Archives for August 2012

How to take a screenshot on a iPad.

The iPad is a very easy to use device.  What is surprising is that sometimes things that you wouldn’t normally do everyday are possible but are hidden away.

Thankfully taking a screenshot on the iPad is very easy to do.  All that is required is to press the Home button and Power button as the same time.

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When done correctly you will hear a camera click sound and the screen will blank out for a second.

The screenshot is stored in the Photo’s app.

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In the Photo app you can email one or more screen shots, by clicking the menu icon. Clicking the menu icon from a single picture will email the one image.

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If you click the menu button from the main page, you can select multiple pictures and send select the menu icon to email them.

Enable xp_cmdshell using sp_configure

When you install a SQL Server instance, any feature that is not necessary for the core engine to run has been disabled by default. xp_cmdshell is a significant security risk because it allows a compromised SQL Server to elevate the attack to the operating system itself, and from there to the entire network.

You can enable or disable features within your instance by executing the system stored procedure sp_configure with the xp_cmdshell option.

When the xp_cmdshell feature is disabled you will see the following message when it is executed:

Msg 15281, Level 16, State 1, Procedure xp_cmdshell, Line 1

SQL Server blocked access to procedure ‘sys.xp_cmdshell’ of component ‘xp_cmdshell’ because this component is turned off as part of the security configuration for this server. A system administrator can enable the use of ‘xp_cmdshell’ by using sp_configure. For more information about enabling ‘xp_cmdshell’, see “Surface Area Configuration” in SQL Server Books Online.

You can verify that the xp_cmdshell feature featured is disabled by executing the following query:

If the results of the query is 0 then the feature is disabled; if 1 then it is enabled.

In order to enable xp_cmdshell execute the following:

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