i’m really pleased that i’ve managed to stick with this project for so long. i remember attempting another 365 project (self portrait) and only lasting [...]]]> daily randomatic project: i’m taking three photos everyday. i shake my hipstamatic before i take a shot so i have no idea what film, lense or flash combo i’ll have.

i’m really pleased that i’ve managed to stick with this project for so long. i remember attempting another 365 project (self portrait) and only lasting 5 days. however i am finding it much harder to get decent shots. i barely had three decent picks out of a possible twenty one. despite this set back, i do have to marvel at how hipstamatic has totally got me turned on to taking photos with my iphone!

here’s my pick of week 3, if you’d like to see more have a look at my set on flickr. warning: there’s more duff shots than decent at the moment. flickr: daily randomatic.

i’m about two weeks into this project. i’m finding that more often than not it’s all about framing the shot. not knowing the type of [...]]]> daily randomatic project: i’m taking three photos everyday. i shake my hipstamatic before i take a shot so i have no idea what film, lense or flash combo i’ll have.

i’m about two weeks into this project. i’m finding that more often than not it’s all about framing the shot. not knowing the type of lens, film and flash you’ll get means you can’t rely on colour or constrast alone. i’m definitely finding the slightly dodgy view finder and the delay between shots a bit of a challenge, but this is a good thing.

here’s my pick of week 2, if you’d like to see more have a look at my set on flickr. warning: there’s more duff shots than decent at the moment. flickr: daily randomatic.

i’ve setup a 365 project on flickr where i take three photos, but here’s the catch each shot is taken using the random feature. this [...]]]> mrs. booyaa made me aware of an awesomazing iphone app called hipstamatic, it’s an iphone app that thinks its a toy camera (lomo, holga, etc).

i’ve setup a 365 project on flickr where i take three photos, but here’s the catch each shot is taken using the random feature. this means i have no idea what combo of lens, flash or film i’ll get.

here’s a few samples (admittedly my best so far):

it is dependent on lotus notes finding the correct notes.ini for your environment.

tip: if you’re running the network [...]]]> the following script is an example of how to run domino console commands via powershell. yes server controller can do this, but sometimes its nice to see how to use the lotus notes com object.

it is dependent on lotus notes finding the correct notes.ini for your environment.

tip: if you’re running the network drive, make sure you place the path to the ini file before c:\windows, c:\windows\system32 and c:\path\to\lotus\notes. this applies to allow applications that use the notes client com object.

# provide default parameters if none are specified (this will fail if you don't have a server called NOTESERVER1

param(
	[string] $server = "NOTESERVER1",
	[string] $cmd = "sh ta"
)

# begin lotus notes magick
$session = New-Object -comobject Lotus.NotesSession
$session.initialize()
$session.Username

$session.SendConsoleCommand( $server, $cmd )

i’ve read that the best way to avoid [...]]]> so this time around i played around with one of the maps that came with half life 2. i found to my annoyance that game saves are flakey, our generic resistance medic (lying on the mattress) kept disappearing from scene when i loaded from a previous save.

i’ve read that the best way to avoid loss of data is to use advanced duplicator (which is part of the wiremod suite). i will use this for the next project.

what is also annoying is how the mattress that our medic is on managed to vanish into the floor on the third scene.

i made good use of noclip to get an interest view in the first scene. i also messed around with the glass special effects in second scene, i was not pleased with the end result though.

to get a better view of the images, click on the images and switch to large mode.

oh and yes barney fumbles the watermelon and get flattened.

stcf.bat:

vwGroupDeletions.sql:

now isn’t that easier to read? one key thing to note is that you can use place holders to make the script [...]]]> there’s a point where logparser one liners start to make perl look like a tidy language. this is when you need to start using query files. here’s a sample query file below.

vwGroupDeletions.sql:

