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So we recently setup a new Win2k8 R2 print server to replace our aging 2k3 server, and I needed a way to easily switch a whole bunch of users over to the printer mappings on the new server.  After some digging, I came up with this method of switching everyone over at login with Powershell:

<#

.SYNOPSIS
This is a Powershell script to remove the old <printserver> printers and replace them with Printers mapped to <newprintserver>

.DESCRIPTION
This script will run at logon, and accomplish the following tasks:
1) Sets ErrorAction to Silently Continue to hide any red errors if a printer connection doesn’t exist
2) Gets the machines list of installed printers and passes it to the $localprinters variable
3) Searches the $localprinters variable for the printer names and declares them
4) Tests each variable for existence, and if it exists removes the old <printserver> version and installs the <newprintserver> version
5) Checks what the original default printer was, and if it was a <printserver> one changes it to the new <newprintserver> version

.NOTES
This script is fairly easy to modify and tailor to a different site by modifying the what is searched for via -pattern, and adjusting the printer connections in each test case.

.LINK
http://www.blueglowy.com

#>
$ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue"

$localprinters = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Printer -ComputerName ${env:computername}

$defaultprt = Get-WMIObject -class Win32_Printer -computer ${env:computername} -Filter Default=True | Select Name,Default

$test = Select-String -inputObject $localprinters -pattern "<printer1>" -quiet
$test2 = Select-String -inputObject $localprinters -pattern "<printer2>" -quiet
$test3 = Select-String -inputObject $localprinters -pattern "<printer3>" -quiet
$test4 = Select-String -inputObject $localprinters -pattern "<printer4>" -quiet

$prt1 = Select-String -inputObject $defaultprt -pattern "<printer1>" -quiet
$prt2 = Select-String -inputObject $defaultprt -pattern "<printer2>" -quiet
$prt3 = Select-String -inputObject $defaultprt -pattern "<printer3>" -quiet
$prt4 = Select-String -inputObject $defaultprt -pattern "<printer4>" -quiet

if ($test -eq "True") {(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).RemovePrinterConnection("\\<printserver>\<printer1>")
    (New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).AddWindowsPrinterConnection("\\<newprintserver>\<printer1>")}
    else {""}
   
if ($test2 -eq "True") {(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).RemovePrinterConnection("\\<printserver>\<printer2>")
    (New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).AddWindowsPrinterConnection("\\<newprintserver>\<printer2>")}
    else {""}
   
if ($test3 -eq "True") {(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).RemovePrinterConnection("\\<printserver>\<printer3>")
    (New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).AddWindowsPrinterConnection("\\<newprintserver>\<printer3>")}
    else {""}
   
if ($test4 -eq "True") {(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).RemovePrinterConnection("\\<printserver>\<printer4>")
    (New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).AddWindowsPrinterConnection("\\<newprintserver>\<printer4> PCL5")}
    else {""}

#Check for default printer and reset it to users original choice if printer was removed
if ($prt1 -eq "True") {($Printer = Get-WmiObject win32_printer  | where {$_.name -match "<printer1>"})}
    Elseif ($prt2 -eq "True") {($Printer = Get-WmiObject win32_printer  | where {$_.name -match "<printer2>"})}
        Elseif ($prt3 -eq "True") {($Printer = Get-WmiObject win32_printer  | where {$_.name -match "<printer3>"})}
            Elseif ($prt4 -eq "True") {($Printer = Get-WmiObject win32_printer  | where {$_.name -match "<printer4> PCL5"})}
                Else {$Printer = ""}

$Printer.SetDefaultPrinter()
       
Printer Check Complete

Please to be enjoying

So i like a good consumer I updated my itunes to 9.2 today, and after it completed, 88 files are missing, 564 tv shows are showing as unplayed, and some of my music is now gone.  Thankfully the music had already been copied over to my Zune library, but the problem is that I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED. Its just gone.

Frankly though, my greater concern is the fact that even if I want to move to a computer’s product, like oh say….Zune, I can’t take my media with me.  Due to drm and failure to adhere to standards, Apple has assured that I will forever have to use this apple TV they don’t really want to support to view the files.  The container Apple uses for MP4 is an M4V with AC3 passthru, which is an unsupported hack to the MP4 codec container, therefore most other software won’t read it.  Combined with the DRM, you are locked forever into using this thing, no matter how laggy and crappy it is, since Apple doesn’t wanna actually upgrade the device. 

The lesson I’ve learned here is this, if you want interoperability and you want to insure your investment in media isn’t destroyed by a shitty software update….PIRATE. 

And they wonder why they can’t beat piracy?

Wii Games (50 coins after survey)
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
Endless Ocean
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Link’s Crossbow Training
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Party 8
Mario Strikers Charged
Mario Super Sluggers
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Pokemon Battle Revolution
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Paper Mario
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Wario Land: Shake It!
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Wii Fit (80 points)
Wii Music
Wii Play

Wii Shop Channel games and Wii Channels (10 coins after survey)
Alien Crush Returns
Art Style: Cubello
Art Style: Rotohex
Big Kahuna Party
Boingz
Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure
Brain Challenge
Bruiser and Scratch
Digital Champ Battle Boxing
Earthworm Jim
Enduro Racer
Forgotten Worlds
Gradius II Gofer No Yabou
Hockey Allstar Shootout
Home Sweet Home
Mega Man 3
Metal Slug 2
Pit Crew Panic!
Secret of Mana
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Space Harrier
Space Invaders Get Even
Space Invaders: The Original Game
Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition
Strong Bad Episode 3: Baddest of the Bands
Strong Bad Episode 4: Dangeresque 3
Strong Bad Episode 5: 8-bit is Enough
Sudoku Challenge!
Target Toss Pro: Bags
Tetris Party
The Incredible Maze
World of Goo
Yummy Yummy Cooking Jam

Nintendo DS Games (30 coins after survey)
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Big Brain Academy
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day
Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day
Clubhouse Games
Crosswords DS
Diddy Kong Racing
Electroplankton
Elite Beat Agents
Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day
Hotel Dusk: Room 215
Kirby Super Star Ultra
Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Mario Kart DS
Mario Party DS
Master of Illusion
Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir
New Super Mario Bros.
Nintendogs: Chihuahua and Friends
Nintendogs: Dalmatian and Friends
Nintendogs: Labrador Retriever and Friends
Nintendogs: Miniature Dachshund and Friends
Personal Trainer: Cooking
Planet Puzzle League
Pokemon Diamond
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness
Pokemon Pearl
Pokemon Ranger
Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Super Mario 64 DS
Tetris DS
Yoshi’s Island DS

 

I think the problem here is whether or not one multiplies or adds facepalms. Let f = a facepalm If it’s multiplication, then 2 facepalms is f * f = f^² But if it’s addition, then 2 facepalms is f + f = 2f Perhaps, though, it depends on what the facepalm is about. If one facepalms in shame of another’s facepalm, then we can define that as multiplication. Conversely, facepalming performed by two individuals with respect to the same event would be two of them, or 2f. Incidently, facepalming due to the above posters’ two facepalms would be f * (f + f) = 2f^² In the same line of thinking, this is the same as two people facepalming due to a single individual’s facepalm, such that (f + f) * f = 2f^² Therefore, facepalming is commutative.