Eric Siron

As futurists try to get you excited about implantable AI and other technology, please try to remember that it will just be yet another avenue to harass us with advertisements. How badly to you want a skin care product ad to pop up in your brain while you're weeding your garden?

A screenshot of Greenshot's auto-zoom feature showing how it zooms in on the mouse cursor when you start a screen capture so that you can precisely capture desired content.

A screenshot of Greenshot's context menu, highlighting its "Capture last region" function.

Greenshot hasn't had an update in years, but other screenshot tools still haven't bothered to replicate its two must-have features: auto-zoom with arrow key trim for precise capture boundaries and "Capture last region". No faster way to cleanly grab successive wizard pages (especially in 4k).

Gen X Shibboleth: count to twelve.

I published an article on fixing Windows Admin Center v2 failing to load when you use a non-self-signed certificate: projectrunspace.org/windows-admi...

And everyone already has their lights up.

Some of you didn't endure years of professorial pressure to verify your sources and support your reasoning, and it shows. <<glares at AI>>

If you install Windows Admin Center v2 in gateway mode, you need to grant Read permissions to "NETWORK SERVICE" on the certificate's private key. Installer has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it line in the that marks the certificate "invalid". I found no events or evidence besides page load failure.

Lines of PowerShell code edited by Github Copilot Edits, awaiting accept or discard instructions from user.

And it shows you the changes and allows you to accept/discard all at once or individually.

Attended #GitHub #Copilot Edits session at #msignite. Took it for a spin today. Bye bye tedious parts of updating a #PowerShell script!!

Wish-ForGoto.ps1 Wish-ForGoto.ps1. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Included a mock-up gist. I know multiple ways to do this, but none as clean or straightforward as a goto.

Lack of "goto" makes my #PowerShell uglier. Lots of "if($that -and $alsothat -and $thattoo -and $ohyesthatotherthing)" or functions that will be called exactly once in exactly one order or... worse. I could really use a nice "goto cleanup" and "goto nextmajorchunk".

Isn't that a 100Mbps connection?

Amongst all the cloud talk, don't forget that you can still run a #WindowsServer instance on-premises in #HyperV for somewhere around 18-22 months at a similar cost to running it in Azure for one month. Have you seen all the new things in Windows Server 2025?

Do you need to improve your Windows #PowerShell skills? Windows PowerShell is still thing for many organization. If this is you, I have updated the Windows PowerShell Essentials learning track at Pluralsight.

PLEASE RP: WINDOWS SERVER 2025 ACTIVE DIRECTORY IMPROVEMENTS!

Windows Server 2025 AD has major improvements across the board with hardened defaults, new security features, new crypto, new forest, and domain functional levels, and much more... Today let's discuss the 32k DB page size feature...

At some point, we little folks have to say, "OK, if you want to play capitalism, let's play capitalism." We have to eat too. Nobody says we can't turn their evil money into good things.

State of the Laptop, post #msignite 2024. Sacrifices were made 🤣

Did you know if you do the command shutdown -t 0 -sg, it will shutdown your PC, but also preserve the apps you'd had open before shutting down, so when you boot your PC back up it will open them again? 👀

It was awesome to FINALLY be back at an in person #MSIgnite! Lots to learn and the future of #Copilot is bright and interesting to say the least! Also great seeing old friends in person again!

Slide design is a skill people can learn that too many orgs fail to provide.

Thank you to the #msignite presenters that used light mode! Aesthetics and preference aside, light text on dark background forces you to focus in software (your brain). Dark text on light background allows you to focus in purpose-built hardware (your eyes).

Do you have Software Assurance for #Windows #Server? Then you also already own the software license for #Azure Stack HCI/Azure Local. You only need the hardware. #Azure #Kubernetes Service now included with Azure Local Storage at no additional cost. #msignite

Nadella opened #MSIgnite with a quote how "computers don't give a damn, but we do". That was followed by a demonstration of using AI to essentially Deepfake yourself. The angles of abuse for this are astronomical. Didn't Walking Dead teach us that humans are the monsters?

a man is giving a thumbs up while holding a spray bottle in his hand . ALT: a man is giving a thumbs up while holding a spray bottle in his hand .

MS IGNITE: Satya mentioned a whole slew of new security features in Windows. A few of them are labeled “hypervisor.”

Yeah, that all Hyper-V.

This was my first problem with that! I'm GenX and NO PHONE CALLS. Is this really going to be desirable for Millennials and later?

Hello, #msignite!!

Project Runspace title graphic

Shell shield, green highlights

Shell shield, blue highlights

Shell shield, red highlights

You can now get Project Runspace stickers and t-shirts and other items! I also published some of my shell designs (PowerShell in my mind, but whatever shell you like!) projectrunspace.redbubble.com.

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Wrote a #PowerShell function to get BlueSky profiles.