Sergey Babkin
Graph Equivalence
I want to talk about some interesting graph processing I've done recently. As a part of a bigger...
Date: 07/02/2018
Certificate recipes
See also: all the recipes and the intro See also my series of posts about the certificates. The...
Date: 01/20/2017
Windows programming recipes
See also: all the recipes and the intro # How to: Convert Between Various String Types...
Date: 01/20/2017
assorted PowerShell recipes
See also: all the recipes and the intro # setting up the powershell remoting...
Date: 01/19/2017
Security descriptor recipes
See also: all the recipes and the intro For a nicer introduction, please read my series of posts on...
Date: 01/19/2017
WMI recipes
See also: all the recipes and the intro WMI is an RPC interface that allows to control the arbitrary...
Date: 01/19/2017
xperf recipes
See also: all the recipes and the intro Xperf is the Windows Performance Analyzer, in the Unix terms...
Date: 01/19/2017
virtual machine conversion recipes
See also: all the recipes and the intro Here are the recipes of how to convert the VMWare VM images...
Date: 01/19/2017
network configuration recipes
See also: all the recipes and the intro See also how to configure CredSSP with PowerShell. # DHCP...
Date: 01/19/2017
ETW and logging recipes
See also: all the recipes and the intro I have the other more detailed posts on the other aspects of...
Date: 01/19/2017
assorted recipes and links
See also: all the recipes and the intro I have collected here the small groups of recipes and links...
Date: 01/19/2017
how to upload a machine cert to Azure
When you're creating a VM with the Azure Resource Manager ("new Azure portal") and want to connect...
Date: 01/13/2017
how to run PowerShell from SetupComplete.cmd
See also: all the recipes and the intro In case if you didn't know,...
Date: 01/05/2017
recipe for a WDS test environment
See also: all the recipes and the intro This is an instruction on how to set up a test environment...
Date: 01/05/2017
windbg recipes
See also: all the recipes and the intro # Windbg interface for debugging through Hypervisor is...
Date: 01/05/2017
vim recipes
See also: all the recipes and the intro # disable indenting of comments :set fo-=ro # Unicode mode:...
Date: 01/05/2017
how to mount a System partition
As I've mentioned before, the on the machines with EFI BIOS the boot files are located on a separate...
Date: 01/05/2017
file operations and search recipes
See also: all the recipes and the intro # find all the files *.txt recursively under a directory,...
Date: 01/05/2017
svn server configuration recipes for Windows
See also: all the recipes and the intro # SVN for Windows https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32svn/...
Date: 01/05/2017
git recipes
Over time I've been collecting command snippets for doing various things. These might be some simple...
Date: 01/05/2017
how to pretty-print XML in PowerShell, and text pipelines
When I've needed to format an XML document nicely in PowerShell for the first time, I was pretty new...
Date: 12/31/2016
how to run arbitrary commands as a service
I want to show how to run the arbitrary commands as a service, even a PowerShell script if you want....
Date: 12/30/2016
reporting the nested errors in PowerShell
A pretty typical pattern for PowerShell goes like this: ...allocate resource... try { ... process...
Date: 12/30/2016
reading the ETW events in PowerShell
When testing or otherwise controlling a service, you need to read its log that gets written in the...
Date: 12/30/2016
expect in PowerShell
Like the other text tools I've published here, this one is not a full analog of the Unix tool. It...
Date: 12/30/2016
booting Windows from a VHD
The easiest way to have multiple Windows versions available on the same machine is to place some of...
Date: 12/29/2016
localization both ways
The localization of messages on Windows is done through the MUI files. I.e. aside from mycmd.exe or...
Date: 12/29/2016
un-messing Unicode in PowerShell
PowerShell has a bit of a problem with accepting the output of the native commands that print...
Date: 12/29/2016
getting a stack trace in PowerShell
One of the most annoying "features" of PowerShell is that when the script crashes, it prints no...
Date: 12/28/2016
diff in PowerShell
I have previously shown a variety of sed implemented in PowerShell. Here is another tool from the...
Date: 12/28/2016
Setting up the CredSSP access for multi-hop
I've previously shown the way to set up the multi-hop access with RunAs, but nowadays the...
Date: 12/28/2016
Windows service example in C++
Implementing a Windows service is not an easiest thing. There are examples on MSDN but they're not...
Date: 12/28/2016
how to install a new Windows service
I've started writing another post on how to write a Windows service and realized that I want to show...
Date: 12/27/2016
AdaBoost and Bayes
I'm continuing the reading of the book "Boosting", on the method of machine learning that boosts the...
Date: 05/31/2016
AdaBoost in simpler formulas
I'm reading a book about the "boosting": the machine learning idea that a better algorithm can be...
Date: 03/18/2016
Certificates, Part 5: dealing with the CNG certificates
As described in the Part 1, the certificates may belong to the classic "Crypto providers" and the...
Date: 03/18/2016
PowerShell remoting & DNS
I've noticed a strange thing: the PowerShell remoting works much faster if you use the remote...
Date: 03/04/2016
PowerShell & Windows Clusters
I've been recently working with the Windows Clusters. There is the quick deployment guide...
Date: 02/26/2016
Bayesian machine learning
I recently wrote a series of posts in my other blog on the Bayes expert system. Some time ago I...
Date: 01/03/2016
faster 3D printing
Today I saw a link to an article about the Moore's law for 3D printing:...
Date: 12/25/2015
Certificates, part4: PowerShell/WinRM remoting over HTTPS, and cert copying
To do the PowerShell remoting over HTTPS, the WinRM on the remote machine needs a certificate. If...
Date: 11/06/2015
Certificates, part 3: encryption and decryption by hand, and SecureString
Continuing the example from part 2, what if you don't have the class EnvelopedCms, such as on the...
Date: 11/06/2015
Certificates, part 2: encryption and decryption, and some about the cert store
To do the encryption and decryption with pubic/private keys, you need to start with getting a...
Date: 11/06/2015
Certificates, part 1: what do they mean
I've recently learned about certificates on Windows, and I must say collecting the information about...
Date: 11/06/2015
exporting C++ classes with STL members from DLLs
I've found this strange hack that lets you DLLexport the C++ classes with the public members of the...
Date: 09/08/2015
Collecting the boot-time events over the network.
Today I want to talk about what I actually do at work. I work on the service called "Setup and Boot...
Date: 06/23/2015