Category Archives: Coding

Cryptographic-hash-based ‘load balancing’ with PowerShell

Posted on December 14, 2015 by steveshomelab

Even distribution of group membership In many systems, it is not uncommon to need to split objects (e.g. computers) across multiple groups. In WSUS, for example, you may have 1,000 servers to patch, and rather than doing them all in one … Continue reading →

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VMware VCP 4.1 ‘configuration maximums’ test questions

Posted on May 1, 2013 by steveshomelab

Part of the preparation for a VMware VCP exam involves memorising a large number of facts about VMware products. For example: “How many ixgbe Oplin 10GB Ethernet ports (Intel) are supported per host?” The easiest way I found to deal with this requirement was to … Continue reading →

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“Taekwon-Do Theory Assistant” in Linux Format magazine

Posted on June 26, 2011 by steveshomelab

As a “Part II” to my earlier post entitled “Taekwon-Do Theory Assistant” – making money for strangers!, an email from a Linux Format reader made me aware of the fact that my Taekwon-Do Theory Assistant app appeared in the July … Continue reading →

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Atari ST Virtual Machine as an alternative to the Java Virtual Machine? Not this time.

Posted on May 30, 2011 by steveshomelab

It’s not often that I want to curse the advances made in technology over the last twenty years. Looking through the archives of old code that I’ve written, I came across an unfinished game that I really cannot ever finish, … Continue reading →

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Before the Internet #2… “My First PC” featuring “MS-DOS Directory Changer”

Posted on April 21, 2011 by steveshomelab

Following on from my previous post… In 1998, after a few years’ break from computers – give or take the occasional dabble with my Atari ST for nostalgic reasons or to help me with the odd maths problem during my … Continue reading →

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Before the Internet #1… 68000 light cycles

Posted on April 21, 2011 by steveshomelab

“Atari ST Internals – The Authoritative Insider’s Guide” by R Bruckmann, K Gerits & L Englisch (Abacus Software – Jan 1987) I find it crazy now to think that a single paperback enabled me to write a full-blown game for … Continue reading →

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SoundConverter – freedom, power and a little patience

Posted on April 17, 2011 by steveshomelab

The year is 2007. I’ve just bought an Aigo F529 (pictured). I want to squeeze as much music as possible onto its internal memory. I download SoundConverter. It seems to do everything I need. I think that if I could … Continue reading →

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“France 2 News Streaming Script” – gone but not forgotten

Posted on April 16, 2011 by steveshomelab

In 2005, my friend Liam and I wrote a bit of code collaboratively which enabled the French news on the France 2 website to be easily viewed in Linux. As well as the finished product being very useful to us, … Continue reading →

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“Taekwon-Do Theory Assistant” – making money for strangers!

Posted on April 14, 2011 by steveshomelab

After deciding to start this blog, I thought that now would be a good time to tidy up my general online presence. It would seem, however, that not all of it is tidyupable. One of my babies – Taekwon-Do Theory … Continue reading →

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