Find Open Port(s) on Address(es)

So, I was trying to find out which PC on a network (which I was VPN’d into) had VNC running on it. NetBIOS wasn’t working, so I couldn’t access the PC by name. All the tools that I found just didn’t work properly for doing a port scan on a range of addresses over VPN. So, I threw together a portscanner in Python (v2.6.6) really fast.
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September 30, 2011 | Filed Under Computers, Programming, Python | Leave a Comment 

Windows Media Center, OGM and MKV

So, I’m setting up a HTPC (Home Theater PC), and a lot of my video files are in OGM or MKV because they tend to be of higher quality than most AVI. By default, of course, Windows Media Center (and Windows Media Player) will not play these types of files. In order to remedy that, I installed K-Lite Codec Pack Mega followed by K-Lite Codec Pack x64. Read more

June 13, 2010 | Filed Under Computers | Leave a Comment 

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