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How to Check Whether an AI Answer Is True: A Practical Verification Guide

August 23, 2026 Zsolt Agoston
Learn how to verify AI answers, citations, commands, dates, and technical claims using primary sources, independent confirmation, and safe testing ... Read More

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Restore AD Active Directory Object – Tombstone Reanimation

June 29, 2021
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A step-by-step guide to reanimate deleted Active Directory objects from their tombstone. This is the only method if Active Directory Recycle Bin is not activated in the domain ... Read More
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How to Query and Restore Deleted AD Users with PowerShell

June 29, 2021
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Query deleted AD accounts or get a list of all removed AD users with PowerShell ... Read More
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Use the ls command to list only a directory, NOT it’s contents in Linux

June 28, 2021
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Learn how to get the filesystem information of a directory itself, NOT it's contents, using ls in unix ... Read More
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How to create NAT-ed subnets in Hyper-V

May 17, 2021
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In this exercise we go through the process of setting up a Hyper-V environment on a regular computer, with multiple virtual switches and subnets configured on them ... Read More
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Grep command in PowerShell (recursive)

May 10, 2021
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A simple function to mimic the Unix recursive grep command ... Read More
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Fix 100% disk usage in Windows 10 with slow HDD

May 2, 2021
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Do you have an older computer, with a traditional HDD on the slow side? Is that computer running the drive with 100% utilization, and the response time is super high, possibly 1000-5000ms? You might have tried to disable the Windows ... Read More
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Convert to and from Epoch Time using PowerShell

March 26, 2021
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Converting date and time to Epoch (Unix) time, and Epoch time back to human readable date ... Read More
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PowerShell – How to Decrypt a SecureString

March 18, 2021
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Two ways to decrypt a SecureString in PowerShell ... Read More
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Base64 Encode with Fixed Line Length Output in PowerShell

March 10, 2021
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Here is an example script that encodes an arbitrary text with Base64 method using PowerShell and breaks up the output into fixed-length lines to make it more easily readable. We use 76 character long rows as the MIME (Multipurpose Internet ... Read More
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Split a String Into Fixed Length Lines in PowerShell

March 9, 2021
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A one-liner to split up a long string into fixed-length rows in PowerShell ... Read More
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