Posted by ewall on Nov 2, 2011 | Comments Off
Walk This Way
After reading over the infographic below, I am SO glad that I live so close to my office that I can walk there everyday. After three years of commuting-by-foot I never want to give it up! Click image to enlargeFrom: Streamline Refinance via...
Posted by ewall on Oct 25, 2011 | Comments Off
PowerCLI for easy VMware a...
I’ve had VMware’s PowerCLI installed on my admin PC for months now, but I hadn’t had a chance to use it until today. But I’m glad I did! On several previous occasions I’ve needed to use the vSphere CLI (f/k/a RCLI) or the Perl SDK for specific tasks, but did not find them… intuitive. Sure, maybe if I had all the VMware commands and shell scripts memorized, but who has...
Posted by ewall on Oct 18, 2011 | 1 comment
New article to kickoff the...
Today I’m starting a new series of posts which will server as an introduction to some of the joys of PowerShell scripting. Yeah, that’s right: I said “joys”… seriously! PowerShell is powerful as the first part of the name suggests and flexible as a shell should be, and once you try it I daresay you’ll never want to go back to VBScript. Anyway, you can find this new...
Posted by ewall on Sep 28, 2011 | 2 comments
Now You’ve No Excuse
If you’ve heard any news or browsed the Internet at all today, chances are you’ve already heard plenty about Amazon.com’s newly-announced Kindle eReaders, especially their new 7-inch tablet, the Kindle Fire. CNET’s Molly Wood succintly answers the question everyone is asking, if this will be the iPad killer: “Yes. It’s the price, stupid”! But I don’t want to...
Posted by ewall on Aug 5, 2011 | Comments Off
How do you spell “LO...
A couple months ago I switched my voicemail to using Google Voice. It was much easier than I expected, mostly because my cellular provider is Sprint, who have a partnership with Google Voice that allows you to port over your real mobile number with very little hassle. (For me, keeping the same phone number I’ve had for over a dozen years was a high priority.) Now I can resolutely say that using...
Posted by ewall on Jul 19, 2011 | Comments Off
The Age of Adz
You may have noticed that I finally broke down and started including some ads on my site. I figured after over 10 years of sounding my barbaric YAWP to the World Wide Web, and now with hundreds (or sometimes thousands) of visitors each month, maybe I could finally ask this website to at least pay for itself. Of course, you may have not noticed the ads either, if you use an ad-blocker program like I do. And...About Me
My name is Eric Wallace. I'm quite fond of coffee, snorkel masks, hacking, recreational therapy, alternative uses for spam, and twelve-tone improvisation. Some of these things are true, but I'm not telling you which.
