nate I discovered that it’s possible to draw any color character I wanted to the PowerShell console, so that obviously begged the question, can I draw ANY picture to the console? Well it turns out that the answer to that question is yes, I can. So I did: As always, questions and comments are welcome! ‘This … Read more Let’s Draw Pictures! / PowerShell Drawing
I talked about this in a similar article about the Windows 8 and 8.1 ISO’s. You can get those SHA1 hashes and ISO names from my other post here. Also, I realize that the table is clipping but I wanted to make sure all of the information was listed. On more than one occasion I’ve … Read more Windows 7 and 7.1 ISO Names and SHA1 Hashes
On more than one occasion I’ve wanted to know if the Windows ISO I have is legitimate or has been corrupted in some way. The only way to know for sure is to hash the file and compare the hash with a known good hash. Fortunately Microsoft has provided those hashes on it’s MSDN site. … Read more Windows 8 and 8.1 ISO Names and SHA1 Hashes
Manipulating the registry is one of the most common tasks a Windows system administrator runs into. It can often become a time consuming task. When you have to change a registry setting on hundreds or even thousands of computers, manipulating a particular key or setting can be next to impossible if you had to do … Read more Reading, Writing, Deleting and Renaming Registry Keys in VBScript
I have found, lately, that updating file names for large numbers of files to be tedious and time consuming. Lots of times I’ll find myself going through hundreds of files changing the underscore character to space, or removing some tag. Finding this really annoying and time consuming, I decided to write and share another script … Read more VBScript Find and Replace in File Names – fnfindandreplace.vbs
A few months ago I ran into a bit of a problem. I was programming a front end for web application, and in that web application I wanted to prompt for the users username and password, and then verify that that user was, in fact, a user in the domain. I then wanted to pull … Read more ASP Verify Credentials Against a Domain – IsAuthenticated
A while back I wrote an article about VBScript arrays and their various shortcomings entitled “VBScript Array Functions – DeleteFromArray, InArray”. I love these functions because they really simplify the manipulation of arrays and directly address some of the obvious flaws with the initial implementation of arrays in VBScript. At the end of that article, … Read more More Really Useful VBScript Array Functions – ArraySort and DoubleArraySort
I have been working pretty extensively with SQL Server Mirroring in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. It seems to work pretty effectively, though setup outside a domain configuration is convoluted to say the least. I have posted in the past about some problems I have had setting it up. My difficulties with the configuration aspect actually … Read more SQL Server Database Mirroring Limitations and Gotchas
I don’t know how many of you out there have had the pleasure of trying to integrate a website into the Google Checkout API but it’s a surprisingly painless process. They have a bunch of sample code that helps to streamline and accelerate the process drastically. Google has this nice control panel where it tells … Read more Simple XML Tool Written with VBScript in HTA
VBScript has a infamously weak implementation of array capabilities. There often comes situations where you’d like to manipulate an array and VBScript just doesn’t have the functionality built in natively. One of the things that I need to do frequently is delete a value from an array. Well to do this you have too loop … Read more VBScript Array Functions – DeleteFromArray, InArray