB)

This is a direct download link from the official website of LiveHTTPheaders. See CHANGELOG of version 0.17.

Active Directory User Creation Script

Last Updated on Monday, 20 June 2011 01:06 Written by A.Jesin Monday, 20 June 2011 01:06

Bulk User creation in Active Directory is made easy with the VBScript given here. Thousands of users can be created at the click of a button. Lets go step by step creating this script. Open notepad and save it by typing “create-users.vbs” INCLUDING the double quotes. This will create a file with a .vbs extension instead of .txt. Then type the following code.

set objCON = GetObject("LDAP://CN=Users, DC=example, DC=net")
Set objUser = objCON.Create("user","CN=User1")
objUser.Put "sAMAccountName", "user1"
objUser.SetInfo()

This will create an user with name “User 1″ and login name “user1″ in the active directory domain example.net in the Users container. By default the user account will be disabled to create account and enable them using the script itself add the following code to the end of the code above Read More…

Configure roaming user profiles in Windows Server 2008

Last Updated on Saturday, 4 June 2011 11:01 Written by A.Jesin Saturday, 4 June 2011 11:01

Read this tutorial to configure roaming profiles for user accounts in Windows Server 2008 in an Active Directory environment. Roaming profiles have the advantage of users have their personal settings and files available on all computers they login to. But the only problem is increased network activity during logon and logoff. Roaming profiles work by copying the user’s profile to the client computer on which the user logs on and when the user logs off the files are copied back to the server. Folder permissions and policies have to be configured properly to ensure the privacy of user files are maintained, while the administrator is able to have access to the user profiles. Read More…

Forgot MySQL root user password (Windows)

Last Updated on Sunday, 23 October 2011 02:15 Written by A.Jesin Saturday, 19 March 2011 06:50

This tutorial describes how to reset the MySQL root user password if the root password is forgotten. The procedure in windows involves creating a new file which contains a query to UPDATE the MySQL root user’s password from the table named ‘user’ and then start the MySQL process again. Before starting check whether MySQL is running as a service or as a process. To check this got to start -> run or [windows] + R and type services.msc. If you find a service named MySQL or something similar to wampmysql then MySQL is running as a service right click it and stop it. Else open task manager and locate a process named mysqld and “End” the process. Read More…

Windows Logon and Logoff Scripts

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 February 2011 11:04 Written by A.Jesin Saturday, 26 February 2011 11:04

Create windows scripts and execute them when logging on or logging off. Windows Logon and Logoff scripts can be set in the group policy editor (gpedit.msc). In a workgroup environment when a windows logon or logoff script is set it works for all the users on that computer. Logoff and Logon scripts can be very useful to perform automated tasks such as take backups synchronize certain files and folder, delete temporary files etc. These scripts can be windows batch files (.bat), VBscripts (.vbs) or any other script than should be run on Logoff or Logon. Read More…

Internet Explorer Change User Agent

Last Updated on Saturday, 8 January 2011 09:51 Written by A.Jesin Saturday, 8 January 2011 09:51

Modify the user agent string sent by Internet Explorer by editing the windows registry. Internet Explorer sends a user agent string containing information about the IE version, OS version and some other information. You can edit it to add your own personal touch or to personalize your visit to a webpage. An example for a user agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) if you carefully look at this string you can find that MSIE 6.0 denotes Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and Windows NT 5.1 shows the kernel version of a Windows XP operating System. Read More…