Every time I came home, I wondered what was this thing nailed to the wall in the hall of my building.
I couldn't anything written on it either. And I didn't want to take it off to read the back of it.
All I could make out of it was this logo on it.
Enter "Google Goggles"
Install it on your Android phone, then snap a picture with Google Goggles.
That's how I found out that this was some kind of Ubiquiti Wifi bridge. Just by taking a picture of the logo.
I opened a maintenance closet in the staircase, and found a Power-over-ethernet module to power this device, along with an ethernet cable running one floor up.
Someone running a big wifi network around here ;-)
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
SCCM : converting programs to Windows 7
This is a VBS program I wrote for a customer, who has a SCCM 2007 R2 environment.
They had over 400 programs in various packages, and they weren't sure if all of them would run under Windows 7.
Visually, we had to make sure this box was ticked.
They had over 400 programs in various packages, and they weren't sure if all of them would run under Windows 7.
After a little digging in the SCCM SDK (link), and a script from Stuart James, the following will go through ALL programs in ALL packages. If a program is not set to "Run on all platforms", we add that it can run on "All x86 Windows 7"
It outputs changes with comma separated values (csv) so you can send this to a file and dress it up nice in Excel for your boss :-)
'===================================== 'SetRunFromTS - Sets all programs to be able to run in Windows 7 x86 'Author: Patrick Paumier / Stuart James ' 'Requirements: Change line 22 to connect to your site server ' 'Usage: CScript xxx.vbs or double click '===================================== 'Check we're using CScript and if not then relaunch If "CSCRIPT.EXE" <> UCase(Right(WScript.Fullname, 11)) Then Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Run "CSCRIPT.EXE /nologo " & WScript.ScriptFullName Wscript.Quit End If ' Setup a connection to the local provider. Set swbemLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") Set swbemServices= swbemLocator.ConnectServer("MY-SCCM-SERVER", "root\sms") Set providerLoc = swbemServices.InstancesOf("SMS_ProviderLocation") For Each Location In providerLoc If location.ProviderForLocalSite = True Then Set swbemServices = swbemLocator.ConnectServer(Location.Machine, "root\sms\site_" + Location.SiteCode) Exit For End If Next 'Main call QueryPrograms swbemServices Sub QueryPrograms(connection) On Error Resume next Dim programs 'Dim program ' Run the query. Set programs = connection.ExecQuery("Select * From SMS_Program WHERE PackageID='TDE0024F'") If Err.Number<>0 Then Wscript.Echo "Couldn't get programs" Wscript.Quit End If For Each program In programs ModifyProgram connection,program.PackageID, program.ProgramName Next If programs.Count=0 Then Wscript.Echo "No packages found" End If End Sub Sub ModifyProgram (connection, existingPackageID, existingProgramName) ' Build a query to get the specified package. packageQuery = "SMS_Package.PackageID='" & existingPackageID & "'" ' Run the query to get the package. Set package = connection.Get(packageQuery) ' Output package name and ID. wscript.echo VBCrLf 'New Line Wscript.StdOut.Write package.PackageID & "," 'Package ID Wscript.StdOut.Write package.Name & "," 'Package Name ' Build a query to get the programs for the package. programQuery = "SELECT * FROM SMS_Program WHERE PackageID='" & existingPackageID & "'" ' Run the query to get the programs. Set allProgramsForPackage = connection.ExecQuery(programQuery, , wbemFlagForwardOnly Or wbemFlagReturnImmediately) 'The query returns a collection of program objects that needs to be enumerated. For Each program In allProgramsForPackage If program.ProgramName = existingProgramName Then 'Get all program object properties (in this case we specifically need some lazy properties). programPath = program.Put_ Set program = connection.Get(programPath) ' Output the program name Wscript.StdOut.Write program.ProgramName & "," ' Program Name Wscript.StdOut.Write program.ProgramFlags & "," 'Program Flags If program.ProgramFlags AND 2^27 Then Wscript.StdOut.Write "OK for all platforms" Else ' RUN_ON_SPECIFIED_PLATFORMS is set. Win7OK = FALSE For Each myOS in program.SupportedOperatingSystems osver = Left(myOS.MinVersion,3) If osver="6.1" And myOS.Platform="I386" Then Wscript.StdOut.Write "OK for Windows 7" ' Name: " & myOS.Name & " MinVersion: "& myOS.MinVersion & " MaxVersion: " & myOS.MaxVersion & " Platform: " & myOS.Platform Win7OK = TRUE Exit For End If Next If Win7OK = FALSE Then 'Add Windows 7 32bit platform ' Create Set tempSupportedPlatform = connection.Get("SMS_OS_Details").SpawnInstance_ ' Populate tempSupportedPlatform values. tempSupportedPlatform.MaxVersion = "6.10.9999.9999" tempSupportedPlatform.MinVersion = "6.10.0000.0" tempSupportedPlatform.Name = "Win NT" tempSupportedPlatform.Platform = "I386" ' Get the array of supported operating systems. tempSupportedPlatformsArray = program.SupportedOperatingSystems ' Add the new supported platform values (object) to the temporary array. ReDim Preserve tempSupportedPlatformsArray (Ubound(tempSupportedPlatformsArray) + 1) Set tempSupportedPlatformsArray(Ubound(tempSupportedPlatformsArray)) = tempSupportedPlatform ' Replace the SupportedOperatingSystems object array with the new updated array. program.SupportedOperatingSystems = tempSupportedPlatformsArray ' Save the program. program.Put_ ' Output success message. Wscript.StdOut.Write "Added Win7" End If End If End If Next End Sub
Saturday, September 11, 2010
SyntaxHighlighter with Blogger
I've been away from Blogger for a while, and I'm happy it got some new templates.
I've implemented a syntax highlighter to better view code, it's called SyntaxHighlighter.
Here are the steps to use it on Blogger
I've implemented a syntax highlighter to better view code, it's called SyntaxHighlighter.
Here are the steps to use it on Blogger
- Download SyntaxHighlighter to your computer
- Create a "Google Site" if you don't have one yet
- Create a "File Cabinet" page
- Upload the "shcore.js", the css files and the brushes (=code highlights for specific languages) as described in the SyntaxHighlighter installation notes
- Edit your Blogger template, link the js files and css in to the files you've uploaded (copy the link from "Download" on the file cabinet)
- Use the 'pre' method as described in the installation notes
- Don't forget the inclusion of
SyntaxHighlighter.all()
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