I’m trying, and on the whole failing, to do stuff with ansible.windows.win_dsc:
To get the list of ‘parameters’ for the particular DSC resource you’re mucking about with you can do this:
Get-DscResource sqlrs | select -expand properties
Name PropertyType IsMandatory Values
---- ------------ ----------- ------
DatabaseInstanceName [string] True {}
DatabaseServerName [string] True {}
InstanceName [string] True {}
DependsOn [string[]] False {}
Encrypt [string] False {Mandatory, Optional, Strict}
PsDscRunAsCredential [PSCredential] False {}
ReportServerReservedUrl [string[]] False {}
ReportServerVirtualDirectory [string] False {}
ReportsReservedUrl [string[]] False {}
ReportsVirtualDirectory [string] False {}
RestartTimeout [UInt32] False {}
SuppressRestart [bool] False {}
UseSsl [bool] False {}
I’m walking the Clarendon Way from Winchester to Salisbury
I’m collecting donations for Farleigh Hospice, who helped look after my dad at the end of his life. Link is below, in case anyone in Fedi-land fancies chipping in
This chap, who played for Solent Kestrels in #Southampton, England, is as I understand it guaranteed an NBA Championship ring.
He played for both the Spurs and the Knicks this season
The really big names might be very familiar indeed – Elton John, Paul McCartney, Queen, the Who, the Rolling Stones, ELO – but the terms in which they’re discussed are frequently not. “Is Your Fave Rave Rock Star Old Enough to Be Your Father?” screams an [1976] NME cover: inside there’s a spread of pictures featuring most of the above, beneath the damning headline “All the People On This Page Will Be 30 Or Over During The Next Year – How Will They Live With It?”
‘I knew it was over for us’: the bands who got left behind when punk exploded - The Guardian
How to create a shortcut that always runs something, in this case MS Terminal, as admin
Right-click somewhere on the desktop and do Create Shortcut, then stick in wt.exe
Give it a name
That creates the shortcut. Next right-click it and do ‘Properties’
Click ‘Advanced’
Tick the box to ‘Run as administrator’
“Introducing the panel, Cadwalladr said: “I think this might be a Hay first, in which we have an author in a hostage situation. Blink once if you can hear us, Sarah, twice if [Mark] Zuckerberg is an asshole.”
At the end of the event, Wynn-Williams received a standing ovation from the audience, during which she was moved to tears.”
Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
“When I get to heaven, I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.”
Winston Churchill the Painter, Wallace Collection, London, to Nov 29
A sad comment in the paper. Meera Syal on the death of her parents
“I felt doubly orphaned because I had lost my living link with India”
Caption on the big photo on the front page of today’s Times.
Television critic Kevin McCloud, the Grand Designs presenter, has said he finds reality TV “slightly exploitative”.
If the King, or the Prime Minister, or Tommy Tuchel had said reality TV was “extremely exploitative” and should be abolished immediately, then that would seem to me to be a front page thing.
Kevin McCloud saying it’s slightly so….I’m not sure
Probably why I’m a computer monkey and not a journalist
In the paper today
[Agatha] Christie once said she got the ideas for her novels while eating apples in the bath
Not something I’ve ever done
First time this year I’ve had to oil up to take the dog out.
This is party meteorological, and partly just me being lazy
#WearSunscreen
I use what I know as ‘the Windows Run Box’ quite a bit - the command prompt that pops up when you do Windows Key and R together.
It keeps a history, which is great until you make a mistake. I tried editing out such a mistake in the Registry. The history is in:
HKEY_USERS\user id, or possibly a user sid\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU
The easiest way to find the key is to search for whatever mistake it was that you made e.g. if you typed ggvim by mistake, then search for that.
I did this on 28th May….I’ll delete this post if I subsequently find that my laptop is mucked up beyond all recognition :)
I finished watching ‘Salisbury Poisonings: The Untold Story’
It was weird to watch. Bits of town I know really well. Bits I don’t. Lovely shots of the cathedral. My football chum Salah in Episode 3.
And then this awful tragedy, and unfathomably bad people.
A young friend, who’s not from these islands, just got a job in an Irish pub.
I’m worried that this will put her off Irish music forever
The swifts are back at Salisbury station 😀
(TBF they look like they could be bits of dirt on my phone lens in these pics, you’ll have to take my word for it)
Sad for my Saints-supporting chums, both for losing the chances of promotion and because I don’t know what will happen to the players and management. Up until now they had been doing pretty well.
BBC News - Spygate appeal: Southampton lose appeal against expulsion from play-offs - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/foo…
Call me shallow but I’m quite pleased that even though the Arsenal have won the Premiership for the first time in 20-odd years, it’s not even the top football story of the day 😀
⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc #Southampton
Jeepers Southampton making the TV main news, not just the sports news
It’s only usually Chelsea that ever do that ! ⚽
My Crucial Track for 16 May 2026 - “A Girl Named Johnny Cash” by Jane Morgan
Share a song released 2+ years ago that you recently discovered.
I love this song.
I like funny songs, and this one is an answer record to one of my favourite funny songs, A Boy Named Sue
It’s very witty, there are musical references to other Johnny Cash songs throughout, and it’s got a happy ending.
You can’t ask for more than that :)
“A Girl Named Johnny Cash” by Jane Morgan on Apple Music
This is from Crucial Tracks. My profile is here.
More thoughts on yesterday ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc
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we didn’t seem to get refereeing decisions going our way. Lots of minor ones favoured City
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Cucarella was daft to get booked for dissent, though
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watching the Cup Final on telly I get weirdly emotional during Abide With Me. I didn’t at all in the Stadium. I don’t know why not, but it’s probably just as well
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I’ll still have it at my funeral though. Not Angels, not Atmosphere ( either the Joy Division or the Russ Abbot), nor Monty ruddy Python
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we looked a zillion times better than we did when City beat us 0-3 at the Bridge
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they pressed really well
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it was the first time I’ve seen a royal since 1977
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McFarlane set us up really well. It worked in that we went to to toe with the best team in the country and only conceded a very good goal
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a big name manager is only important because fans and players think it is
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…..but that’s probably reason enough why you do have to get one
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I used to laugh at Pep’s justification for selling us Cole - they had to sell Cole to get Doku. Doku does now look that good
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their bench was quite a bit stronger than ours
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Sanchez is a good keeper. He kept us in the game against Leeds, and didn’t put a foot wrong against City
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Caicedo is one of my favourite ever Chelsea players, but he looked 50% of what he was earlier in the season
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a bloke next-but-one to us was telling the players to shoot all the time. A couple of times when it would have needed a 30-yard backheel
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I think we’ve recently paid the price for playing in the World Club Cup last summer. Partly physically and partly mentally.
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I wonder if part of the reason that some of the players didn’t get on with Rosenior was because they were a bit fed up, and tetchy, and generally in need of a decent break
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we didn’t see any pro Palestinian marchers
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we did see some of the Unite the Nation people at Waterloo. Odd coves, as Wodehouse might say. The Christian -type ones were very sinister
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I think it was probably called Unite the Kingdom. It couldn’t be more misnamed, whatever.
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we were sat near some flag-y people on the train on the way back. Couldn’t help hearing what they were saying….nothing racist, or unpleasant, but just deluded about all sorts of stuff.
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They were probably good people in many ways, but the way they came up with weird ideas about things fitted with the notion that Tommy or Nigel are people to trust
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I know it sounds patronising but I did feel sorry for them
