Install Latest 7-Zip with PowerShell
I still consider 7-zip to be essential on almost any workstation or machine I touch. This expedites the download and install.
I still consider 7-zip to be essential on almost any workstation or machine I touch. This expedites the download and install.
There are a handful of utilities I’ve always used and expect on Windows workstations and servers. This helps streamline that process.
I just needed a place to stash this and my GitHub didn’t seem appropriate. I make no guarantees that this will work and it’s only been tested on one system so far. I added the -Unique flag to the end of the download URL detection as indicated in a below message. (Again, nice catch!)
What to do with an unused truck box? I know! Make a prep station for grilling.
In learning about PowerShell and Web API’s, I figured I would start with something fun and easy.
Seventeen years. It’s been seventeen years since we lost my brother. He was just 21 years old and my life has never been the same since. Reflecting back on the intervening years, I realized that his way may have been the best way. Thanksgiving was just four days away that year and it was particularly…
As I write this, I’m currently in the hotel room preparing for a SolarWinds User Group in Frankfurt, Germany. I heard the news about Stan Lee’s passing at the dinner table surrounded by coworkers and friends when in London and got to thinking about how a single person can have such a large impact. I…
Let’s forget all about my previous step 3. For the sake of argument, step 3 is dead, long live step 3.1! Any script should be a living, breathing document which gets updated as needed. In this case, it was needed. Why would I burn such a good script to the ground? Well, to be blunt,…
In Part 1 of trying to tame my photos, I tried to wrangle my horribly organized photo library. My organization skills were lacking, like many, when it comes to photos. We take them, we import them or save them and then we… forget about them. That’s a problem when I’m trying to handle large amounts…