Nick Shores nshores

Pimping Up Your PowerShell & Cmder with Posh-Git, Oh-My-Posh, & Powerline Fonts

Backstory (TLDR)

I work as a full-stack developer at work. We are a Windows & Azure shop, so we are using Windows as our development platform, hence this customization.

For my console needs, I am using Cmder which is based on ConEmu with PowerShell as my shell of choice.

Yes, yes, I know nowadays you can use the Linux subsystem on Windows 10 which allow you to run Ubuntu on Windows. If you are looking for customization of the Ubuntu bash shell, check out this article by Scott Hanselman.

NOTE: This Gist was an early write-up of this blog post, part of what became an eleven-part series on my arcade cabinet. I'd suggest you read that post instead of this, but some of the comments on this Gist contain updates and field reports that you might find useful.

RetroPie, LED control, and you

I wanted LEDBlinky-style functionality out of my RetroPie cabinet. But I didn't need RGB control or magical frontend integration or anything like that. I had buttons with simple single-color LEDs.

I've got a simple control panel with six buttons per player. All I wanted was this:

When I launch Street Fighter 2, all twelve buttons should light up.
When I launch The Simpsons, only the first two buttons for each player should light up.

This is a recipe to fix this error when importing to VMWare an OVA file:

Download and install OVFTool (https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/)

Convert OVA to VMX using the command below (this will create example.vmx)

$ ovftool example.ova example.vmx

Safest way to clean up boot partition - Ubuntu 14.04LTS-x64, Ubuntu 16.04LTS-x64

Reference

Case I: if /boot is not 100% full and apt is working

1. Check the current kernel version

$ uname -r

	Notes to make IR shield (made by LinkSprite) work in Raspberry Pi 3 (bought from Amazon [1]).
	The vendor has some documentation [2] but that is not complete and sufficient for Raspbian Stretch.
	Following are the changes that I made to make it work.

	$ sudo apt-get update
	$ sudo apt-get install lirc

	# Add the following lines to /etc/modules file
	lirc_dev
	lirc_rpi gpio_in_pin=18 gpio_out_pin=17

	# I had a bit of trouble getting my unifi controller (hosted offsite) to use a proxy/letsencrypt. So here are the fruits of my labor.
	# The unifi default port is 8443 running on localhost.

	# License: CC0 (Public Domain)

	server {
	# SSL configuration
	#
	listen 443 ssl default_server;
	listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;

	# Start-FileSystemWatcher.ps1 - File System Watcher in Powershell.
	# Brought to you by MOBZystems, Home of Tools
	# https://www.mobzystems.com/code/using-a-filesystemwatcher-from-powershell/

	[CmdletBinding()]
	Param(
	# The path to monitor
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=0)]
	[string]$Path,
	# Monitor these files (a wildcard)

	// For all the confusing Prometheus configuration and
	// regular expressions,
	// explained in examples.


	// Remember, there are default values for each item if it's missing.
	// regex is (.*),
	// replacement is $1,
	// separator is ;
	// ,and action is replace

	# Reset-LocalAccountPassword.ps1
	# Written by Bill Stewart (bstewart@iname.com)

	#requires -version 2

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Resets the built-in Administrator account or a named local account password on one or more computers.

	.DESCRIPTION

	# It might work in 4, but I'm not testing there. Lower you'll have to tweak code
	#requires -Version 5.0
	param(
	# Your Live ID for MSDN login
	[Parameter(Mandatory)]
	[PSCredential]
	[System.Management.Automation.CredentialAttribute()]
	$Credential,

	# Pick a browser to use. Defaults to Firefox (which doesn't seem to require an external Driver file)