I was looking for a quick and easy way to get directory and file size for a given directory and its sub-directories. I came across a nice post by Luis Diego Fallus and ended up using a commenter’s code to produce output in MB format. gci . | %{$f=$_; gci -r $_.FullName | measure-object -property length…
Read More A Simple PowerShell Windows du ImplementationRob van der Woude has a nice batch script to get disk usage of folders & subfolders in Windows since there isn’t a built-in function. This could be similar to Linux du command. @ECHO OFF :: Use local variables IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" SETLOCAL :: Check command line arguments and Windows version ECHO.%1 | FIND "/"…
Read More Batch Script to get Disk Usage of Folders RecursivelyHere’s a query I found that helps show database IO consumption. SELECT DB_NAME(DB_ID('DATABASENAME')) AS [Database Name] , mf.physical_name , io_stall_read_ms , num_of_reads , CAST(io_stall_read_ms / (1.0 + num_of_reads) AS NUMERIC(10, 1)) AS [avg_read_stall_ms] , io_stall_write_ms , num_of_writes , CAST(io_stall_write_ms / (1.0 + num_of_writes) AS NUMERIC(10, 1)) AS [avg_write_stall_ms] , io_stall_read_ms + io_stall_write_ms AS [io_stalls] ,…
Read More SQL Database IO ConsumptionTAPEDRIVE NOTES (LINUX 2.4) -Rich (01/08/2004) Rewind tape drive: # mt -f /dev/st0 rewind Backup directory /www and /home with tar command (z – compressed): # tar -czf /dev/st0 /www /home Find out what block you are at with mt command: # mt -f /dev/st0 tell Display list of files on tape drive: # tar…
Read More Linux Tape Drive NotesWhat is it? I created a small tool to help facilitate setting the default user to automatically logon to a system. Requirements Administrator Privileges .NET 2.0 or greater Details There are 4 registry entries of interest here: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon] AutoAdminLogon=1 DefaultUserName= DefaultPassword= ForceAutoLogon=1 If you don’t want to download and run my program, you can…
Read More Tool: AutoLogon – Configure Windows’ Automatic User LogonI have ImageMagick installed on a Linux system I use to host a few websites. From time to time, I need to quickly resize a photo, add a watermark, or do something else to an image on the server. I could easily FTP to the server, grab the files, modify then re-upload. I find it…
Read More Change Image Brightness, Contrast and Hue with ImageMagick Command Line