Showing archive results for February 2006

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I convert a DN to this format: finance.fabrikam.com/Users?-- CW Hey, CW. You know, this is a pretty good question; in fact, we should have used it for the Winter Scripting Games. Ah, but, on second thought, maybe it’s a good thing we didn’t use it. Why not? Well, because all the Scripting Games competitors could find ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine when a USB flash drive gets connected?-- PS Hey, PS. OK, we admit it: the Scripting Guys are lazy. (Especially on a Friday, which is the day when we have to write our Monday column.) There might be a way to monitor specifically for the insertion of a USB flash drive; however, we couldn’t find one, at least...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I log the start time and the end time of the screensaver?-- JS Hey, JS. You know, one of the Scripting Guys (hey, who said “It must be Greg”?) is old enough to remember the days when screensavers first came out. Back then a script like this would have been meaningless: after all, once a screensaver started everyone wa...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I count the number of times the word Failure appears in a log file? There’s one catch, though: the log file simply writes its events one after another, creating one big, giant line of text.-- FS Hey, FS. According to the rest of your email, your log file looks something like this:Failure 2/7/2006 8:25 AM Failure 2/7/2...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Using a script, is there any way to determine whether a computer has any USB 2.0 ports?-- RD Hey, RD. Are you familiar with the movie Freaky Friday, where the mom and the daughter switch bodies (and roles)? Well, we have sort of a Freaky Friday kind of thing going on with this question. After all, in this column the Scripting...