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November 21, 2008
Couple of Admins
Episode 76 - A Twaggle Of BatchesRecorded: November 19, 2008
Your Host: Steve Murawski, Keith Albright, and Rich Niemeier
Show Length: 58:06
This show is brought to you by Quest and Idera.
When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!
For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build [...]
Hacker Public Radio
Ep0234: Creating Identification Cards Part 1Get yer supplies at Poison ID .A simple laminator example is the ABC HeatSeal
Download the ogg version if you are a codec snob.
November 20, 2008
Hacker Public Radio
Ep0233: rox-filerLightweight apps, Deepgeek reviews \"rox-filer,\" a lightweight gui
file manager.
An excellent jumping off point on the web is this link...
http://polishlinux.org/apps/window-managers/rox-filer-a-lightweight-file-manager-that-simply-rocks/
The add-on for an integrated trash can can be found here...
http://www.skepticats.com/rox/trash.html
November 19, 2008
Hak.5
Hak5 - Session Hijacking and Virtualizing Servers
Session Hijacking with a Pineapple, Hamster and Ferret and cell phone? A free and easy way to virtualize physical servers! And is WPA Broken? Ikea clusters, screencasting, and canvas technolust.
Hacker Public Radio
Ep0232: EC Lug November 13th MeetingEC Lug November 13th Meeting
November 18, 2008
Hacker Public Radio
Ep0231: All Songs considered 1: Cause I am FreeCause I am Free by Chad from the linuxbasement
November 17, 2008
Lab Rats
Episode 147: Aaaaaaannnd...ACTION! Video Editing 101In episode 147, Andy and Sean take a look at what video editing is, and show off a few video editing programs. Cheryl takes a look at a DVD authoring package.
Hacker Public Radio
Ep0230: Escapism and Alternative ResourcesuberChic continues her Expressive programming series
November 16, 2008
Power Scripting
Episode 49 - PowerScripting Podcast - Susan BradleyToday we interview Susan Bradley, SBS MVP. We also bring you lots of new, tips and resources.
News
This segment is brought to you by Idera:
Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and
master? Checkout Idera's PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is
now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code
completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to www.idera.com/PodcastPeople to get your copy today!
Interview
This segment is brought to you by Quest Software
When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!
For
awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Questâs
PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build
commanding scripts that leverage PowerShellâs strength across the
enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.
Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.We had a great show with Susan Bradley. Go check her out at
sbsdiva.com.
Resources
What can you really do with PowerShell? With Admin Script Editor the question becomes what can't
you do with PowerShell? Besides all the advanced code generating tools
this is the only tool offering a true PowerShell Forms Designer. To
illustrate what can be done the guys at iTripoli created a
full-featured MP3/Podcast player written entirely in PowerShell and
delivered as a single script. Check it out at adminscripteditor.com/player. Tips
- Listener Steven wanted us to highlight how to build functions which
can be used in a pipeline. Hal wrote a script a while ago called Select-Alive which serves as a good example.
- Hal's bud Marcus thought 'find /i "stuff" *.*' was easy until he learned more about select-string
- Hal posted a script for creating RSS feeds from PowerShell
Challenge / Book Giveaway
- We still have a couple of books left. If you'd like to win a copy
of one of Lee Holmes books, simply leave us feedback on iTunes,Podcast Alley,
or on your own blog. We have four books to giveaway! Send an email to
feedback@powerscripting.net letting us know where to see your review.
- Time for the PowerShell Challenge update on db4o.
"While
trying to find a solution to a problem that popped up at work, I
stumbled upon an open-source dotnet object-oriented database called
Db4o. It is intended to be used as an embedded database in programs
where some persistent storage is needed, but instead of storing data in
related tables, it stores objects.
I've tried to access the functions via reflection, but I am just
learning Powershell and I don't know if this is the right technique. I
haven't gotten very far.
I was wondering if you or someone else who listens to the show could
take a look at it, and see if it can be useful as an object store in
powershell scripts."
