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Monday, June 14, 2010

Two Windows Command Iterations I Had Forgotten About - netstat and tasklist

Yeah, I hear you now.  There is no way you forgot about netstat.  You would be correct.  However, there is an iteration of netstat that I have either never done, or have not done in sufficiently long enough ago to have forgotten its use.

The command is shown below along with some output.

C:\Documents and Settings\dpitts>netstat -anbov

Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID
TCP 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 180
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\ISATQ.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\INFOCOMM.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\SMTPSVC.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\INFOCOMM.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\SMTPSVC.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\INFOCOMM.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\SMTPSVC.dll
[inetinfo.exe]

TCP 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 180
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\ISATQ.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\INFOCOMM.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\w3svc.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\INFOCOMM.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\w3svc.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\INFOCOMM.dll
[inetinfo.exe]

...

(takes a couple minutes to run - your milage may vary)

This is showing me the current active open ports.  As you can see, ports 25 and 80 are open to the world (0.0.0.0).  The lines showing the dll’s are the processes that are running that are a part of the process inside the square brackets [] that is the service that is running - inetinfo.exe in both cases shown above.  Off to the right is the process ID (PID).

This brings me to my second command - tasklist /svc.

C:\Documents and Settings\dpitts>tasklist /svc

Image Name PID Services
========================= ====== =============================================

inetinfo.exe 180 IISADMIN, SMTPSVC, W3SVC

This tells me I have 3 services running as part of inetinfo.exe on PID 180 - IISADMIN, SMTPSVC, W3SVC

Now to figure out how to use these commands in a productive way.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

A thousand times I’ll tell you… quit being a roadblock to your own success!

I have heard and seen it asked more times than I can count. I have seen and heard it asked by people looking for jobs, by people writing books, and any where else in the business world where documents are submitted electronically. While it changes slightly, the question is essentially the same.

I’m just curious as to why you, like many recruiters, emphasize a WORD copy of a resume for a position that requires a candidate who is, obviously, heavily into Linux. Like a growing number of Open Source professionals, I don’t use Microsoft products. Can you not make use of a pdf, or text format?

The above is a question asked on linkedin.com for a position for a LAMP engineer/Administrator.

To which there have been several replies…

I’m not sure about this case in particular, but recruiters like to have it in Word format so that they can add their logo/information to your resume. Can’t do that in txt or pdf.

...surely a copy of the resume saved as HTML would work, no? Then it could always be imported into Office or most any other word processing app. Just a thought…

So, here, with all my astuteness, is my response.

A word copy is required for many reasons. First, there has to be a standard. The standard in the business world is Microsoft Word. Second, recruiters live in a business world, not in the world that they are recruiting in. They don’t accept .txt, .html, .pdf, xml or anything else because it is not their job to prepare your marketing documents. It is their job to hook up candidates with clients. Third, they have written their tools and processes to work with the business standard. Recruiters, as a general rule, are not technologists. They are marketers, sales people, and the like.

YOUR job is to make THEIR job as simple as possible. YOUR job is to make THEIR job as efficient as possible. YOUR job is not to be a computer bigot, a computer snob, nor a roadblock to their success nor to your own.

It is not about doing something that could be imported or that “would work”. The more time THEY spend doing YOUR job, the less time THEY get to spend doing THEIR job, which means the LESS money YOU and people like you get to make.

I don’t really mean to come off sounding like a butt. I have heard this question and these types of answers more times than I can count. The business world doesn’t care about what we are using. They care about making money. They care about using the right tool for the job. The right tool (in today’s environment) for submitting an electronic resume is in Microsoft Word format. I am not in any way endorsing Microsoft or their products. However, I am a realist. That being said, I keep my resume available in Word, HTML, and PDF on my web site. The PDF almost never gets looked at (other than by the search engine bots), the html and word ones do.

One more thing, if you believe the format you desire your resume to be in can be imported into office, then great. Save it in whatever format you want, and then import it to office.

Actually, I have a better idea. I think you should leave your resume in pdf or txt or whatever. That way, I have a better chance of getting the job.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Vista’s hosts file

Well, I finally got it!

I have tried over and over to get Vista’s host file to work. It’s not like I don’t know the format or anything!

Well, the solution is in the file itself (c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts for most installs). The last entry looks like this:

::1

Now, I don’t know what that means. It reminds me of NIS and other similar. My guess is that it tells Vista - “Please ignore this file, the user is an idiot and constantly has PEBCAP errors. “

The fix was to remark out that line

#::1

and save the file. Now it works!

As with all things Geek, your mileage may vary.

Friday, December 12, 2008

thingamajob needs to hire me, they obviously have no clue about how to do their job

I was looking at a set of jobs and filled out some applications.  It is OBVIOUS that thingamajob.com needs to hire me.  Here is a sample of the e-mail their computers sent me in response to a position.  How sad!!  You know, it is NOT THAT HARD to have variables actually display the contents of the memory location instead of the name of the variable.  It is also NOT THAT HARD to actually TEST your systems.

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Welcome David,
You just took a big step toward finding a fantastic job by applying to the below position through one of our partners, !@WSVENDORNAME@!. This message is to confirm that your resume has been sent to !@COMPANYNAME1@!, Inc. via Thingamajob, the free online job search tool for the Allegis Group Family of Companies.
Title:UNIX/SAN Architect
Company:!@COMPANYNAME1@!
Skills Needed:UNIX, SAN, BILINGUAL SPANISH
Location:Miami, Florida
Category:Information Technology
Rate:!@RATE@!
Job Type:!@JOBTYPE@!
Posting ID:1835002

To receive emails from us more effectively, please add us to your “Contacts” (i.e. Address Book, Buddy List, etc.)
In order to process your online job application, we had to create an account for you in !@COMPANYNAME2@!, Inc.’s online job search tool - Thingamajob.com
Thingamajob is owned by Allegis Group, parent company to some of the world’s largest staffing companies including Aerotek, TEKsystems,and Stephen James. These staffing companies work with the hiring managers who have the jobs you want. When you put your resume online or apply to a job posting on Thingamajob, a recruiter matches your experience with one of our many opportunities. If your experience meets the job’s objectives, a recruiter will contact you to prepare you for the interview and get you in the employment seat.
To log into Thingamajob to track your application, or update your resume, please use the following login information
Username: !@USERNAME@!
Password: !@PASSWORD@!
If your experience meets the qualifications of the position, a recruiter will be in touch with you shortly to further discuss your professional background.
To log in, go to Account Login http://www.thingamajob.com/My-Thingamajob.aspx
Thank you for using Thingamajob.com… Remember We’re Hiring!

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Saturday, November 29, 2008

www gets a new look

I decided I wanted a more professional looking site for my professional face (i.e. http://www.dpitts.com), so I have started redoing it.  I got my widget working for AIM communication and I am going to tweak it more.  I’ve got my tabs working.

The next step will be to put it in drupal and to make the areas a bit more dynamic.  Mostly to give me another opportunity to mess with drupal (I’ve done 2-3 sites already).  I want to tie it in a bit more with my blog.  Eventually, I’ll use a similar design for my blog so I have consistency, but I don’t want to lose my mooses, so I’ll have to work those in somehow.

Any suggestions are always welcome.