Sep 19, 2018 Posted by newlife007

Adding Cover Art to FLAC file from Command Line and GUI

Introduction So you have a flac file and at the time there was no cover art associate to it and now that you have found it you would like to add it. In this post we will show you how to do the changes from the command line and using Mp3tag (GUI). Getting The Tools First we will need to download flac from https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/xiph/releases/flac/. The package we will want to get is Windows:... read more

Jul 20, 2018 Posted by newlife007

How To Install GIMP 2.10 on Fedora 27 Using Flatpak

Introduction The latest version of GIMP was made available but like many Linux distributions it takes time for the package maintainers to get it package or possibly no package for older releases. In this post we will go over using Flatpak to install GIMP 2.10 on Fedora 27. Install Flatpak $ sudo dnf -y install flatpak All the needed dependencies are installed and now we are ready to get GIMP 2.10... read more

Jul 15, 2018 Posted by newlife007

Using A PowerShell Function To Search and Replace in a Text file

Introduction When I started working in PowerShell for scripting in Windows I longed for a way to do inline editing of a file like you could do with sed. I was able to do this with VBScript but it was long and ugly. After learning more about some of the cmdlets I was able to create a function to search and replace. In this post I would like to share the simple function with you. The Code The overall code... read more

Jul 10, 2018 Posted by newlife007

Retrieving Isilon Share Information with RESTful API and PowerShell

Introduction In an earlier post we covered using RESTful API calls to EMC Isilon to retrieve quota data. In this post we will make the same calls but gather data on SMB / CIFS Shares for screen output as well and optional CSV output. We will also look at the options to gather for different zones as well. Prerequisites To be able to execute RESTful API calls to Isilon you will need to create an account and... read more

Jun 24, 2018 Posted by newlife007

How To Get XtremIO Volume Data Using PowerShell and XtremLib

Introduction In an earlier post we introduced the XtremIO PowerShell modules available for download and use from EMC. We covered a few of the basic cmdlets available. In this post we will look at Using the Get-XtremVolumes cmdlet to create a capacity report for specific volumes. Getting Started If you have followed the post earlier you should have the certs and the XtremLib PowerShell modules installed... read more