Nerd Boys » Windows http://nerdboys.com Tech tips, news and reviews Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:07:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How to Find Out Who is Logged On at a Windows Computer http://nerdboys.com/2008/11/14/how-to-find-out-who-is-logged-on-at-a-windows-computer/ http://nerdboys.com/2008/11/14/how-to-find-out-who-is-logged-on-at-a-windows-computer/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:17:00 +0000 Joe Kelly http://jojosoho.com/?p=43 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

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]]> http://nerdboys.com/2008/11/14/how-to-find-out-who-is-logged-on-at-a-windows-computer/feed/ 1 How to Find Uptime in Windows http://nerdboys.com/2008/11/14/how-to-find-uptime-in-windows/ http://nerdboys.com/2008/11/14/how-to-find-uptime-in-windows/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:14:00 +0000 Joe Kelly http://jojosoho.com/?p=42 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

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In theory, this level of indirection makes maintenance easier because on the client side you can map a drive letter to the virtual share, allowing you to change the

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I work with some Dell computers (models: Optiplex SX280, Optiplex GX620, Precision 690 and Precision 370) that have this NIC and the current version of Bart’s Boot CD is unable to recognize it. The automatic NIC detection fails with a message to the effect of “could not find any device, you can try manually selecting a

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