Adventures in scripting AWS
Not entirely sure why I’ve started looking into AWS (altho it might be slightly related to work). So what am I trying to achieve. I want to launch an EC2 virtual machine from my command line on my Mac OS X Yosemite box.
Programming Test 2: Count backwards from 100 to 1
Starting your script with: for (var i=0 … Complete the code so that it prints out the numbers 100 to 1. You have 10 minutes.
Programming Test 1: Fizz Buzz
Hopefully I’ve not misinterpreted the challenge here. Count to 100, if the number is divisible by three, output Fizz, if divisible by five, output Buzz. If its Divisible by 5 and 3, FizzBuzz!
Send Ctrl+Alt+Del to a RDP session within an RDP Session
Ctrl+Alt+Delete… one of the most basic shortcuts everyone knows… If you open up an RDP session you can’t use Ctrl+Alt+Delete, as the command would just be effective on the main PC, and not your RDP session. So you’d use Ctrl+Alt+End. This is great if you only going into a single RDP session, but what do… Read More »
Enable Mapping to \\Hostname\C$ Share on Windows 7 or Vista
The hidden administrator C$ share that is built into Windows file sharing, can’t be used in Windows 7 or Vista. The reason this doesn’t work is because of UAC (User Account Control). By default Vista doesn’t allow UAC elevation over the network with a local user account. There’s a registry key that we can use… Read More »
Powershell Script to Email a Disk Usage Report
I use a couple of different technologies to store large quantites of data on my “server” at home, namely Storage Pools combined with Data Deduplication on Windows Server 2012 R2. Up to a couple of weeks ago it was working great but I’ve started to notice oddities which couldn’t really be explained… So I decided… Read More »