Yammer SHOULD be in the Chrome App Store but isn’t. Tell them so.
In the meantime, you can add them into your own personal apps by following these 5 simple steps:
Shay Levy did an excellent PowerShellization of ‘netstat’ (link) on his blog back in February. JRich also had an excellent take on implementing NetStat in PowerShell (link). There is also a simple one-liner [net.NetworkInformation.IPGlobalProperties]::GetIPGlobalProperties().GetActiveTcpConnections() that will get you Tcp connection information without the process information but IMHO the info provided is practically useless in most real world scenarios without the process info.
One can argue over which solution is more PowerShellicous, “inlining c#” or “scraping cmd output”. Meanwhile while that flame war is happening I’ll be over here extending either of these solutions because PowerShell is awesome like that. Here I added filtering to the Shay’s solution. Behold:
PS C:\Users\ben> Get-NetworkStatistics skype | ft -AutoSize Protocol LocalAddress LocalPort RemoteAddress RemotePort State ProcessName PID -------- ------------ --------- ------------- ---------- ----- ----------- --- TCP 0.0.0.0 443 0.0.0.0 0 LISTENING Skype 4068 TCP 0.0.0.0 9841 0.0.0.0 0 LISTENING Skype 4068 PS C:\Users\ben> Get-NetworkStatistics -ProcessId 3368 Protocol : TCP LocalAddress : 192.168.10.115 LocalPort : 49899 RemoteAddress : 204.152.18.196 RemotePort : 443 State : ESTABLISHED ProcessName : chrome PID : 3368
Here’s the source:
Change the welcome background image in Windows7:
Set this key value to 1: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background\OEMBackground
Overwriting this file: %windir%\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds\backgroundDefault.jpg
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I really like the @PowerTip blog series but I find myself wanting to talk back with more than 120 characters. Please enable comments @PowerTip. Comments are enabled for authenticated users. In the meantime, I’ll blog my comments.
function Get-PSOwner($searchString)
{
$foundProcess = ps $searchString
if($foundProcess -eq $null) { return; }
gwmi Win32_Process -Filter ("Handle={0}" -f $foundProcess.id ) |
% { Add-Member `
-InputObject $_ `
-MemberType NoteProperty `
-Name Owner `
-Value ($_.GetOwner().User) `
-PassThru } |
select Name, Handle, Owner
}
The four minor changes I made to the @PowerTip script are: 1) it’s functionized, 2) the input is a search string for process (wildcards accepted), 3) it spits out the correct errors if the process can’t be found, and 4) the process handle is added to the results.
Download the script here: http://bitbucket.org/xcud/powershell-snippets/src/tip/Get-PSOwner.psm1
(tongue set firmly in cheek)
I happened upon Dana Merrick’s blog entry with a ruby script that retrieves an order status from dominos. In the spirit of “anything you can do I can do better” i threw this Psh equivalent together and submitted it to PoshCode.org. It’s phenomenally simple. It makes a request to the Dominos SOAP order status service and selects and displays the order status nodes if they exist.
function Get-DominosOrderStatus($pn) {
[xml]$content = (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString(
"http://trkweb.dominos.com/orderstorage/GetTrackerData?Phone=$pn");
$statii = select-xml -xml @($content) `
-Namespace @{dominos="http://www.dominos.com/message/"} `
-XPath descendant::dominos:OrderStatus
if($statii.Count -gt 0) { $statii | %{ $_.Node } }
else { "No orders" }
}
Sample Output:
Version : 1.3 OrderAsOfTime : 2008-06-04T16:40:48 StoreAsOfTime : 2008-06-04T16:44:55 StoreID : 3189 OrderID : 2008-06-04#73694 Phone : 3145551234 ServiceMethod : Delivery AdvancedOrderTime : OrderDescription : 2 Small(10") Hand Tossed Pizza OrderTakeCompleteTime : 2008-06-04T16:27:52 TakeTimeSecs : 0 CsrID : Power CsrName : OrderSourceCode : Web OrderStatus : Out the Door StartTime : 2008-06-04T16:27:52 MakeTimeSecs : 237 OvenTime : 2008-06-04T16:31:49 OvenTimeSecs : 360 RackTime : 2008-06-04T16:37:49 RackTimeSecs : 179 RouteTime : 2008-06-04T16:40:48 DriverID : 0818 DriverName : Edna OrderDeliveryTimeSecs : DeliveryTime : OrderKey : 1dRprcnzmWxaOXvlzj06OlFdzuexcIC/ ManagerID : 5560 ManagerName : Danillo #text : Out the Door
You can download it here: http://bitbucket.org/xcud/powershell-snippets/src/tip/Get-DominosOrderStatus.psm1
Inspired by Chad Miller’s work MSChart I threw this ANSI barchart module together:
#
# Out-AnsiGraph.psm1
# Author: xcud
# History:
# v0.1 September 21, 2009 initial version
#
# PS Example> ps | select -first 5 | sort -property VM |
# Out-AnsiGraph ProcessName, VM
# AEADISRV ███ 14508032
# audiodg █████████ 50757632
# conhost █████████████ 73740288
# AppleMobileDeviceService ████████████████ 92061696
# btdna █████████████████████ 126443520
#
function Out-AnsiGraph($Parameter1=$null) {
BEGIN {
$q = new-object Collections.queue
$max = 0; $namewidth = 0;
}
PROCESS {
if($_) {
$name = $_.($Parameter1[0]);
$val = $_.($Parameter1[1])
if($max -lt $val) { $max = $val}
if($namewidth -lt $name.length) {
$namewidth = $name.length }
$q.enqueue(@($name, $val))
}
}
END {
$q | %{
$graph = ""; 0..($_[1]/$max*20) |
%{ $graph += "█" }
$name = "{0,$namewidth}" -f $_[0]
"$name $graph " + $_[1]
}
}
}
Export-ModuleMember Out-AnsiGraph
Download the script here: http://bitbucket.org/xcud/powershell-snippets/src/tip/Out-AnsiGraph.psm1
Read Chad Miller’s blog entry on using MSChart from PowerShell. This is another great visualization extension for PowerShell. To make it work:
The easiest way to enable it is to import the library with a call to ‘Import-Module’. Now run one of the samples:
If you see this error or one like it it’s an easy fix. Edit the lib and edit the input param list in the function “New-Chart” from this:
To this:
Voila. Re-import the module and the error is gone. The only item on my wish list for this lib is that it attempt to infer the X and Y fields. A call like this, for example, should be able to (but can’t) infer that xField is ‘name’ and yField is ‘ws’:
It makes eye-candy. Check this one out. Grab the top 5 memory consuming processes and push them into a relative pie chart that auto-updates itself.
If you’re trying to use Subversion from the PowerShell command line and you can’t get around this error message:
Set your SVN_EDITOR preference with this command (substituting “type” for your preferred editor):
Vacation pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/benvierck/sets/72157621985515336/
I’m not completely back. i have not quite completed re-entry back into my daily work habits. I was a bit gobsmacked at my encounter with the ocean and our history. The vastness of the ocean which it seems to me could swallow us all up in an instant or two and not mind one bit on the one hand. The encounters with historical peoples whose very daily existence represented more adventure than I’ll know in a lifetime are on the other hand.
Tomorrow i’ll shove this aside and do some work on the build process to make this last push to VMWord more productive and I’ll get the next build ready to go for a Monday release.