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7/27/2009 The Lightning ThiefFinally, we have a date – 12 Feb 2009. Whether we in South Africa will get to see it then will have to be seen, but at least we have a date to aim for. Loved the books, can’t wait to see what they do with them. Note: Cross posted from i dream in words.Permalink 6/16/2009 MerlinMay I confess a new addiction? When I started watching, I was adamant that I would not like the show, because of all the, you know, inaccuracies. I mean, really, Merlin younger than Arthur? Morganna wearing high-heeled shoes! The injustice of it all. But I continued watching, and, towards the end of the season I actually reached the point where I am thinking about the show when I am not watching. It probably helps a little that both Arthur and Merlin are kinda dreamy *grin*
Can’t wait for season 2 to start. Now, onto Robin Hood, which I believe is just as addictive. 6/14/2009 Lego Harry Potter
This looks awesome. I love the other Lego games on Xbox, and this one looks like it will be as much fun :) ohnotheydidnt: "The Time Traveler's Wife" TRAILERCan’t wait :) It looks like we are only going to see it November/December locally though. Note: Cross posted from electric bunnies.Permalink 5/17/2009 Another returning pleasure
When I got all excited after my previous post telling my husband which of our favourite shows were returning, he asked about the one show that has really grabbed him and that was sadly not on the list, Dexter (mostly because there were no Showtime shows on the list). From what we could previously see, the future of Dexter was in the balance, but I did a bit of googling last night, and it would seem the scales tipped the right way, because, thank goodness, Dexter is returning.
Note: Cross posted from electric bunnies. Permalink 5/16/2009 Fall TV cheat sheet: What's in? What's out?
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Note: Cross posted from electric bunnies. Permalink SpocknessYour results: You are Spock
5/2/2009 Darth Vader Toaster | GeekAlertsI wants one!!!!
5/1/2009 SCOM 2007: Quick and dirty agent health check scriptWe used a script in our MOM environment to notify us on an hourly basis of agents that have not reported in x amount of time. I modified this script this week for SCOM. The script retrieves the agents from the database that are marked as not available by SCOM, and then pings each of them. The ping status is included in the email. Option Explicit Const strMOMSQLServer = "" Const strMOMAdminEmail = "" Const StrFromEmail = "" Const strMailServer = "" Const strMailUser = "" Const strMailPass = "" Const strCustomer = "" Dim objMsg Dim objConf Dim objFlds Dim dataconn Dim rs Dim strBody Dim n Dim strPingStatus Dim objWMIService Dim colPings Dim objPing Dim strAgent Dim strIPAddress Dim colAttrib Dim colGroups set objMsg = CreateObject("CDO.Message") set objConf = CreateObject("CDO.Configuration") Set objFlds = objConf.Fields With objFlds .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = strMailServer .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = 2 .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = strMailUser .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = strMailPass .Update End With Set dataconn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") dataconn.Open "Provider=SQLNCLI;Server=" & strMOMSQLServer & ";Database=OperationsManager;Trusted_Connection=yes;" Set rs = dataconn.execute("SELECT BaseManagedEntity.Path, MT_Computer.NetworkName, MT_Computer.IPAddress, BaseManagedEntity.IsManaged," & _ "ManagedEntityAvailabilityView.IsAvailable, ManagedEntityAvailabilityView.AvailabilityLastModified " & _ "FROM BaseManagedEntity INNER JOIN MT_Computer ON BaseManagedEntity.BaseManagedEntityId = MT_Computer.BaseManagedEntityId " & _ "INNER JOIN ManagedEntityAvailabilityView ON BaseManagedEntity.BaseManagedEntityId = ManagedEntityAvailabilityView.BaseManagedEntityId " & _ "WHERE (BaseManagedEntity.IsManaged = 1) and (IsAvailable = 0) and (IPAddress is not null) " & _ "order by AvailabilityLastModified asc") strBody = "<p>The following agents have not reported in the past hour:</p>"& VbCrLf strBody = strBody & "<table border=""3"" bordercolor=""2A8588""><Caption><b><u>Daily Agent Health Check</b></u></Caption><tr><td><b>Server Name</b></td><td><b>Last contact</b></td><td><b>Ping Status</b></td></tr>"& VbCrLf n = 0 do while Not rs.eof strAgent = rs("NetworkName") strIPAddress = rs("IPAddress") PingStatus(strAgent) strBody = strBody & "<tr><td>" & strAgent & vbTab & "</td><td>" & rs("AvailabilityLastModified") & vbTab & "</td><td>" & strPingStatus & vbTab & "</td></tr>" & VbCrLf n = n + 1 rs.movenext Loop strBody = strBody & "<tr><td colspan=3 align=right><b>Total: "& n &"</b></td></tr></table>" With objMsg Set .Configuration = objConf .To = strMOMAdminEmail .From = StrFromEmail .Subject = strCustomer & " - Server Health check - " & Date() .HTMLBody = strBody .Fields.update .Send End With set dataconn = Nothing set objConf = Nothing set objMsg = Nothing Function PingStatus(strAgent) Set objWMIService = Nothing Set colPings = Nothing Set objPing = Nothing strPingStatus = "Unreachable" Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2") Set colPings = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("SELECT * FROM Win32_PingStatus WHERE Address = '" & strIPAddress & "'") For Each objPing in colPings Select Case objPing.StatusCode Case 0 strPingStatus = "Replied" Exit For Case Else strPingStatus = "<font color=""red"">Unreachable</a>" End Select Next Set objWMIService = Nothing Set colPings = Nothing Set objPing = Nothing End Function Update the following:
