Jan 21st, 09
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Just having a bit of fun with Powershell:
48 6F 6C 64 20 66 61 73 74 20 74 6F 20 64 72 65 61 6D 73 A 46 6F 72 20 69 66 20 64 72 65 61 6D 73 20 64 69 65 A 4C 69 66 65 20 69 73 20 61 20 62 72 6F 6B 65 6E 2D 77 69 6E 67 65 64 20 62 69 72 64 A54 68 61 74 20 63 61 6E 6E 6F 74 20 66 6C 79 2E A 48 6F 6C 64 20 66 61 73 74 20 74 6F 20 64 72 65 61 6D 73 A 46 6F 72 20 77 68 65 6E 20 64 72 65 61 6D 73 20 67 6F A 4C 69 66 65 20 69 73 20 61 20 62 61 72 72 65 6E 20 66 69 65 6C 64 A 46 72 6F 7A 65 6E 20 77 69 74 68 20 73 6E 6F 77 2E 20 A A 2D 2D 4C 61 6E 67 73 74 6F 6E 20 48 75 67 68 65 73
Solution:
convert-texttohexandback
Dec 24th, 08
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function CountDown
{
While ((Get-Date).Year -lt 2009)
{
Clear-Host
Write-Host “COUNTDOWN TO 2009:”
(Get-Date “1/1/2009 0:00″) – (Get-Date) | Format-Table Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds -AutoSize
Write-Host “Countdown brought to you by:”
Write-Host “http://www.peetersonline.nl”
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
}
Clear-Host
Write-Host “HAPPY NEW YEAR!”
Write-Host “from Hugo at http://www.peetersonline.nl”
}
CountDown
Happy Holidays to all of you!
Dec 18th, 08
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“It’s the time for lists”, I read somewhere today. Sure, that is true. But blogging little lists isn’t much fun.
So, I will let you generate your very own TOP 10 list. Use the following Powershell Oneliner to get a TOP 10 list of your most frequently used cmdlets in your scripts. (Remember to modify the path to your script storage location.)
Happy Holidays!
Get-ChildItem D:Scripts -Filter *.ps1 -Recurse |
Select-String (Get-Command|%{$_.Name}) |
Group Pattern |
Sort Count -Descending |
Select -First 10 |
Format-Table Name, Count -AutoSize
Dec 8th, 08
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There is more to life than just work. For that reason, and because I enjoy a puzzle, I have created a little Poker game in Powershell. The games’ concept is based on a poker game by Arne Rippe, which I enjoyed so much, I recreated it. You have to survive 20 rounds of poker. You can bet 100 credits, half your bankroll or go all-in. The payout is always 2 to 1. The special part about this game is the fact you get to see all starting hands and get to choose which you prefer. Give it a go, I’m sure you’ll like it! My high score is 3400 credits.
Hugo
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Apr 2nd, 08
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When you first look at the official VMware website, it looks like any other website of any other company that wants to sell their product. It’s filled with “management-talk”, nice charts and graphs and so on and so forth. But there is more than meets the eye…
When filling in a form on the VMware website to register for the upcoming Virtualization Forum 2008, I found the possibility to enter a prefix, such as Mr. or Prof. in front of my name. And although I could not find my titles ir. or MSCE, I did find the following list:
My first thoughts? “Rogue Leader, this is Rogue Two. I’ve got a bogey on my tail. Get rid of it R2D2!”
It turns out that these are all official Airforce titles, but I can’t help but think about a real IT-nerd, sick off all the management-talk, starwars fan of course, having a chuckle while publishing this form. It is subtle proof of the fact that VMware products are made by real people after all.
UPDATE: Strangely, the registration page on the VMware Forum website, does not contain these prefixes, while the page I found after clicking a link in the invitation thay emailed me did…
