Monthly Archives: January 2008

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Now you see me – Now you don’t !

This entry was posted in Software on January 7, 2008 by HAL

This is an item that I found some time ago and wanted to share with other admins out there and which explains succinctly an issue that can be quite frustrating to deal with – the ability for users to see folders under a share to which they have rights to a folder in but not […]

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[Jack Bauer] Chloe, open up a socket! There’s no time Chloe, I need that socket open NOW![/Jack Bauer]

This entry was posted in Programming Software on January 7, 2008 by HAL

Every year I like to watch the complete last series of 24 with Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer working for CTU. Since the first series I have watched the use of technology in the show and been asked on many occasions – “Can they really do that?” I have a lot to thank the show […]

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Code 99 at the Plate department !!

This entry was posted in Review Software on January 7, 2008 by HAL

I guess every industry, business and programming language has its own set of “codes” that define what users and developers can understand from the documentation or standing instructions that they issue. Without this information – its is nigh on impossible to get to the root of what is be done (or what can be done) […]

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Powershell and Serial Ports – for the Sentry Project

This entry was posted in Monitoring Software on January 4, 2008 by HAL

Using Microsoft Powershell to send and receive info via the serial port was a suggestion I got from Robert at Intellipool (www.intellipool.se) when I was looking at creating a piece of hardware to integrate with Intellipool Network Monitor (INM) for the display of status information on monitored systems. Robert suggested Powershell as a platform that […]

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Powershell 2 CTP notes

This entry was posted in Software on January 4, 2008 by HAL

In the current state the CTP release has the additional commandlets – I noted while using for the coding for the Sentry project Get-PSBreakpoint Get-PSCallStack Remove-PSJob New-PSBreakpoint ConvertFrom-StringData Start-PSJob Disable-PSBreakpoint Import-LocalizedData Stop-PSJob Enable-PSBreakpoint Get-Runspace Wait-PSJob Remove-PSBreakpoint New-Runspace Invoke-WMIMethod Step-Into Remove-Runspace Remove-WMIObject Step-Out Get-PsJob Set-WMIInstance Step-Over Receive-PSJob Out-GridView

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A tale of two cities – well two books actually …

This entry was posted in Review on January 4, 2008 by HAL

During the recent holiday break I took a look through two books on Lotus Notes development – the first was Domino 7 Application Development published by Packt Publishing ISBN 978-1-904811-06-0 and the latter Lotus Notes Developer Toolbox from IBM Press ISBN 0-13-221448-2. The quality and number of books on Lotus Script and general Notes Domino […]

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