PowerShell wget
Ever wanted to download a file from the web using PowerShell? It's quite easy actually. Here is another quick little script for you:
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Trace Route
For some reason I wanted to write a trace route script in PowerShell, but decided to run it through Google first to see if it had been done.
Surprisingly few results came up, and as far as I can tell, only one true PowerShell script doing Trace Route without just being a wrapper for tracert or something similar:
http://josherickson.org/75/traceroute-with-starting-ttls/
Naturally I wanted to tweak it and give it my personal touch, and here is my result
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Ping x 3
Often when running WMI queries against a set of computers, the total script execution time can be quite long. Especially if there are computers that are unreachable, as the default WMI timeout is quite long. Therefore it's always smart to do a ping check first, so that you only run the WMI query against a computer you have verified is reachable.
I'm going to show you three different ways of doing ping check using PowerShell. For this test I'm pinging google.com and I'm only after a true/false Read more [...]
Get-Uptime
This is a script that I use alot. It uses WMI to query a remote computer and return an object showing how long the computer have been running since last reboot.
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Third-Party Commenting Systems for WordPress
When talking about third-party commenting systems for WordPress, there are three alternatives that usually come up:
Disqus
IntenseDebate
Livefyre
I want to talk about what they add to your blog. No, I'm not talking about features - you can read about that yourself on their respective homepages. I'm talking about overhead! The more you throw at your poor web server the longer it will take to process and serve it, and the user will be sitting longer waiting for the page to load.
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Linode Arch Linux – Part 1
Introduction
Welcome to my blog series where I will show you how to sett up a self-hosted single-site WordPress blog on a Linode running Arch Linux.
Prerequisites
Domain Name
Linode Virtual Server
SSH Client
Deploy New Server
The first thing we have to do is to deploy our new server. Start by logging into the Linode Manager and go to the dashboard of your Linode. (Note: If you haven't done so already, you might have to choose the location of your Linode first.)
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Microsoft Cluster – Get group ownership information
Ok, there are probably several different ways you can get information about cluster group ownership, and I'll try to post a "proper" script for doing this some other time. For now I just wanted to share with you the mother of all one-liners Read more [...]
VMWare: Get Basic Datastore Information
This script will take a name of a specific datastore, a list of datastores, or if none is specified query vSphere for ALL datastores, and will return an object with some basic information. Read more [...]
PowerShell Default Alias List
I'm a firm believer in NOT using aliases in scripts, but you will still find it being used in scripts all over the net.
Now, I know you can get this list yourself using the command Get-Alias , but if you find yourself without access to a PowerShell console, here it is anyway :) This is the default aliases in PowerShell v2. Read more [...]
Get-DiskInfo
This rather simple script will take one or more, local or remote, computer(s) as input and return an object with disk volume information. Should be easy enough to understand, but I'll try to add some get-help stuff to it later.
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