I recently ran into an issue after remoting into a Windows machine using RDP where I saw a completely white screen. My initial response was to hit CTRL + ALT + DEL, but this pulls up the task manager on my local machine, not the remote machine with the white screen. Here are a couple…
60 Day Challenge: CAHIMS Certification
As I near the completion of my undergraduate degree in computer science and await an acceptance letter from Georgia Tech’s OMSCS program (hopefully), I find myself faced with a lot of free time. I’ve been working in healthcare information technology for the past 10 months. The most obvious pivot at this point is to combine…
Privilege Escalation with Quick Assist
The inability to perform actions requiring administrator privileges is a big limitation of Windows Quick Assist remote desktop. This is especially true in a business environment where your users should never have administrator privileges. The reason for this is User Account Control (UAC) security policies. UAC allows users to sign in using a standard user…
Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
In 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman wrote a paper describing a cryptographic technique to exchange a shared secret publicly. Here’s a link to the original paper. It is an interesting historical moment that has shaped the internet and modern computing as we know it. It is definitely worth a read. I’ll also link a…
Merging .txt / .csv / .tsv files
If you have a collection of tab or comma delimited files that you want to combine or merge into one document, you can use the CMD TYPE command: type *.txt > mergedfile.txt The TYPE command displays the contents of one or more text files to the console. This will work as long as each file…
2024 New York International Auto Show
A few pictures from the 2024 New York International Auto Show