![](\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Powerscripting/~4/455545211\")
November 14, 2008
Hacker Public Radio
Ep0229: CopyFight Vol 4 - SFL Podcast http://softwarefreedom.org/podcast
November 13, 2008
Couple of Admins
Episode 75 - Bunny EarsRecorded: November 12, 2008
Your Host: Keith Albright, Rich Niemeier, and Steve Murawski
Show Length: 58:47
This show is brought to you by Quest and Idera.
Automate your admin tasks FAST with Idera’s PowerShellPlus - THE Power Tool for PowerShell. Download a free 14-day trial at www.Idera.com/PowerShellPlus
Links:
MPC Corp files for bankruptcy
Cisco teams up with the Yankees
Top 100 [...]
Hacker Public Radio
Ep0228: nokiaKlaatu talks about setting up your Nokia N8*0 or N770 to be a robust computing platform, and the importance of doing so before you need it rather than waiting, like he does, until the last minute and scrambling to get all the packages you need installed. He concedes that he's failed to mention a lot of cool apps, so feel free to make suggestions in the comments.
Nokia N-series Repository Site
You can also download Klaatu's ogg version of this episode if you prefer ogg.
November 12, 2008
Hak.5
Hak5 - Paul's Flamingo
Darren demos optical character recognition and bar code lookups with GOCR. Shannon talks about a new way to organize your desktop with Microsoft Scalable Fabrics. Matt protects a public workstation with Windows Steady State. Plus USB Protocol Analyzers and Paul's pink flamingo.
Hacker Public Radio
Ep0227: Local SquidKen Fallon talks about Squid for local use
November 11, 2008
Hacker Public Radio
Ep0226: EC Lug November 11th meetingEC Lug november 11th meeting
November 10, 2008
Lab Rats
Episode 146: Protect Your Kids OnlineIn episode 146, the Internet can be a scary place, so Andy and Sean show off some ways to help protect your kids while they're online. Cheryl also shows off parental control software.
Hacker Public Radio
Ep0225: What's in my Toolkit part 2Cybercod talks about what's in his toolkit
November 09, 2008
Power Scripting
Episode 48 - PowerScripting Podcast - Lee HolmesToday we interview Lee Holmes, author of Windows PowerShell Cookbook and developer on the PowerShell team. And as usual weâve also got news, tips, resources and more.
News
When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!
For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Questâs PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShellâs strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.
Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.
Interview
Admin Script Editor (which recently received Windows IT Proâs top award) provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell. Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and more. Letâs not forget about the exclusive PowerShell forms designer. Come see for yourselfâ Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at AdminScriptEditor.com. We had a great interview with Lee Holmes, be sure to listen. You can find his blog at leeholmes.com/blog, and also check out his books!
Resources
This segment is brought to you by Idera:
Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Ideraâs PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to www.idera.com/PodcastPeople to get your copy today!
Gotcha
Challenge / Book Giveaway
- If youâd like to win a copy of one of Lee Holmes books, simply leave us feedback on iTunes, Podcast Alley, or on your own blog. We have four books to giveaway! Send an email to feedback@powerscripting.net letting us know where to see your review.
- Donât forget our challenge from two shows ago. If you submit a solution, weâll feature it on the show and the website, and youâll get a little something for your trouble. :) Here is the email from Dale which we forgot to put in last weekâs show notes:
âWhile trying to find a solution to a problem that popped up at work, I stumbled upon an open-source dotnet object-oriented database called Db4o. It is intended to be used as an embedded database in programs where some persistent storage is needed, but instead of storing data in related tables, it stores objects.
Iâve tried to access the functions via reflection, but I am just learning Powershell and I donât know if this is the right technique. I havenât gotten very far.
I was wondering if you or someone else who listens to the show could take a look at it, and see if it can be useful as an object store in powershell scripts.â
![](\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Powerscripting/~4/447989455\")
November 06, 2008
Tech Centric
TechCentric Season 2 Episode 2Will installs some mobile entertainment, Steve contributes two more helpful sites and gets to test a new product, Nick shows you how to save some time, and Jared recognizes the power of facial recognition, all in this episode of TechCentric.
