Every once in a while, we look to the PowerShell community for feedback on possible design directions on PowerShell. We’ve been exploring the integration of PowerShell and HTML5, and would love to get your feedback on a proof-of-concept.
This prototype uses the System.Net.WebClient class to “bootstrap” itself, and from there, awesomenes ensues.
From a PowerShell prompt, run the following command:
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For the next couple of posts, we’ll be talking about an important facet of computer security – hashing, hash codes, and especially what makes “cryptographically strong” hashes special. If you’re a developer or scripter and things stop making sense – let me know. It’s my fault, not yours.
One common problem in software is the desire to determine if two things (i.e.: files, documents, passwords) are the same or …
Read moreThe PowerShell community lost a great member last night. Carrying out one of his final wishes, his family posted this on Twitter last night:
We are sad to tell you, Andy “the most passionate Powersheller” passed away on 12th Jan 2011, and wanted us to say goodbye to you all. Andy
http://twitter.com/AndyTearle/status/25414783826141184
Rest in peace, Andy.
I recently had a friend ask me how to set up a website. They wanted more than a blog – something to post their artwork on, put up a gallery, and perhaps sell some things.
There are a couple of options – it just depends on how ambitious you are!
At the most basic level, here are some free options:
When is the last time you gave the gift of appreciation? I don’t mean “Thank You” as the social lubricant. I mean a thoughtful expression of exactly what somebody has done, and the impact it had on you.
One of my favourite work habits is expressing this simple act of ‘Thank You’. Not always to the person themselves – but to their manager.
Read moreAside: At work, I send ‘Thank You’s to the person directly, and CC …
When touch-typing, I just blasted this into my browser address bar:
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And then pressed enter before my brain could engage the brakes on my fingers. It turns out that I had my right hand off by one column on my keyboard. It was a column to the left, and I resigned myself to a page of garbage results. (Edit: The first result is, of course, not garbage :) ) Where do you think I was trying to go? Bing knew, and I’m …
Read moreIf you’ve been looking for the sample scripts from the PowerShell Cookbook, you might have had trouble finding them on the book’s main landing page. It turns out that September and October are very busy publishing periods, so was some delay getting them live.
Fortunately, a delay is just that… a delay :) O’Reilly recently published the PowerShell Cookbook sample scripts and code samples to the main page, so you can …
Read moreOne thing you sometimes run into when it comes to some management tasks is the concept of ‘Token Privileges’. Now these aren’t just privileges that Windows gives you to make you feel better - those are Token Compliments. Token Privileges are aspects of the things your user account can do, but you often don’t need that power enabled by default. For example, anybody can restart a computer, but windows doesn’t enable …
Read moreLast week the fine PowerScripting Podcast had me on the show. We had a great wide-reaching chat about usability in PowerShell, the Windows Product Cycle, system administration, automating yourself into a higher-paying job, and of course the recently released PowerShell Cookbook.
They posted the interview today, so take a look! …
Read moreIf you’ve been wondering why this blog has been flaky lately, perhaps this report explains a bit:
DAILY UPTIME AND PERFORMANCE SUMMARY
www.leeholmes.com
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date uptime dns connect request ttfb ttlb
2010-09-07 58.88 0.097 0.120 0.120 0.240 0.287
2010-09-06 92.93 0.101 0.214 …