Live PowerShell With Karl Prosser

So i was listening to that Dust Brother’s Tyler Durden song from fight club, and PowerShell lyrics started jumping into my head. We’ll most were fleeting before i could capture them, but i did come up with something at least tacky, and fun to some. No offense to anybody. Anyway here is the original song. Listen to it once to get the picture, then a second time while reading my lyrics. Here is a link to the original lyrics.

This is your Admin Life

And you open the door and you step inside
We’re inside our servers

Now imagine that that Blue Screen is a white ball of healing light
That’s right, that exception itself is a white ball of healing light

I don’t think so

This is your job , Good to the last cpu cycle.
It doesn’t get any better than this.
This is your job and its ending one click at a time.

This isn’t your favourite tech conference. This isn’t no geek class.
Where you are now, you can’t even imagine what the bottom will be like
Only after disaster, will your server need resurrected.
Its only after you’ve lost everything that you’ll learn to script anything.
Nothing is static, everything is Dynamic
Without no agile script, it’s all falling apart.

This is your job.
(Without PowerShell)
It doesn’t get any better than this.
This is your job
And its ending one click at a time.

You are not a beautiful and unique engineer.
You are the same decaying GUI based admin  as everybody else.
We are all part of the same time consuming life draining Slavehood
We are the all cringing,ever working info-saviours of the world

You are not your dollarstore tech certification.
You are not your Antivirus failure.
You are not your dumbed down GUI management tools.

You are not your HR employee primary key
You are not your Active Directory login.
You are not your CIO’s latest tech fad.
You are not your hungover 70′s unix shell script.

You have to Code PowerShell.
You have to Code PowerShell.

You have to realize that someday GUI admins will be unemployed
Until you know that, you are useless.

I say never let me be GUI dependant
I say may I never be content.
I say deliver me from MMC console ripoffs.
I say deliver me from VBscript.
I say deliver me from misunderestimating linux zealots.
I say you have to PowerShell
I saw grow, and let the scripts run where they may

This is your job.
(Without PowerShell)
It doesn’t get any better than this.
This is your job
And its ending one click at a time.

You have to Code PowerShell
You have to Code PowerShell

I want you to script me as hard as you can.
I want you to script me as hard as you can.

Welcome to #powershell Club. If this is your first night, you have to code.

Enjoy – Karl