Sometimes it’s handy to find out who is logged on at a remote Windows computer. For example, before rebooting a critical server after hours, you might want to make sure your boss isn’t logged in at his computer.
In Linux, this is easy. You simply login to the remote computer with ssh (or telnet…yikes) and run the who command. For example:
me@bosscomputer:~$ who
boss tty7 2008-10-16 07:57 (:0)
me pts/0 2008-11-14 15:25 (mycomputer)
In Windows, I found two ways of doing this. Both ways work with Windows XP and Windows 2003 (and perhaps other versions too). …Continue reading » How to Find Out Who is Logged On at a Windows Computer
Sometimes it’s useful to find out the uptime for a Windows computer. For example, if you are rebooting a whole bunch of Windows computers and you aren’t careful about keeping track of which ones you have just rebooted, you can check the uptime.
In Linux, it’s easy to find out how long a computer has been up and running. You just runtime the good ol’ uptime command. For example:
me@mycomputer:~$ uptime
09:17:32 up 23 days, 19:13, 3 users, load average: 0.36, 0.54, 0.49
In Windows, it’s almost as easy but not quite as intuitive. …Continue reading » How to Find Uptime in Windows
If you’re thinking about virtualizing your IT environment but you don’t necessarily have a lot of budget/money to do it with, here are a few tips that may help you on your way.
Most of us already know about VMware’s offering of VMware Server for free. This, coupled with some great open-sourced operating systems can make for some pretty efficient hypervisors. …Continue reading » Installing VMware Server on Ubuntu 7.10
Recently, I’ve discovered a very neat tool for administering some of my linux servers. It is called webmin, and it may be one of the more complete web based system administration tools I have seen for linux. …Continue reading » Installing webmin on Ubuntu 7.10