And, as always, no real commenting, so feel free to leave a comment should something not make sense. And if you have a better solution, please let me know! Note: Cross posted from electric bunnies. Permalink SCOM 2007 - Quick and dirty disk space scriptI wrote this script recently to extract the percentage free disk space on all servers in a SCOM environment, and email it. set dataconn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") dataconn.Open "Provider=SQLNCLI;Server=<SCOM Server>;Database=OperationsManagerDW;Trusted_Connection=yes;" set objMsg = CreateObject("CDO.Message") set objConf = CreateObject("CDO.Configuration") Set objFlds = objConf.Fields With objFlds .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "<mail server>" .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = 2 .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = "<mail user>" .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = "<mail pass>" .Update End With set rs = dataconn.execute("SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT Perf.vPerfDaily.DateTime, vManagedEntity.Path, dbo.vPerformanceRule.CounterName, " & _ "vPerformanceRuleInstance.InstanceName, Perf.vPerfDaily.MaxValue " & _ "FROM Perf.vPerfDaily INNER JOIN vManagedEntity ON Perf.vPerfDaily.ManagedEntityRowId = vManagedEntity.ManagedEntityRowId INNER JOIN " & _ "vPerformanceRuleInstance ON Perf.vPerfDaily.PerformanceRuleInstanceRowId = vPerformanceRuleInstance.PerformanceRuleInstanceRowId INNER JOIN " & _ "vPerformanceRule ON vPerformanceRuleInstance.RuleRowId = vPerformanceRule.RuleRowId WHERE (NOT (dbo.vManagedEntity.Path = N'nul')) " & _ "AND (Perf.vPerfDaily.DateTime = (SELECT MAX(DateTime) AS Expr1 FROM Perf.vPerfDaily AS vPerfDaily_1)) " & _ "AND (vPerformanceRule.ObjectName LIKE N'%logical%') AND (vPerformanceRule.CounterName LIKE N'% Free Space') " & _ "ORDER BY vManagedEntity.Path") if rs.eof then else strBody = "<p><font face=""Arial"" size=""1"">Percentage free space in environment.</font></p>"& vbCRLF strBody = strBody & "<table cellpadding=""1"" cellspacing=""0"" border=""0"" bordercolor=""#C0C0C0"">" & vbCRLF do while not rs.eof if not rs("path") = strComputer then strComputer = rs("path") strBody = strBody & "<tr><td colspan=""3"" bgcolor=""#C0C0C0""><font face=""Arial"" size=""1""><b>" & strComputer &"</b></font></td></tr>" & vbCRLF end if strDrive = rs("instancename") intValue = CInt(rs("maxvalue")) If intValue < 10 Then strValue = "<font face=""Arial"" size=""1"" color=""red""><b>" & intValue &"%</b></font>" Else strValue = "<font face=""Arial"" size=""1"" color=""black""><b>" & intValue &"%</b></font>" End if strBody = strBody & "<tr><td valign=""top""></td><td valign=""top""><font face=""Arial"" size=""1"">" & StrDrive & "</font></td>" & vbCRLF strBody = strBody & "<td valign=""top"">"& strValue &"</td>" & vbCRLF rs.movenext Loop strBody = strBody & "</table>" With objMsg Set .Configuration = objConf .To = "<email addresses, comma seperated>" .From = "<from address>" .Subject = "Daily Report - Disk space - " & Date() .HTMLBody = strBody .Fields.update .Send End With end if dataconn.close Update the fields between the <> and save as a .vbs file. Not a very elegant solution, but far quicker than having to configure the disk space report in SCOM reporting. And, as always, I suck at commenting, so feel free to leave a comment if you get stuck. SQL query was refined using a bored colleague at work with some time to bash through the DB and the following sources:
Note: Cross posted from electric bunnies. Permalink 4/10/2009 3 Apps I cannot live withoutJayo Mobile Extender Jayo is a plug-in for Outlook that allows you to connect your mobile phone to Outlook and download all your text messages to a PST file. It is compatible with most mobile phones, regardless of whether it uses Symbian or Windows Mobile as its platform. You can configure Jayo to completely delete all text messages from your phone on send and receive, including your sent items, and, since it stores it in a PST file, it is easy to then sort your messages as you wish. And, as I receive around 200 text messages on a daily basis (work), I simply cannot live without it. Tweetdeck I have tried a couple of Twitter clients, but this one is by far my favourite. It gives you the ability to view a variety of streams at the same time, filter in place, find friends, see your directs and replies and so much more. It is lightweight and cross-platform compatible, and, according to the website, you can also use it to follow your facebook friends (still looking for this feature). I don’t tweet much, but love watching the streams on a regular basis. And, while you’re at it, follow me on Twitter. GOM Media Player Free, lightweight media player that just plays anything and everything, without needing to worry about codecs. And, when you point it at a directory with logically named files, there is no need to create a playlist, as GOM will just automatically jump to the next file, making it so much easier to watch your favourite TV shows. It is also a fantastic DVD player. And one of my favourite features: the ability to fit the media to full screen without changing the aspect ratio. 4/7/2009 Zuma walks free
