http://techgrabage.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:21:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After mangling several batch files and bastardizing a few other scripts I decided it was time to delve into PERL. I have been wanting to learn PERL for quite some time now and finnnaly wrote my first script today… Here it is in all its glory… c:\perl\bin\perl.exe Created on 9/15/2005 ... http://techgrabage.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/perl-copy-files-changed-yesterday/ Well, progress is being made on the IE front. I just today installed IE 7 Beta 1 on my laptop. The first thing that cough my eye is the tabbed interface. I am a very big fan of tabbed browsing. Just makes things easier for me. ... http://techgrabage.blogsome.com/2005/09/07/internet-explorer-7-beta-1/ Fox News Alert: “SENATE APPROVES $10.5 BILLION IN AID FOR HURRICANE KATRINA VICTIMS; HOUSE CONVENES AT NOON TO SPEED BILL TO BUSH FOR APPROVAL” They meet at night and are set to SPEED the bill to Bush at NOON! NOON! What is so speedy about that? -mwm http://techgrabage.blogsome.com/2005/09/02/speed/ I must admit I am proud of the media during this terrible time. Even FOX is pissed off. Our leaders deserve to have their cages rattled over this. There are hard questions to be answered by all, from the top down. To hear senators on TV slapping each ... http://techgrabage.blogsome.com/2005/09/02/praise-for-media/ IS this America? What makes America America? What defines us? The situation in the south is appauling. We are now a week into this and the situation is STILL going the wrong way. As far as I can see there is absolutely no excuse for the lack ... http://techgrabage.blogsome.com/2005/09/02/enough-is-enough/ I am a user of VMWare, a software that speaks for itself. I want to use VMWare to create my base images for various tasks and hardware platforms. Today I will test this: 1) Add a new drive to a virtual machine 2) In the guest OS, format ... http://techgrabage.blogsome.com/2005/08/26/ghost-a-virtual-machine/ I am using the newest version of the Ghost Corporate Console of late. Works very nicely. In conjunction with Universal Imaging Utility (UIU) I can deploy a single ‘universal’ image to many different machines. Once I have this universal image created I can deploy it to ... http://techgrabage.blogsome.com/2005/08/25/ghost-imaging/ Beta testing that is. I have been doing quite a bit of beta testing of late. Some pretty high profile stuff to. Tested a new inkjet printer from Dell and some cool stuff right now for Verizon. The best part are the incentives. For one ... http://techgrabage.blogsome.com/2005/08/23/testing-1-2-3/ Users are objects in Active Directory. Shares via DFS can be objects in Active Directory. Printers are objects in Active Directory. There are so many objects in AD. Why do I need to create these convoluted scripts to attach printers and shares to users? Why? ... http://techgrabage.blogsome.com/2005/08/23/windows-login-scripts/ SUN… Of all companies. Perhaps it is the pinch SUN Microsystems has felt since the popularity of Linux and other open source initiatives picked up the steam they have of late that has made them be on the side of the user, not big business. SUN has ... http://techgrabage.blogsome.com/2005/08/23/suns-dreams/