Do your certificate management in Powershell

I do a lot of security work, and that means lots of time poking at certificates. Tooling for certificates was never something I was happy with until I stumbled upon powershell. Let me give you a demo: PS C:\> cd cert:PS cert:\> cd .\LocalMachine\MyPS cert:\LocalMachine\My> dir Directory: Microsoft.PowerShell.Security\Certificate::LocalMachine\MyThumbprint Subject---------- -------4EE3FDE4FFF422935CAA0CA2783EF2CA601D6DE5 CN=NonSecretGlobalEncryptKey272BDAC53C26CC5A8067FE6076D2F74797F69AF7 CN=igordm1, OU=Workstations, OU=Machines,...

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Need another monitor? Try a USB Video Card.

I use 3 monitors at work and it is awesome. My laptop only drives two monitors so for the 3rd monitor I picked up a USB video card,  the  EVGA 100-US-UV16A1 . This thing works (*). The device installs drivers automatically and works like a charm on Windows 7. It only supports upto 1600x1200.  Also, I don't play games so I can't tell you how well that works, but for reading email and viewing OneNote  I can't tell this is a USB video card.(*) If you're not impressed...

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Using TShark

Today I realized this blog lost its google analytics (GA) tracking. Ooops, I accidentally erased the javascript that talks to Google Analytics in my blog template. I fixed the template on my blog, and wanted to verify my browser was sending data to GA. It takes the GA UI a while to show you data is coming in, so I decided to use tshark to see if my tracker code is working.Tshark is the command line version of Wireshark, an Ethernet level packet sniffer. Lets see what HTTP GETs occur when I connect to one of my posts:C:\Program Files\Wireshark>tshark.exe | findstr GETCapturing on Microsoft1)...

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