By now it will be apparent I have not posted any work related content here for a good while. The reason is mostly that we are hideously busy with end of year stuff.
Here is a useful code snippet. How to get a ping log with nice neat output, with the time and date displayed. It is great when you are having problems with your internet connectivity and need a continuous log of pings at a particular time/date.
@echo off
:top
for /F "tokens=*" %%i in ('ping 1.2.3.4 -n 1') do set Pingresult=%%i
echo %time% %date% %Pingresult% >>pingrg.txt
echo %time% %date% %Pingresult%
goto top
Basically this tells the Windows shell command interpreter to:
- Do a single ping and store the results in an environment variable called Pingresult
- Send one line of text to the end of a text file
- Send the same line of text to the screen.
- Repeat infinitely.
Now for more substance. We are working through various things including buying lots of new computers so I expect that some of the process of deploying a large number of new Windows 7 computers for students will be written about here within the holiday period that is starting soon.
