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Where did the time go?

First, I go on vacation (this is Hal typing). Then, Jonathan has a big project at work which takes up our next available studio slot. Then, my weekend just totally filled up end to end. I’m afraid we still haven’t gotten Episode 23 out yet, folks! But fear not, this will not become a …

Vacation delay

Hi all. Just wanted to let you know that I was out of town on vacation last week, so Jonathan and I were unable to record the show at our usual time. We’re getting together to record again this Thursday with an estimated air date of April 20th. To make it up for you, we’ll try to do …

Episode 22 – The One About Brandon

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode Today we’ll bring you the second half of our interview with Jeffrey Snover. We think this part is even better than the first half. We’ve also got some news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you. News The News today …

Get-Directory Function

In the olden days (i.e. when I used CMD.EXE), I often did “dir *.” to quickly get a list of the directories in the current path. PowerShell doesn’t work this way (which is good because it would be unexpected), so I had to make a replacement. function Get-Directory { ls $Args | ? { …

Episode 21 – One-half of Jeffrey Snover

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode This week, our Intrepid Heroes talk about News in the PowerShell world, bring you fresh Resources from the wild Internet, and share their experiences in the Tips section, with you, the Listener. Oh–and we also interview JEFFREY …

Episode 21 coming soon.

I just wanted to let you know that the new podcast should be posted by Tuesday morning. We had a great interview with Jeffery Snover that you don’t want to miss!

One-Liner: Countdown Timer in PowerShell

Here’s a quick one for ya. Perfect kitchen timer. Who doesn’t have a laptop with PowerShell on it in their kitchen? 🙂 start-sleep (60*9); write-host ("a"*4)</pre> Start-Sleep works in seconds, so you see where I've done some quick math to get nine minutes. Not sure if the …

One-liner: Pop up a message box

You could paste this into a scheduled task or something if you want an annoying reminder to pop up on your screen. :) Now if only schtasks.exe was as easy to use as PowerShell… PowerShell -NoProfile -NonInteractive -Command [reflection.assembly]::loadwithpartialname('system.windows.forms'); …

Episode 20 – Jeffrey Snover is coming

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: Please visit our sponsors! [ShellTools Software](http://powershell.com) - makers of PowerShell Plus and PowerShell Analyzer [SDM Software ](http://sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php)- "Windows Group Policy Management Simplified." Featuring the …

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