- It seems that the blade server market grew at a nice clip in Q3 according to IDC as reported by Kevin Houston at Blades Made Simple. I wonder how long this will continue? With VSAN and associated technologies, blades don’t really make sense to me. Maybe they won’t be as big a deal as they are made out to be?
- I’ve been working a lot with Microsoft Word lately and quite frankly I hate it. I’m not sure how but I managed to stumble upon this blog post by Charlie Stross giving a good history lesson on Office and detailing the pain it has inflicted. Due to recently working with GitHub md files, I’m thinking one of the Markdown flavours would be easier to use.
- I’ve talked about the HP iLO PowerShell cmdlets before but PowerShell Magazine has a good article with an overview of the module.
- Still at PowerShell Magazine, they have a good tip on how to use PowerShell to compress files using NTFS. I’m a bit surprised you have to use WMI but I’m guessing the feature is infrequently used.
- Joel Reed at Start-Transcript has a great PowerShell tip on how to use ConvertFrom-StringData to read in “ini” like configuration files. I could see this coming in handy if you want to give your PowerShell script an “application-like” experience. Perhaps it might be useful in combination with scheduled tasks?
