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The price of (personal) cloud storage
It was a big day for cloud storage providers. First, Microsoft made several changes to its SkyDrive service. The main things that users will care about are the apps for various operating systems and devices and the changes in the … Continue reading
The illusion of privacy
Late last week, Jenna Wortham wrote a post on the New York Times’ Bits blog entitled Digital Diary: Instagram and the Internet’s ‘Secret’ Places. Personally, I prefer the post’s URL slug – “digital-diary-instagram-and-the-illusion-of-privacy.” I wish those words appeared more prominently … Continue reading
How private should your social network be?
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and a friend’s Facebook post – about considering closing his Facebook account – finally prompted me. I have a simple philosophy when it comes to what I post online: If … Continue reading
Find text in a file with PowerShell
I often need to search through logs to find errors and other troubleshooting information. In the Linux world, this often means using grep. In PowerShell, you can use Get-Content and Where-Object. The code above will display any lines in mylogfile.txt … Continue reading
Find hidden files with PowerShell
I recently had a need to get a list of hidden files in a directory tree. PowerShell made it fairly easy to knock out the list in a quick and dirty fashion, by checking if the file Attributes contain the … Continue reading
