Month: May 2013

  • Malayalam TV

    Like most of the older folk in my ethnic community, my grandparents enjoy watching Malayalam television programming. They had jumped on the satellite bandwagon a few years ago and got good mileage out of it. However, at the end of 2011, Asianet, one of the primary channels they watch, moved from Insat 2E to Intelsat…

  • Coloured directory listings in PowerShell

    By default, PowerShell outputs drab directory listings. Unfortunately, there’s no built in solution to turning on colour, but it is possible with a few steps. This StackOverflow post gets us most of the way there. Towards the bottom of the question is some code that enables colourised output. I’ve modified it to suit my purposes…