scripting

Downloading files on a dodgy network connection

Apr 19, 2022 commandline scripting

Downloading Files on a Dodgy Network Connection. I was on holiday this weekend and the place we stayed didn't have a strong internet connection. It was good enough for browsing, but not good enough for multiple people streaming stuff off of the internet. So we wanted to pull down some files from our media library …

Unattended Wse Install

Mar 2, 2012 scripting installs

I’ve been on a project where a number of prerequisites needed scripting and we’re provided in the MSI format. This is the Microsoft Installer format. There are a number of switches you can use which can streamline an application install. Problem was that the way our installing system operates here, the execution …

Oracle Oui Silent Installs

Oct 7, 2008 Oracle Scripting

I’ve been working on this all week and I finally made a breakthrough for this today. The task at hand was to automate the install of the Oracle Data Access Components for OLE DB for 10g. At my work we prefer to script everything so if anyone gets knocked down by a bus, someone else should be able to just run the script …