Posts made by Martin9700

I'm trying to imagine how well this would go down here in the States.......

Should look into using Send-MailMessage for email. It's a lot easier to work with.

@g.jacobse said:

0x01d0b26dc6a4a844

That value isn't a .NET date/time value so Get-Date won't be able to process it properly (hence the year 0415). So I tried this: http://superuser.com/questions/398983/how-do-i-decode-the-faulting-application-start-time-in-a-windows-event-log-ent

(get-date "01/01/1601").AddSeconds(0x01d0b26dc6a4a844 / 10E+6)

And got:

Monday, June 29, 2015 1:16:14 PM

Seems much better!

@scottalanmiller said:

@Martin9700 said:

Did it help me get my first job in IT? Yes. I also wasn't 10's of thousands of dollars in debt so I'd say the program worked.

Personally I would defined "worked" only if it was able to get you into your first job sooner than an alternative approach. What if you had been teaching yourself and job hunting during the time you were in college.... could you have gotten a job sooner that way? People who go to college them get a job always say that the job helped them to get that first job, and sometimes surely that is true. But they rarely consider the cost of lost opportunity and wonder if they had not gone to college if that would have helped them to get a different first job sooner.

Well, kind of difficult to measure that one, tbh. But in those days getting into mainframe operations required you know some things about mainframes. It wasn't an industry that said, gee you can fix a PC (who had PC's?) I'll give you a shot. It was just a different time.

@scottalanmiller

But they are useful as a hiring manager as I don't speculate about college, I actually went, and I know when someone brags about having a degree that their bar for success is so low that they are immediately disqualified.

This seems really limiting. There's so many variables here that making a blanket statement like this is shooting yourself in the foot. What about the kids who are forced to go to college by their parents? Want about dumbshits that learned better after they got older? What about people who may actually agree with your (in whole or part) and include it on their resume because that's just how it's done?

But to get back on topic, I never went to a U, and just went to a vocational school (now defunct). Does it help me now? No. Did it help me get my first job in IT? Yes. I also wasn't 10's of thousands of dollars in debt so I'd say the program worked.

I use the Sculpt--probably about 3 weeks now--and for the most part it's great. I got the mouse that came with it and I highly recommend against getting it. It's rounded and actually forces you to bend your wrist which is what you shouldn't be doing! Ended up going back to my Logitech and it's fine.

The separate number pad sucks, but it does keep your mouse closer to the keyboard which is also highly recommended. I don't use the number pad as much as I used to but I am finding myself using it more and more as I get used to the setup.

Overall it's a good keyboard and I haven't had any hand pain since going to it, though I had some when I first got it and was adjusting to it.

@scottalanmiller said:

Doesn't look too exciting as an update.

The guys own commentary is kind of amusing.

A post he hasn't written yet has been deleted.

Might find this useful:
http://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/3048-find-vm-locate-a-vm-in-multiple-vcenter-installations

Not sure I've used any of that in the past year... except maybe the pen, and even that was briefly. Could use a better Keyboard, that's true. Microsoft Sculpt keyboard looks cool, but I don't like the detached number pad.

My experience has been that the more time I invest in PowerShell the more time it gives back to me. I've been building up a suite of tools to do common tasks and it has saved me a TON of time.

So I get it, sometimes you have to do what you have to. But most of the time there are pockets of free time, and over time, you'll start getting those pockets back plus interest!!

7 right now in Boston. Seven. SEVEN. Hard to breath it and the cold hurts your legs through your pants. Why do I live where the air hurts my whole body?

@Bill-Kindle said:

This book:

http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Windows-PowerShell-Month-Lunches/dp/1617291080

This is a great book and seems like most of the PowerShell community considers it the go to book for PowerShell.

Don't learn PowerShell... do PowerShell.

Pick a week, and force yourself to use PowerShell for all your daily tasks (within reason, don't set NTFS permissions with PowerShell, that sucks). But need to reset a user's password? PowerShell. Find out if they're locked out? PowerShell. That kind of thing.

I rarely open Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) anymore. I can do everything faster from the command line.

Port parameter wasn't introduced until PowerShell 3.0, so you'll need to make sure you're on at a minimum of that before this will work. PowerShell 4.0 is the current version and 5.0 is coming out SOON. So if you're still on 2.0, upgrade now!

Back to the shack.

@Dashrender said:

@Martin9700 said:

Are you not allowed to post links to SW? Not sure why you're being so cagey.

ML site admins have requested that users not post links to SW.

Ahhhhh.... ok. Good to know.

Are you not allowed to post links to SW? Not sure why you're being so cagey.

@scottalanmiller said:

I wonder (honestly wonder) how much people come and read existing content versus only reading the current content (top 20 topics or whatever.) Searching turns up old ones, but I think that people visiting the site will mostly look at current discussions.

Very tough road, agreed. A community like PowerShell.org is not a vendor based platform (they don't sell anything) but centered around a new technology. Of course, when that technology is replaced the need for the community will go away then too. It's also had some powerful personalities behind it that helped establish it.

ML doesn't have that, and by staying agnostic there's no reason a Google search would ever pull anything up. The lack of any content doesn't help (if you have nothing to trigger a successful search... well... you get it). Content is a fickle thing, and sometimes it just drives a reason to visit and it's a one time thing. I get over 600+ visits a day on my blog (which I think is pretty good considering I do very little self promotion) and almost all of it is Google hits on 4 or 5 articles that people are interested in.

So how do you get people to visit in the first place? Content. Even if it's fleeting the hope is that SOME of that traffic might create an account and stick around, until you hit that amazing turnover point. Might want to consider adding a blogging component and letting a few of the community SME's post an article or two to try and drive up hits and maybe begin to build the perception that this is a place to seek answers.

Just thoughts....

Chicken and egg, I think. Can't get traffic without content and can't get content without traffic. Why would anyone post here? If you're looking for a place to ask your question you want a place that looks active and inviting with active SME's. Most forum's get a leg up because they leverage a product, Spiceworks, early PowerShell, etc. something ML lacks.

It's going to be a really tough road.