Adding users manually to [[Active_Directory|Active Directory]] can be a chore, especially if you have a lot of users to add and/or you need to remember to set several options. Fortunately AD is readily scriptable. I generally use Python for this purpose, and there are numerous examples for how to do things like add a new […]

How did I not know about this? “Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin. It is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team.” Previously I’ve been using PuTTYcyg which is a version of PuTTY with Cygwin support added. It’s good, but mintty seems a lot neater – rather than being a […]

For some reason (product differentiation? simple oversight?) VMWare Server 2 ((Downloadable from https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/)) has no option to create a VM using a physical disk. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean that it can’t use them; you just need to import a predefined VM and tell it to use that. It’s possible to create a VM in the […]

Some Background: BTW: In the context of this post, ‘Windows’ always means ‘Windows NT’. The Windows [[Kernel_(Computing)|kernel]] is designed to support multiple independent subsystems – different application environments – atop its [[Native_API|native API]]. The two most common examples of Windows subsystems are the [[Windows_API|Windows API]] – formerly known as Win32 and used by the overwhelming […]