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PSingletary / twittermute.txt

Created January 26, 2020 02:58 — forked from IanColdwater/twittermute.txt

Here are some terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit.

	Mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords

	ActivityTweet
	generic_activity_highlights
	generic_activity_momentsbreaking
	RankedOrganicTweet
	suggest_activity
	suggest_activity_feed
	suggest_activity_highlights
	suggest_activity_tweet

PSingletary / PSTemplate.ps1

Created January 11, 2020 19:30

Writitng a Powershell Script? Need a Template? Start Here

	#Requires -version 2
	#Requires -RunAsAdministrator
	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	<A brief description of the function or script. This keyword can be used only once in each topic.>

	.DESCRIPTION
	<A detailed description of the function or script. This keyword can be used only once in each topic.>

	.PARAMETER <Parameter-Name>

PSingletary / Holiday-cipher.ps1

Created December 27, 2019 16:21

Source: #https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/24/seasons-greetings/

(77,101,114,114,121,32,67,104,114,105,115,116,109,97,115,32,97,110,100,32,97,32,72,97,112,112,121,32,78,101,119,32,89,101,97,114 | ForEach-Object {[char][byte]$psitem}) -join ''

PSingletary / Create-ByteArray.ps1

Created December 27, 2019 16:20

How to convert a string to a byte array and convert a byte array to a string - source: http://www.geekswithblogs.net/TimH/archive/2005/06/27/44849.aspx

	System.Text.Encoding enc = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII;
	byte[] myByteArray = enc.GetBytes("a text string");
	string myString = enc.GetString(myByteArray );

PSingletary / Holiday-Cheer.ps1

Created December 6, 2019 20:56

2014-12-23 a quick script to make a windows speak then play random music

	Add-Type -AssemblyName presentationCore
	Add-Type -AssemblyName System.speech
	$mediaPlayer = New-Object system.windows.media.mediaplayer
	$speak = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer
	$files = Get-ChildItem -path $path -include *.mp3 -recurse
	#$speak.Rate = -10 # -10 to 10; -10 is slowest, 10 is fastest`
	$speak.Speak("Ho Ho Ho")
	$mediaPlayer.open([uri]"$(Get-Random -InputObject $files)")
	$mediaPlayer.Play()
	#Start-Sleep -Seconds 30

PSingletary / slideshare-dl.py

Created August 1, 2019 20:04 — forked from julionc/slideshare-dl.py

slideshare-dl is a small command-line program for downloading slides from SlideShare.net

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	"""
	slideshare-dl.py
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	slideshare-dl is a small command-line program
	for downloading slides from SlideShare.net

PSingletary / Invoke-Ping.ps1

Created July 10, 2019 01:09

Source: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Invoke-Ping-Parallel-check-edacc6b9


	function Invoke-Ping {
	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Ping or test connectivity to systems in parallel

	.DESCRIPTION
	Ping or test connectivity to systems in parallel

	Default action will run a ping against systems

PSingletary / install-all-distros.ps1

Created July 9, 2019 19:59 — forked from PrateekKumarSingh/install-all-distros.ps1

	$URLs = "https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-1804" ,"https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-1804-arm" ,"https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-1604" ,"https://aka.ms/wsl-debian-gnulinux" ,"https://aka.ms/wsl-kali-linux" ,"https://aka.ms/wsl-opensuse-42" ,"https://aka.ms/wsl-sles-12"

	$ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
	$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
	Foreach($URL in $URLs){
	$Filename = "$(Split-Path $URL -Leaf).appx"
	Write-Host "Downloading: $Filename" -Foreground Yellow -NoNewline
	try{
	Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $URL -OutFile $Filename -UseBasicParsing
	Add-AppxPackage -Path $Filename

PSingletary / manual-install.ps1

Created July 9, 2019 19:43 — forked from PrateekKumarSingh/manual-install.ps1

	$URL = 'https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-1804'
	$Filename = "$(Split-Path $URL -Leaf).appx"
	$ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
	Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $URL -OutFile $Filename -UseBasicParsing
	Invoke-Item $FileName

PSingletary / Copy-Groups.ps1

Created May 2, 2019 17:56

Copy members from one AD Group to another - Source: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/2e65dcfd-414e-4367-b69c-c4432d77d10c/copy-members-from-one-ad-group-to-another?forum=winserverpowershell

Add-ADGroupMember -Identity 'New Group' -Members (Get-ADGroupMember -Identity 'Old Group' -Recursive)

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