http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/index.html Occasionally I produce something useful or discover a site of value. I have always thought that a "STUFF" page of these things might be of interest to others. So I have started recording some of these gems here Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:00:00 GMT en http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/exiftool_script.html A consistant way to insert metadata into images taken on my digital camera using a Powershell script and the ExifTool by Phil Harvey. Sun, 28 Dec 2009 14:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/exiftool_script.html http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/randomlyselect_fromlist.html This process selects a rows of data for a number of times, determined by the user. In this way it is possible for instance to randomly select 40 names out of a list of several hundred Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/randomlyselect_fromlist.html http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/memoryusage.html This script informs decisions about when to take action on rebuilding workstations. It also demonstrates how Powershell can email the content of log files... Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/memoryusage.html http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/hostupdate.html This script makes it easy! Point it to a directory where a list of the workstations exists (in a .dat file) and where any number of .ps1 and/or .cmd scripts exist (the scripts that will actually do the updating) and it is all over Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/hostupdate.html http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/get_inventory.html View the output from my current home computer. I really like the way the script returns the ID value of the processor and the serial number from the BIOS Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/get_inventory.html http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/get_inventoryDB.html I have occassionally thought that it would be great to also be able to write some or all of the data back to a MySQL database. Recently I played around with this idea and managed to achieve what I thought was a reasonable result. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/get_inventory.html http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/get_inventorysearch.html Allowing us to find discrete information across collected HTML files. Supporting the Powershell inventory process Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/get_inventorysearch.html http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/timekeeper.html TimeKeeper is a .NET application that acts as a policeman or referee on users of worktations Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/timekeeper.html http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/convert_datetime.html Converting Unix date/time stamps in VB or VBA for MS Access Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/convert_datetime.html http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/ngcombine.html Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/ngcombine.html http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/index.html The Google Maps API lets you embed or "mashup" a Google Map into your own web page. Uses a JavaScript API supplied by Google Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/index.html http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/results.html Google Coop lets you filter Googles search index so that it can be used to search web sites determined by an xml file. The web site(s) selected by the xml file can be multiple URL's, a single URL site or a single directory in a site. To see this working go to Federated Search. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/results.html http://kadaitcha.cx/performance.html There are hundreds of XP tweaks, but you only need the ones in this site to obtain a significant performance improvement. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://kadaitcha.cx/performance.html http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/win_vmware.html I have an issue with the way VMware seems to reserve memory on my Windows XP box even if the virtual machines are not running. See my Powershell solution... Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/win_vmware.html http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/searchengine.html I then constructed a short PHP script to search the search field and return the results. I was surprised at how efficiently this process worked for our needs and decided that the basic code to search a single field MySQL database might be of value to others. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newgrove.co.nz/stuff/searchengine.html http://librarycogs.blogspot.com A Blog that is library technology based, that I contribute to... Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://librarycogs.blogspot.com