Dalle & DXter

Automatic Bios update with PowerShell

By Fredrik Wall

I currently working with clients in an environment

without any system that will update computers

Bios automatically.

So I have started to write a PowerShell script for this.

It uses Windows Forms for the output and WMI for

the information gathering.

This script is very similar to Dells VBScript for Bios Upgrades.

That script can be found here.

 

My script will check for current version on the computer and
then check in a file structure for the right bios upgrade version
and If It needs to be upgraded It will run the upgrade file.

My file structure is very simple and It’s located on a file share.

 

 

 

The bios upgrade files for Dell computers can be found

at ftp.dell.com/bios

The script is in a alpha or Beta phase, but If you are interested

in It you can mail me, DM me on Twitter or send me a message at

messenger.

 

Logged in user and Local Administrator

By Fredrik Wall

This is a function to determine if the current user

is a member of the local administrator group.

function LocalAdministrator {

    $strComputer = "."
    $computer = [ADSI]("WinNT://" + $strComputer + ",computer")
    $Group = $computer.psbase.children.find("Administrators")
    $members= $Group.psbase.invoke("Members") | %{$_.GetType()

.InvokeMember("Name", 'GetProperty', $null, $_, $null)}

    $localAdmin = $false

    ForEach($user in $members)

    {
        if ($user -match $env:USERNAME) {
            $localAdmin = $true
        }
    }
}

Usage:

    LocalAdministrator

    if (!($localAdmin)) {

        break
    }

This will break the script if the user

don’t belong to the local administrators group.

New Theme for iPhone

By Fredrik Wall

We added a special theme for iPhone tonight.

This will make the page load faster and
better in iPhone.

Next step will be to do a new theme for the whole site.
This will be later on.

Google News x 2

By Fredrik Wall

Today there is two Google news.

First out is Google Buzz

It’s a social network thing like Facebook,
Twitter etc on GMail.

You can add friends and then “Buzz” about things.
Much like Twitter.

If you like you can add me wall.fredrik@gmail.com.

I’m not a big fan of it yet, but maybe I can be it later on

Read more about it at http://www.google.com/buzz

The other Google news is that Google will be a ISP.
They will try to sell 1GB internet connections to homes.

Read more here.

New PowerGUI desktop background

By Fredrik Wall

The PowerGUI people have done a new Desktop Background.
So I switched right away.

Before:

 

After:

The new background is on the Winter
Olympic theme.

It can be found here.

 

I’m a pc geek with a iPhone

By Fredrik Wall

I did buy me an iPhone last week.
And now I have been using it a lot since I
got it.

Yes I’m a PC guy with a iPhone

The applications that I use most after the
the iPod application is Gowalla and Spotify.

My top 10 applications so far:

Gowalla
Spotify
iPod
Facebook
Res i STHLM
Mail
Twitterrific
Maps
Weather
Clock

 

Yesterday I made a Trip in Gowalla.
Stockholm Crazy Commuter Train –
Stockholm Märsta.

If you got Gowalla you can add me
if you like. http://gowalla.com/users/walle75

 

At work I just plug-in computer speakers into my
iPhone and use the Spotify application.

My favorite music at work to and with good
sound.

And I got my Twitter account in my iPhone too.

Is there a better Twitter client then the free version of Twitterrific?

Does anybody use a good messenger client in iPhone?