-- SQL file version of vwGroupDeletions.bat query --
SELECT top 5
timegenerated as timestamp,
eventid,
extract_token(strings,2,'|') as group,
resolve_sid(substr(Extract_token(strings, 1, '|'), 2, -1)) as user
INTO %lpCsvFile%
FROM \\%lpServer%\%lpLogType%
WHERE eventid = 633

now isn’t that easier to read? one key thing to note is that you can use place holders to make the script dynamic. these are identical to dos/batch variable names i.e. %woof%. to use the query file all you need to is specify it as the logparser parameter file, here’s a sample batch file.

vwGroupDeletions.bat:

@echo off
cls
set lpServer=aServerCalledBob
set lpLogType=security
set lpCsvFile=vwGroupDeletions.csv

echo Generating CSV file (%lpCsvFile%) for recent deletions on %lpServer%

logparser file:vwGroupDeletions.sql?lpServer=%lpServer%+lpLogType=%lpLogType%+lpCsvFile=%lpCsvFile%

oh if you’re interested, this logparser script looks on server eventlog and grabs all recent group deletions (event id 633) and places them into a csv file.

it takes one parameter, [...]]]> i wrote this batch file to avoid the excessive build up of temp files created by fax software. because the application didn’t tidy up after itself, after a while (about 300K temp files later) it started to freak out and much oddness occurred as it tried to write subsequent temp files.

it takes one parameter, the number of days to before a file is considered old. the default is 30. the script will look for the existence of a file called fileReaper.lst (see sample below), this is a text file containing a list of directories that file reaper will run against, otherwise it will just run against the current directory.

the script is happy to be run by the task scheduler.

fileReaper.lst:

C:\DOCUME~1\SVC_RI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\
C:\WINNT\TEMP
C:\TEMP\
H:\TEMP\

fileReaper.bat:

@ECHO OFF
CLS
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
:: filereaper - kills files older than a N days

:: If no parameter given assume target files are older than 30 days
IF "%1%" == "" (
	SET paraDaysToAge=30
) ELSE (
	SET paraDaysToAge=%1%
)

::******************************************************
::*** NO USER SERVICABLE PARTS BELOW THIS POINT
::******************************************************

::Grab the current date
FOR /F "tokens=1-3 delims=/ " %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO (
	SET tDD=%%A
	SET	tMM=%%B
	SET tYYYY=%%C
)

IF NOT EXIST fileReaper.lst. GOTO noFileList

:: Main loop with reaper list file
FOR /F %%A IN (fileReaper.lst) DO (
	SET dirList=%%A
	IF EXIST %%ANUL (
		:: Reaper loop
		FOR /F "tokens=1-3,6 delims=/ " %%B IN ('DIR /A:-D /O:D !dirList! ^| FINDSTR /R /C:"^[0-9][0-9]/"') DO (
			SET fDD=%%B
			SET fMM=%%C
			SET fYYYY=%%D
			SET fName=%%E

			SET /A fAge=!tYYYY!!tMM!!tDD!-!fYYYY!!fMM!!fDD!
			IF !fAge! GEQ !paraDaysToAge! (
				ECHO !dirList!!fName! is !fAge! days old, in scope for deletion
			)
		)
	) ELSE (
		ECHO ERROR: !dirList! does not exist!
	)
)

GOTO theEnd

:noFileList
:: Main loop with no file list provided, assuming current working directory
FOR /F "tokens=1-3,6 delims=/ " %%B IN ('DIR /A:-D /O:D ^| FINDSTR /R /C:"^[0-9][0-9]/"') DO (
	SET fDD=%%B
	SET fMM=%%C
	SET fYYYY=%%D
	SET fName=%%E

	SET /A fAge=!tYYYY!!tMM!!tDD!-!fYYYY!!fMM!!fDD!
	IF !fAge! GEQ !paraDaysToAge! (
		ECHO !dirList!!fName! is !fAge! days old, in scope for deletion
	)
)

GOTO theEnd

:theEnd