The Surly Admin

Father, husband, IT Pro, cancer survivor

Simple Multiplication Table

My daughter has really been working on her multiplication tables this year and normally she comes home with a study sheet for each number, all the way up to 12.  This week we’re working on 8’s, so 8×0, 8×1, all the way up to 8×12.  Unfortunately she didn’t get a worksheet so she decided to make her own.  If I can take a moment of fatherly pride, she does this kind of thing all the time without us making her.  What a gal!  Well, one of the ways I motivate her is to race her.  So it was on.  Can I write a PowerShell script and get the multiplication table out before she could write it out?!

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April 4, 2014 Posted by | Powershell - Getting Started | , , , , | 1 Comment

To Redirect or Not

Recently I was working with someone on Spiceworks and he kept insisting on using redirection to fill a log file.  This seemed messy with me, so I decided to test his code versus what I like to do.  Read on to see the results.

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January 10, 2013 Posted by | Powershell - Performance | , | 1 Comment