Blog dedication "But ya f#$% one goat..."

Hi All,

Here's my first blog ever!

This afternoon I was writing some powershell code and I was one keystroke away from destroying most of my virtual enivornment and I thought I'd start technology blog that was dedicated to techos who have been dogged by there mistakes.

If you don't know what "But ya f#$% one goat..." reference means here's the Joke below.

A Scottish old timer in Scotland, in a bar, talking to a young man. The Old Man says, "Lad, look out there to the field. Do ya see that fence? Look how well it's built. I built that fence stone by stone with me own two hands. I piled it for months.""But do they call me McGreggor-the-Fence-Builder? Nooo..."Then the old man gestured at the bar.

"Look here at the bar. Do ya see how smooth and just it is? I planed that surface down by me own achin' back. I carved that wood with me own hard labour, for eight days.""But do they call me McGreggor-the-Bar-builder? Nooo...

"Then the old man points out the window. "Eh, Laddy, look out to sea...Do ya see that pier that stretches out as far as the eye can see? I built that pier with the sweat off me back. I nailed it board by board.""But do they call me McGreggor-the-Pier-Builder? Nooo...

"Then the old man looks around nervously, trying to make sure no one is paying attention."But ya fuck one goat..."

For those who'd like to delete all of there virtual machines here's a great one liner for you. you'll need to install VI tookit before you can do any of this. To get it go here http://vmware.com/go/powershell.

No warranty blah blah blah

get-vm *remove-vm -deletefromdisk -confirm:$false

Essentialy you use the get-vm command to list all your virtual machines you then pipe it to remove-vm to the remove-vm. Then -confirm:$false supresses confirmation. $false is pre defined variable in powershell user get-var to check out the rest.

Remember everyone makes mistakes especially people who are lazy and copy paste code with out releasing there impact.

Cheers,

SteveD