Couple of Admins
Episode 74 - Not Just PancakesRecorded: November 5, 2008
Your Host: Keith Albright, Rich Niemeier, and Steve Murawski
Show Length: 1:02:56
This show is brought to you by Quest and Idera.
When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!
For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build [...]
November 05, 2008
Hak.5
Hak5 - Phreaknic 2008
The gang heads to Phreaknic in Nashville Tennessee and in Hak5 tradition brings you a sampling including interviews with Russell Butturini about his U3 Incident Response Tool, Adrian Crenchaw, aka Irongeek, about Keyloggers and other embedded hacking, Daniel Hooper about Software Defined Radio and GNU Radio, Eighty of Dual Core, Droops from Hacker Media, and more. Yeehaw!
November 03, 2008
Power Scripting
Episode 47 - PowerScripting Podcast - MVP Systems JAMSToday we have MVP Systems in the house to talk about JAMS. And we have a TON of news from PDC to report!
News
This segment is brought to you by Idera.
Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera's PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to www.idera.com/PodcastPeople to get your copy today!
Interview
The news is brought to you by iTripoli.
What can you really do with PowerShell? With Admin Script Editor the question becomes what can't you do with PowerShell? Besides all the advanced code generating tools this is the only tool offering a true PowerShell Forms Designer. To illustrate what can be done the guys at iTripoli created a full-featured MP3/Podcast player written entirely in PowerShell and delivered as a single script. Check it out at adminscripteditor.com/player. Today we are interviewing Scott and John from MVP Systems (
http://www.mvpsi.com) to talk about the PowerShell support in JAMS, their flagship batch scheduling product.Here are a few questions which were asked by our wonderful Ustream audience:
JAMS
- meson : ## What is the cost of the product or what is the customer base small/middle/enterprise/etc?
- http://www.mvpsi.com
- glnsize : ##are these task's or is there an agent
- trac3r726 : ## Any Reporting with charts for Management?
- glnsize : ## soon to be psremoting/wsman?
- ## any way to send jobs to run on server core, perhaps for speed/reliability?
SAAS
- rfoust : ## how does saasmonitor scale?
- rfoust : ## can it integrate w/ existing monitoring for a central dashboard?
- rfoust : ## can you do user-experience monitoring, like adding a jmeter script or something?
Resources
This segment is brought to you by Quest:
Quest Software is offering Powerscripting Podcast listeners a free copy of Jeffery Hicks new book, Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM from Sapien Press. Visit quest.com/powerscripting to register for your copy, before they run out. While youâre there download their free graphical user interface, script editor and Active Directory commands.
- 10 Cool Things to do with the Powershell (12 min video) - This demo shows some of the neat things you can do with PowerShell with regards to server administration. There are 10 demos you can run through ranging from simple queries for services to enumerating information in Active Directory. Some of the scripts use lists of computers, some prompt for a computername. Each script shows a different thing you can do with PowerShell to quickly create administration scripts.
- Precision Computing - Introduction to PowerShell Presentation
- PowerShell Code Repository - Compare-AD - A set of functions (and sample code using them) to create snapshots of user accounts in the current Active Directory domain save them in an xml file, and then compare live AD environment against that XML
- VMware: VI Toolkit (for Windows): Not Another Suite of Scripts!
- PoshRSS - is a web application for creating RSS feeds from PowerShell. The output of any PowerShell command/script is displayed as an RSS feed. The primary goal of PoshRSS is to provide system administrations the ability to leverage PowerShell + RSS to aggregate system information across many systems.
Challenge
Don't forget our challenge from last week. If you submit a solution, we'll feature it on the show and the website, and you'll get a little something for your trouble. :) Here is the email from Dale which we forgot to put in last week's show notes:
"While trying to find a solution to a problem that popped up at work, I stumbled upon an open-source dotnet object-oriented database called Db4o. It is intended to be used as an embedded database in programs where some persistent storage is needed, but instead of storing data in related tables, it stores objects.
