Family, Cool Stuff and Assorted Geekery; the finer things in life. Updated when I have something interesting to write :)
There’s nothing like a LAN Party. Being able to get together, meet your friends face-to-face and then shoot them is brilliant fun. I’ve been going to these since the second ever Insomnia, though now we all pile around someone’s house rather than a large room in Swindon Football Club.
The games we’re currently playing at LANs are here.
Or, “How badly can you mess up in the first couple of weeks in a new job”?
That said, it could have been a lot worse. Full gory details below the line.
Continue reading “Tales from IT : The Story of the Little IT Boy”
The 19th was a double Fez-day. On the one hand, well, FRIDAY. But also Wasteland 2 was finally released, two and half years after it was hit by the Kickstarter money-cannon.
It was the first game I Kickstarted and I’ve been revving up on pure excitement as the release got closer. And now I have it! Installed! Wasteland 2!
Is it brilliant? Is it? Is it brilliant?
Another quick one-liner I’ve just figured out. This will get the 20 largest folders in the mailbox sorted into descending order of size. There was a big gotcha I needed to figure out which I go into after the break.
Continue reading “PowerShell: Get Largest Mailbox Folders, One-Line Command”
I mentioned in the last part that you should be able to get the sizes of sub-folders within a folder with Measure-Object and Group-Object. So I had a bit of a tinker as an intellectual exercise and I worked up a one-liner that works. Ish. As I mentioned previously, this won’t automatically add the size of each sub-folder to the parent folder (so in the results you’d get C:\Source as 10 KB and C:\Source\Sub as 100 MB, for example).
Still, it was pretty interesting to hack it together. The command and a brief explanation follows.
Continue reading “PowerShell : Get Folder Size on Disk, One-Line Command”
Following on from the “What is Recursion?” post it’s time for a concrete example with PowerShell; a script to calculate the sizes of all sub-folders within a folder. The script (and description) follows.
Continue reading “Recursion in PowerShell : Getting the Size of Folders on a Hard Disk”
Hi. I meant to go into this in a bit more detail after using it in some of my scripts. Recursion is a pretty interesting idea and it’s used quite a bit in scripting. I’ll describe it below and then I’ll jump into an example using PowerShell in the next post.
Marvel Heroes 2015 (or previously, Marvel Heroes Online) has just passed it’s first year 
anniversary. I started playing at release and have jumped back into it on-and-off throughout that year. Marvel Heroes has undergone some massive changes since its release and it’s probably my favourite ARGP; I loved Diablo 3 and Path of Exile but Marvel Heroes just keeps luring me back.
Of course this may not be the most balanced description because I could hypothetically be a massive comics / Marvel fanboy. This may have some small grain of truth but I’ll be objective and rational as much as possible.
So read on to find out about Marvel Heroes 2015; why it’s totally brilliant and why you should be playing it right now instead of doing other productive things with your life.
The final functions are done (in the last part) now it’s just the main body of the script. This will bring all the code together and produce the output we want. The full script can be found here.
Continue reading “Powershell Archiving Script, Part 8 (Final Part)”
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