While doing research for an article that I was writing on the drinking game King’s cup. I found that most drinking games all have the same sort of rules. Draw a card, roll a dice then follow the rule associated with that card or dice.
I started a collect all the drinking games rules that I could find that work with a “draw an item and follow the associated rule” type system. Then I put them all in a database and created a script to randomly generate a drinking game.
Random drinking game generator
Feel free to make any suggestions
A little while ago i got assigned to do an audit of all the PCs in our network. I could have taken the time to check every one of the computes one by one and write down what hardware was on each one but that would have taken the whole day instead I used this nice utility that took 15min to audit 30 computers.One of the nicest features about this utility is that it can create full HTML reports of everything on your system. It also is a portable exe (no install required) so I was able to run it from a USB stick.
SIW gives detailed information about your computer properties and settings, detailed specs for:
- Software: Operating System, Installed Software and Hotfixes, Processes, Services, Users, Open Files, System Uptime, Installed Codecs, Licenses.
- Hardware: Motherboard, Sensors, BIOS, CPU, chipset, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP Devices, Memory, Video Card, Monitor, Disk Drives, CD/DVD Devices, SCSI Devices, S.M.A.R.T., Ports, Printers.
- Network: Network Cards, Network Shares, currently active Network Connections, Open Ports.
- Tools: Password Recovery, Reveal lost passwords hidden behind asterisks, Product Keys and Serial Numbers (CD Key), MAC Address Changer, Shutdown / Restart.
- Real-time monitors: CPU, Memory, Page File usage and Network Traffic.
It’s worth taking a look at, I was very impressed.
A few days ago I was asked to find out where or close to where a user of ours was coming from. so i created this GEO location script Where does this IP Address come from
When ever a ISP buys a block of IP address they are entered in to a database. When a client of the ISP requests a new IP address the ISP gives them one from the block of IP address they they bought. With your IP address and the addressing information from your ISP I can look up the address of your ISP’s local router to get a general idea of where you are coming from (with in a few blocks in populated areas)
This information can be useful when generating ads for people from specific locations.
For example: I would want to show a red state something different the a blue state in a election year.
Try it out and tell me how close I got
Where does this IP Address come from
I found this great program today on LifeHacker news feed called Hippo Update Checker. It scans your computer for your installed programs and checks there version against the version in Hippo’s database. if there is a newer releases to any of your programs it displays them nicely in your browser with a download link.
I been looking for a program like this for sometime now, I hate having to check all my programs are up to date every few weeks it time consuming and not very fun. This program simplafys that and its easy enough for my parents to use.
The Update Checker is also a light .exe that you don’t need to install (which means it’s portable), this means that you could keep a copy of this utility on a USB drive and run it on peoples computers with out having to install anything.
Best of all its 100% completely free.
You can download Hippo’s Update Checker from there webpage filehippo.com.
If you have more than one system running XP you have obviously purchased more than one copy of the Operating System. However you may have forgotten which Product Key you used for which system. It happens. I have 5 systems and have had all of them running XP at times. XP does not store the Product Key in a recognizable format in the registry.
Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key. has the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, .NET, Office 97, Office XP, Office 2003 and Office 2007. It even has the ability by using Microsoft’s own script to change installation keys. See the Microsoft Knowledgebase article here Q328874
Visit the Keyfinder Homepage