I've tried to access the functions via reflection, but I am just learning Powershell and I don't know if this is the right technique. I haven't gotten very far.
I was wondering if you or someone else who listens to the show could take a look at it, and see if it can be useful as an object store in powershell scripts."
![](\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Powerscripting/~4/441694963\")
Lab Rats
Episode 145: Why's My Computer So Slooooooooowwwww?In episode 145, Andy and Sean look at the reasons that computers get slower over time, and show some quick and easy fixes that'll pep up your PC. To help even further, Cheryl shows off SpeedUpMyPC 2009.
October 31, 2008
Couple of Admins
Episode 73 - Linky To The WikiRecorded: October 29, 2008
Your Hosts: Keith Albright, Steve Murawski, and Rich Niemeier
Show Length: 56:05
This show is sponsored by Idera; Download free tools to help manage your Windows world at Idera.com.
Links mentioned in this show:
Host Intrusion Detection and File Integrity Monitoring
Osiris
Ossec
Samhain
Hack Half Hour
MS08-067 - Out-Of-Cycle Patch
Vista SP2 Beta rumors
574 PowerShell Cmdlets in Windows Server 2008 R2
OpenID [...]
October 30, 2008
Hacker Public Radio
Ep0218: Source Cast Ep 5orginal audio from sourcecast 3.14
October 29, 2008
Hak.5
Hak5 - HappyHakoween: Password Cracking Clusters, Remote Control Services, Wireshark Packet Filtering
Matt shows us how to turn anything into a service and provide a web frontend to manage them windows server, great for game server administration. Chris Gerling wraps up his three part series on Packet Sniffing with Wireshark techniques for packet filtering. Darren harnesses the CPU power of the HakHouse for good or evil to demonstrate cluster computing. Plus details on our Hak5 Halloween LAN Party!
Power Scripting
Episode 46 - PowerScripting Podcast - Chad Miller on SQL PSXToday we interview Chad Miller, author of the SQL PSX project. And of course we'll throw in our other usual goodies.
News
This segment is brought to you by Idera.
Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera's PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to www.idera.com/PodcastPeople to get your copy today.
Interview
Admin Script Editor (which recently received Windows IT Pro's top award) provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell. Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and more. Let's not forget about the exclusive PowerShell forms designer. Come see for yourself-- Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at AdminScriptEditor.com. We had a great interview with
Chad Miller, the author of the
SQL PSX project on Codeplex. Below are some of the questions which were submitted by Ustream viewers.
- glnsize : ## is powershell speading throughout his it dept?
- mwjcomputing : ##How much of his day to day operations are managed using Powershell?
- glnsize : ## have you looked at V2 script cmdlets?
- mwjcomputing : ## When dealing with Auditors, do they have any objection to Powershell being the tool to gather the security information?
- stahler : ## ADO.NET through PowerShell or SQLCMD through PowerShell?
- meson : ## Any comments on a SQL database PSProvider?
- mwjcomputing : ## When gathering security information, does Powershell cause any performance hit on the database?
- glnsize : ##from a DBA perspective what is powershell missing?
Resources
This segment is brought to you by Quest:
Quest Software is offering Powerscripting Podcast listeners a free copy of Jeffery Hicks new book, Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM from Sapien Press. Visit quest.com/powerscripting to register for your copy, before they run out. While youâre there download their free graphical user interface, script editor and Active Directory commands. ![](\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Powerscripting/~4/435461443\")
Hacker Public Radio
Ep0217: Linux Media and Home AutomationLinux Media and Home Automation by Brandon Beattie
Utah Open Source Podcast @ http://podcast.utos.org/
October 28, 2008
Hacker Public Radio
Ep0216: What's in your toolkit part 1threethirty talks about what he carries around in his backpack
October 27, 2008
Lab Rats
Episode 144: Geek Health and ErgonomicsIn episode 144, Andy and Sean are both on the ball as they share tips about how to keep your body healthy while you're using your computer. Meanwhile, Cheryl shows off a program to help you prevent Repetitive Stress Injury.
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Ep0234: Creating Identification Cards Part 1
