As a heavy user of Learning with Texts and Beeminder, I wanted to my LWT statistics to intergrate with Beeminder. So I created a small Python script which scrapes the total number of terns created in Learning With Text and reports it to Beeminder...
I mentioned in How I Passed the CompTIA A+ that I created a desktop application to help me create flash cards. This was a good thing, because by the end of 2020 I had created 4000+ flash cards from studying Computer Security, the CompTIA A+ Core...
I have found a variety of use cases for a script that could pull emails from a folder in my Outlook and delete them based on certain strings being in the body of the email. As I wrote about in my previous blog post about interacting with Outlook...
Sending emails with attachments using PowerShell is a common requirement. However, I've had a hard time finding an up-to-date way of doing this, so I thought I would share what I found. Built-In Cmdlets So the first thing I do when I need to do...
Something I forgot to mention in my post on how I passed the CompTIA A+ Core 1 is important enough, to me, to create a separate post. This is the concept popularized by Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. ...There are known knowns; there...
I ran into a situation where I needed to check a webpage at regular intervals to ensure it was up. I was working through Manning's PowerShell in a Month of Lunches and decided this would be a great chance to try out some PowerShell scripting....
I've been enamoured by Groff lately and having incremental changes to text files using different scripts. This new-found interest in using text files led me to start writing all my social media posts in one text file. If you manage social media...
If you use the VSphere Client on a Windows 10 Laptop, you might experience the mouse jumping to the bottom right-hand corner of the VSphere Client screen, when you are remotely controlling a VM. I had this problem after installing Windows Server...
In my post on how I passed the CompTIA A+ Core 1, I had a short critique of Dion Training's A+ Core 1 Test Prep, Exams, and Simulations. This post will give a more comprehensive review of what I feel the problems with this course were. Grammar...
The following post is how I studied and passed the CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1001) in May 2020. Between my interest in getting back into IT, and having an extra 3-4 hours a day (COVID-19 removed my commute, and any chance of leaving the house), it...