Top-25 virtualization bloggers
Eric Siebert just published the results of the Top-25 bloggers poll. Over 700 people voted and several bloggers entered the top-25 like Frank Denneman and Alan Renouf. I would like to thank everyone for voting on me. It’s a true honor to be part of a list like the following, let alone being voted as the number one virtualization blogger…
- Yellow Bricks – Duncan Epping – 158 #1 votes – total score of 4,191
- Virtual Geek – Chad Sakac – 111 #1 votes – total score of 2,938
- Scott Lowe’s Blog – Scott Lowe – 56 #1 votes – total score of 2,889
- NTPro.nl – Eric Sloof - 22 #1 votes – total score of 2062
- RTFM Education – Mike Laverick – 7 #1 votes – total score of 1,734
- Virtualization Evangelist – Jason Boche – 13 #1 votes – total score of 1,482
- VM/ETC – Rich Brambley – 5 #1 votes – total score of 1,138
- Gabe’s Virtual World – Gabrie van Zanten – 8 #1 votes – total score of 1,096
- Virtual Storage Guy – Vaughn Stewart – 58 #1 votes – total score of 990
- Virtu-Al – Alan Renouf – 18 #1 votes – total score of 831
I borrowed the list from Arnim who blogged about it yesterday, for the full list with all 66 Bloggers check Eric’s new article.
PowerShell-based download manager
Ravikanth Chaganti used PowerGUI and BITS cmdlets to create a nice utility which lets you download multiple files using the great features of BITS protocol (works in background not affecting other applications, has priorities, allows to suspend and resume downloads and so on.)
To create a download job you can feed in a specific URL of a file you need to be downloaded, a CSV file or a URL of a page which references the files you need. In my case I used this latter option and supplied the URL of the page which has all downloads from Microsoft PDC conference.
Once I clicked OK the tool parsed the page and gave me a list of all the files it found linked from the page.
I used the Filter functionality to only pick the slides (files with PPTX extention) from PDC’s SVC track. Selected all the files and clicked Start Web Downloads:
Then I went to the List Active BITS Jobs node and pressed F5 from time to see the status changing.
For failed items you can click Restart (in my case though they all succeeded), for Transferred ones – Complete Transferred Jobs:
And you got the files!
You can download this pack (absolutely free with all PowerShell code behind!) here and read more about the pack in the user’s guide Ravikanth put together.
UPDATE: By the way, do let Ravikanth know what you think by sending him a tweet or leaving comments at the BITS PowerPack page or his blog. He is fixing issues and adding features amazingly fast!
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8-bit Left 4 Dead
This look like a lot of fun will have to give a go later tonight, happy days 