The NPA have dropped all charges (all 700-odd of them) against Jacob Zuma, not because he was found to be innocent, but because of an abuse of process by Leonard McCarthy. Full statement here. I must emphasise that this does not mean that Jacob Zuma is innocent. What this does mean that we will have a criminal for a president after the 22 April elections – only 15 days from now. This is a sad day for liberty, justice and democracy. From the DA website:
And from the ID website:
From the COPE website:
Is this the end of the Mandela beacon of hope? We can only hope and pray that the rest of the people in this beautiful country of ours will wake up before the elections and make the right decision to not put a criminal in power. Or at least to ensure the ANC does not have a 2/3 majority. But, after this decision, it looks like the road we find ourselves on was built by Robert Mugabe rather than Nelson Mandela.
Note: Cross posted from electric bunnies. Permalink 4/4/2009 WLW: xPollinate Part 2As per my previous post, I am testing out xPollinate for Windows Live Writer. To use the plug-in, you need to compose your blogpost in WLW and publish it to your first blog. Then, you click the xPollinate link in your plug-ins bar.
Configure the blog(s) you want to post to, select if you want a header or footer stating that it was cross posted from the original blog, and click OK. Your content will now be posted to all selected blogs. Note: The other blogs will not automatically open after posting like it normally does with WLW, but I have checked and posting appears to be instantaneous. Note: Cross posted from electric bunnies. Permalink WLW: xPollinateI am trying out a couple of new plugins for Windows Live Writer. Today’s plug-in is xPollinate
I am hoping it would help me cross post between Electric Bunnies and Sensory Overload, since the email posting doesn’t seem to work. Note: Cross posted from electric bunnies. Colin Hay - OverkillI can't get to sleep found here 3/21/2009 One month to goToday is exactly one month before the 2009 South African general elections – a date that is perceived by many in the country to be pivotal for our future. It is the day that will determine the direction our country is to move in almost more than the 1994 elections did. It is interesting to note how, this time round, the political parties are utilising the internet and especially social media sites. I have been reading the DA’s blog for quite some time, and follow Helen Zille on Twitter. The DA also have a supporter’s website and, I believe, a Facebook group. I once added Patricia de Lille’s blog to my reader, but as she only made one post in six or so months, I realised she was obviously far too busy with something else to, you know, say anything – or maybe she just hates blogs and social media in general. At least her party, the Independent Democrats, do have a fairly decent website where they even offer a free ringtone for your phone. COPE’s website is quite nice, attractive and easy to read. It also provides links to their YouTube channel, as well as their Flicker stream and Facebook group. This morning, I discovered the ANC’s YouTube channel. The ANC also has a semi-ok official website, as well as the MyANC website for supporters. According to the MyANC website, where you can also find the ANC’s blog, there is a Facebook group and a twitter stream too, but I have not quite yet found the links. The ANC also seems to have hired a couple of web jockeys to comment on forums and blogs with pro-ANC propaganda. This is especially true over at Thought Leader, where they manage to slip in some pro-ANC, pro-Zuma comment on non-political blogs. And I suspect one of their other jobs would be to maintain the Wikipedia page, because it is terribly biased and in keeping with the rest of the propaganda spread. One also simply has to look at the online supporters banner over at SAelections: According to this, the breakdown of online supporters is as follows:
SAElections is also on Twitter. 12/26/2008 MuzakNIcked from ExMi Instructions: Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question. NO CHEATING. How does the world see you? Will I have a happy life? What do my friends really think of me? What do people secretly think of me? How can I be happy? What should I do with my life? Will I ever have children? What is some good advice for me? How will I be remembered? What is my signature dancing song? What do I think my current theme song is? What does everyone else think my current theme song is? What song will play at my funeral? What type of men/women do you like? What is my day going to be like?
Hmmmm… the playlist gods are a little off today, it would seem. Although… some of the songs are rather appropriate. |
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