This is a PowerShell implementation of the cal command found in Unix/Linux. Its task is quite simply to output a calendar view of the choosen month(s). (more…)

The other day I came across an excellent function written by Boe Prox, called Get-FileSignature. His function will read a file and give you the Hex and ASCII signature of the file. I thought a bit about how I could use this function and came across several sites on-line listing the file signatures of known file formats. That got me thinking! What if I could create a function that tried to determine a files type based on its file signature?  (more…)

Inspired by Jeffrey Hicks Christmas prompts [#1,#2] for PowerShell, I thought I’d do my part to give some Christmas spirit as well.  (more…)

If you work in an environment with HP servers, this function will help you get hardware information from the HP Insight Management WBEM providers if you have them installed. It uses CIM to query several HP specific classes in the root\hpq namespace. The following information will be returned by the function: (more…)

This is another old WMI function I have rewritten to use CIM instead. This one queries computers for memory information. (more…)

Some days ago I wrote about taking the leap and start using CIM instead of the good, old Get-WmiObject. I wrote the CIM function template as a result of some WMI functions that I decided to rewrite. Today I give you the first of them; Get-Cpu. (more…)