December 9, 2018

Basics of Cmdlets

Cmdlets are at the core of PowerShell. As already noted in The object-oriented model, a cmdlet is a specialised .NET object, with output formatting that makes sense to an administrator. In this article, we discuss the following: Getting help information for a cmdlet Parameter sets Positional parameters Help on specific parameters Assigning values to a parameter Getting help information for a cmdlet Let us pick a common cmdlet: Get-ChildItem, a simple, useful cmdlet.

November 11, 2018

A brief history of Windows

Among all the jazz of ClearType fonts and graphics, we often take for granted what is actually some serious task—running the hardware of a computer. Ever wondered how different the actual working of a computer is, compared to what we see on the screen? In reality, it’s overwhelmingly difficult to imagine how computers work, especially today. It’s hard to believe that two voltage-based states of a bunch of transistors and gates are able to show to us what we see on the screen.