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Monday, July 28, 2008 6:00 PM

just silly

go to a place that does not exist in PowerShell c:;(get-psdrive c).CurrentLocation = '\I do Not exist' Enjoy, Greetings /\/\o\/\/
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Monday, January 21, 2008 7:29 PM

Posh Challenge Part 9

Level 10, This one was easy as I knew the answer to the sequence so could just look how to script it, still was a nice exercise , ( can you solve the Sequence's logic by only looking at the PowerShell script ? )   : you had to fill on this Sequence
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Monday, January 21, 2008 5:44 PM

PoSH Challenge part 8

And another update at the PoSH Challenge front, I'm arrived at Level 20 ,(had to cheat a bit at level 17 to arive there but more about that later ) so some more posts will follow ;-) I must say that the The Python Challenge . is really a great piece of
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:16 PM

PoSH Challenge part 7

This one was very challenging and got me puzzling for way to deep into the night morning last Friday, taking much more time as expected. The problem at hand at Level 8 did involve bzip2 , I started to find if there was a .NET library for this and found
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:40 PM

PoSH Challenge part 6

Level 7 is the first level in the the python challenge that involves working with bitmaps, before I give my answer to this level of the Python challenge I made a small PoSH version , * Reader Challenge * what text is hidden in the following picture ?
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Monday, January 14, 2008 5:00 PM

PoSH Challenge Part 5

For Level 6 I needed to get information from zip files not available from plain PowerShell, I decided to use a tool I had already handy 7Zip, that comes with a command line version (Instead of looking for a .NET DLL, you have to wait to level 8 for that
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Monday, January 14, 2008 4:23 PM

PoSH Challenge Part 4

I did another couple of Levels in the PoSH Challenge based on the python challenge and did a lot of fun things with PowerShell on the way, and some nice posts will follow in this series ;-) In this part I first will go on first with Level 5 from last
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Friday, January 11, 2008 10:05 PM

PoSH Challenge Part 3

I got stuck on Level 5 so I did a Google search : http://www.google.nl/search?hl=en&q=peak+hell+sounds+familiar&btnG=Google+Search&meta= again lucky the first entry got me going again without spoiling the rest, by naming the Python command
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Friday, January 11, 2008 7:49 PM

PoSH Challenge part 2 (Level 1-4 )

In former post PoSH Challenge part 1 I started this series, following the the python challenge site using PowerShell. Looks like I got Xaegr started : PowerShell Challenge ( Translated ) and Doug Finke got challenged : The Python (PowerShell?) Challenge
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:10 PM

PoSH Challenge part 1

I found this : the python challenge By michael Need a reason to play with Python? Try playing the 30+ levels of The Python Challenge . Solve the problem, move up to the next level. As a warming up for the : : The Winter Scripting Games I / you might have
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Thursday, December 27, 2007 5:49 PM

A PoSHy New Year part 1

Hope you all had a good X-mas let's count down to the new Year ( *edit* fixed the script I forgot the $r = new-object Random line , thanks to cert for noticing in the comments and to agoodb for providing the fix there ) : # NewYear1.ps1 # PoSHy New Year
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Sunday, December 16, 2007 5:24 PM

A PoSHy X-mas part two

And in this second part, let there be balls .. # Merry X-mas from PoSH part 2 # http://thePowerShellGuy.com Function Merry-Xmas { 1 .. 2 |% { $Peek = " ^ " $tree = " /|\" $i = 20 $pos = $host .ui.rawui.CursorPosition write-host - fore ' Red ' ( $peek
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Sunday, December 16, 2007 4:13 PM

A PoSHy X-mas part one

First we need a PoSHy tree : $Peek = " ^ " $tree = "/|\" $i = 20 . { write-host -fore 'green' ($peek.PadLeft($i -1).PadRight(36) * 2) write-host -fore 'green' ($tree.PadLeft($i -1).PadRight(36) * 2) 1..16 |% { $tree = $tree -replace "/(.*)\\",'//$1\\'
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 3:45 PM

I'm innocent, x0n put me up to this

if a "friend" at works keeps his PC unlocked the following command could couse some fun ac $profile 'sv ^ -op ReadOnly' *Edit* If you think this should not be possible you can vote on x0n's bugreport here : system variables should be protected against
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:47 AM

Brain Teaser: Use PowerShell to Solve This Math Word Puzzle

I came across this post, Brain Teaser: Solve This Math Word Puzzle and the following Puzzle is given there where the Letters need to be replaced by Numbers to make the expression correct : Each letter stands for a 1-digit number. No two letters may stand
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