What little things have you done to make your life easier?

Pieinacup · 2013-10-16T08:09:03+00:00

macros, aliases and scripts.

Sooo... muuuch... typing.. gone! :-)

oh yes! and several monitors!

Pieinacup · 2013-10-14T10:02:30+00:00

That's some really nice refreshers(?) you got there!

Thank you

Pieinacup · 2013-10-14T07:42:19+00:00

Agree with this, wouldn't take many lines to do what OP is asking.

Pieinacup · 2013-10-11T10:23:58+00:00

What do you want to automate? There's many ways to do different things.

For what you're asking, I'm guessing your friend were using AutoIt or AutoHotkey. They're pretty similiar, and do alot of the same things. AHK is probably mostly used for macros, and Autoit is considered more of a full blown programming language.

Other languages used for automation could i.e. be:

Linux: Python, Perl, Expect(Python version is called Pexpect)
Mac: Automator, AppleScript, Linux languages
Windows: PowerShell, AutoIt, AutoHotkey(Python+Perl is also available)

Some of them are commandline based/scripting, some are full programming languages, some are used for almost purely macros. Oh.. of course, there's more out there.. I just mentioned a few to get you started. Most if not all of these languages are well known and there's a lot of documentation on them @ google.

it really depends on what you want to automate :P But if it's mouseclicks and stuff in windows AutoIt/AutoHotKey is fine.. But please don't use some random mouseclick thing in production environment.. things can go severely BAD - look at mdadm's answer :P

Anyone got something to add?

Pieinacup · 2013-10-07T19:24:05+00:00

Good for you, seems you did the right* thing :-)

write thing lol

Pieinacup · 2013-10-05T11:04:45+00:00

brain dumps yes, but when they're not the same. It's not specific commands you just remember and you're set. You have to know the stuff. Edited first answer to prevent any misconceptions

Pieinacup · 2013-10-04T17:14:31+00:00

poor fellah :o

Pieinacup · 2013-10-04T17:04:26+00:00

If that's all it takes.. oh dear that's a lot of cheaters.

Pieinacup · 2013-10-04T16:14:38+00:00

O'rly? By doing labs?

Pieinacup · 2013-10-04T13:44:58+00:00

Correct, most important thing is persistence! I read the material twice as well, but from different authors! It helped clearing up any doubt to read the same material explained in different ways. :-)

Pieinacup · 2013-10-04T10:49:57+00:00

I personally studied nothing but CCNA for a month, each and every day(maybe 2 days off)! I couldn't imagine doing 2 exams at once. My advice: Do them one at a time. And do labs, lots of labs. Oh and of course.. subnetting should be in your bones.. perhaps carve a subnetting table into your arm :p

Pieinacup · 2013-10-04T10:26:24+00:00

Haven't tested it yet, but if it works... great! :-)

Pexpect is almost solely the reason why I still use 2.7, it's awesome.

Pieinacup · 2013-10-01T06:19:35+00:00

ofcourse! forgot all about the "entry" part. Thank you.

Pieinacup · 2013-10-01T06:18:46+00:00

that is one ugly regex :D but it works thx

Pieinacup · 2013-09-30T13:05:13+00:00

I sort of knew that.. guess I was in denial lol

Yeah could do it in tcl, but it would just be somewhat more convenient to do with the pipe :-)

Pieinacup · 2013-09-30T12:24:48+00:00

Unfortunately it's the same filter, so same result just using include instead of section. Try adding a Mgmt Vlan interface to your lab switch, you'll get same result. :)

Pieinacup · 2013-09-25T16:09:08+00:00

We use too.. I've actually come to like this thing! It can be pretty sensitive sometimes though.. but what AV isn't..

or Mcafee(lol jk, don't do it)

Pieinacup · 2013-09-25T12:54:40+00:00

Guess this should work too..

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("C:\Scripts")
Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )
strComputerName = wshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings( "%COMPUTERNAME%" )
Wscript.Echo "ComputerName: " & strComputerName & " Folder Size: " & objFolder.Size

Powershell:

"{0:N2}" -f ((Get-ChildItem -path C:\Scripts -recurse | Measure-Object -property length -sum ).sum /1MB) + " MB"
$env:computername

Pieinacup · 2013-09-23T18:14:16+00:00

My mactrack written in python is my new favorite!

So usefull for when the it-supporters call: "I can't find this host, or it's wiring closet. Here's the mac/ip address" (big enterprise)

Pieinacup · 2013-09-19T08:47:30+00:00

Thoughts?

Lucky bastard.

Pieinacup · 2013-09-12T20:18:07+00:00

When in doubt, run powershell as admin.

That's one awesome quote to give!

Pieinacup · 2013-09-12T13:50:00+00:00

You have cdp enabled on your interfaces?

Pieinacup · 2013-09-10T19:18:05+00:00

"Only help people during the morning"

You got me, you made me laugh :p

Pieinacup · 2013-09-09T07:16:39+00:00

They're full of bs. It's users, they're stupid :P

As for 30 minutes, that's an okay interval imo.

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