2024-11-14: Songs I've fiscovered this week Ali Baba - The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra - xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx …
2024-09-04: I asked Alexa to play the Sisters of Mercy this morning (yes….I’m an aged Goth, I …
2024-09-04: I asked Alexa to play the Sisters of Mercy this morning (yes….I’m an aged Goth, I …
2024-08-30: This cleans up ‘terraform plan’ output as rendered in Azure Devops if you copy it into …
2024-04-04: title: “veeam doesn’t put ‘Database was restored’ in the errorlog” …
2024-03-21: Pre-Pogues years: 1977–1982 The future members of the Pogues first met when MacGowan (vocals), Peter “Spider” Stacy …
2024-03-21: Some other stuff The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish[a] Celtic punk band fronted by Shane …
2024-03-21: some text $Arguments foreach ($A in $Arguments) {$A} foreach ($A in $Arguments) {$A[3]} foreach ($A …
2024-02-22: I’ve watched a couple of new-ish films recently in which the biggest star gets killed off …
2024-02-22: "Cannot dot-source this command because it was defined in a different language mode. To invoke this command without importing its contents, omit the '.' operator." after upgrade to Windows 11 After my laptop was upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 I got the following when I tried to do …
2024-02-22: This is the standard bit $Token = 'whatever-the-token-is' | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText …
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2013-07-03: Problem: 'Access is denied. [0x80070005]' when changing sql server agent login Trying to change the sql server agent to run as a non-admin user, I couldn’t get Sql Server …
2009-03-01: Convert an html table to excel spreadsheet A quick and dirty post for a quick and dirty technique that I used to get the Oracle CPU Database …
2007-12-07: Determining which CPUs have been applied The question of how to determine which CPUs have been applied to a database came up at a couple of …
2007-04-18: DOS equivalent to unix find -name -print I’m planning to type up a couple of DOS and Windows equivalents of some of my most used unix …
2007-03-29: Bookmarking Oracle Metalink in IE or Firefox This may well be obvious, but…. If you try and save the link to a Metalink note whilst you …
2007-02-20: DOS script to output contents of latest file matching a given spec Some of our batch jobs write log information to standard output. Others create dated log files. Our …
2006-08-31: Changing the DOS prompt I’m mucking about with VSS from the command line. To do this you need to be in the VSS …
2005-10-06: Disabling/Enabling wsh Here are instructions for disabling wsh. This is particularly used by DBAs to run RDA (Remote …
2005-04-12: BJS Jobs going into 'Awaiting Execution' state BJS is the scheduling tool we use on our Windows servers. Its produced by Camellia Software: …