Archives » February, 2007

Smart Disk Defragmentation with Powershell

As I mentioned before, I wrote a powershell script that defragments you hard drives based on a percentage. The nice thing about this is you can schedule this to run at a given interval (daily, weekly, whatever) and it will on defragment your drives as necessary. I gave a short synopsis of the [...]

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Autobuild Update

After a few runs, I’ve found that the Autobuild script I wrote for building automatically at night seems to work like a charm. One thing I thought to add which I’ll probably post is a small function that does the following on each logical drive on the local machine:

Runs the Windows Disk Defragmentor (defrag.exe) [...]

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Autobuild Test

So, after spending a couple weeks of “free time” (see also: a spare few minutes at the end of the day or before lunch), I finally got a build script together using Powershell. In addition to parsing the VS Build logs for warning/errors, I added some functions to start/stop services, defragment hard drives based [...]

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It’s frickin’ freezing in here, Mr. Bigglesworth.

The heating and air conditioning in our building is sporadic. Not on a daily basis, but on a room-by-room basis. During the summer, my “office roommate” and I noticed that we would experience an afternoon heat wave, where the temperature would spike to about 85°F between 2:30 and 3:00 pm. Needless to [...]

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