Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Powershell Overview

I ran across this article the other day about PowerShell, and thought it was a very good 50,000 foot view of "learn these things in PowerShell"

10 fundamental concepts for PowerShell scripting

or here:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-fundamental-concepts-for-powershell-scripting/2146


And here's a cool trick:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2010/12/04/the-great-dollar-dollar.aspx

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Enabling the wireless network in Windows Server 2008

Since I had to re-do this recently, I thought I'd write a blog about enabling the wireless network in Windows Server 2008. Turns out? Somebody's already written a rather good one:

http://geekswithblogs.net/NewThingsILearned/archive/2009/01/30/enabling-wireless-network-in-windows-server-2008.aspx

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

DownThemAll

Okay, so when I first heard about DownThemAll, pulling tons of files off the Internet WASN'T what first came to mind.

However, I've been using this to pull files en masse from various tech websites, and I have to say I like it.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Life with Word

Life with Word can be fun. However, in Word 2007, MS introduced the automatic paragraph line behavior. This does not support how I use Word. I finally had enough, and went hunting for help - I found this article on the MS support site that tells you how to fix the issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921174