Archive for April, 2008

The Meaning of My Blog Name

Friday, April 25th, 2008

If you are reading my blog then you might be wondering what the importance of the name of String Theory. Before you guess, No I am not talking about strings in the computing sense. I am talking about strings in the Physics' Unified Field Theory sense.  I majored in ...

My Technical Library

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

  In response to Steven Murawski's blog post, here are the books currently in my library in no particular order. Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, ...

XenServer VM PowerShell Cmdlet

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

  Citrix has released some cmdlets for use with their XenServer virtualization product. No where near as powerful as VMWare's cmdlets, but at least its a start. You can check them out and get more information at the URL below. http://community.citrix.com/display/cdn/XenServe+VM+PowerShell+CmdLet

Setting PowerShell Execution Policy Remotely

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

  So, you have seen the light and want to use PowerShell for all your daily tasks. By default the PowerShell execution policy is set to Restricted, meaning that PowerShell does not load configuration files and does not run scripts. You will have to change the execution policy for any ...

Bitwise Operators

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Today we will take a look at the Bitwise Operators in Windows PowerShell and how you can manipulate them for your needs.  First we will get some insight into the enumeration. Let's begin by looking at the values for the [System.IO.FileAttributes] enumeration which provides attributes for files and directories. ...

PowerScripting Podcast - Episode 22 “The One About Brandon”

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Hal and Jonathan have done it again. 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. Go pick up the podcast at http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/.