Brent Saltzman
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  1. Shell Scripts to Automate Common Maintenance tasks for Linux servers

    Truth be told, one day I will learn and use somethimg like Ansible, but today I use the following scripts to make regular maintenance tasks easy for the linux servers in my home lab: For my Ubuntu/Debian servers: #!/bin/bash # Update the system sudo apt-get update -y sudo apt-get…

  2. Useful Tricks for Shell Scripting

    Shell scripting is a powerful tool that allows you to automate repetitive tasks and perform complex operations on your system. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, there are always new tricks and techniques to learn.…

  3. Control the Shure MXA910 and MXA310 Microphones with PowerShell

    If you don't know about Shure's MicroFlex Advance series [https://www.shure.com/en-US/conferencing-meetings/solutions/microflex_advance] of microphones, they have taken the AV and conferencing industries by storm creating the best in-class ceiling and table top microphone technology along with asthetics that fit into nearly any space. Even…

  4. Controlling Belkin Wemo lighting with a Logitech Harmony IR Remote

    Recently I've found myself dabbling in some basic home automation for lighting and control. I've had pretty decent success with the Belkin Wemo line of products and more recently I've enjoyed using their light bulbs on their Wemo Link platform. Here's my problem: I have these Wemo controlled LED light…

  5. Getting the number of signatures from iPetitions (in XML)

    iPetitions [http://ipetitions.com] is a free service that allows anyone to create an online petition and distribute a link for people to virtually sign it. To date their website claims they have collected over 25 million signatures collectively across their petitions. At work there was a need to take…

  6. Pushover Notifications

    There are only a handful of apps that I can't live without, let alone I would blog about for free (but if Superblock [http://superblock.net/] wants to throw some stickers my way, I'll put them in good places :)). One of them is Pushover [http://pushover.net]. Pushover [http://pushover.…