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Powershell Remoting to a Non-Domain Host

From an admin shell, enable PS remoting on the machine you wish to access:

New-ItemProperty -Name LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy `
  -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System `
  -PropertyType DWord -Value 1

Enable-PsRemoting -Force

This can reduce files to ~15% of their size (2.3M to 345K, in one case) with no obvious degradation of quality.

ghostscript -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Other options for PDFSETTINGS:

/screen selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Screen Optimized" setting.
/ebook selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "eBook" setting.
/printer selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting.
/prepress selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting.

	<?php
	/**
	* Class for interacting with an SMB server using the system command "smbclient".
	* Of course this assumes that you have the smbclient executable installed and
	* in your path.
	*
	* It is not the most efficient way of interacting with an SMB server -- for instance,
	* putting multiple files involves running the executable multiple times and
	* establishing a connection for each file. However, if performance is not an
	* issue, this is a quick-and-dirty way to move files to and from the SMB

	# ====================================================================
	# Author: 凍仁翔 / chusiang.lai (at) gmail.com
	# Blog: http://note.drx.tw
	# Filename: ks.cfg.
	# Modified: 2015-02-25 10:20
	# Description: Kickstart Configurator for Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS server (amd64)
	# Reference:
	#
	# 1. 作業系統自動安裝應答 CD 製作 - kickstart \| iThome Download
	# - http://download.ithome.com.tw/article/index/id/1792

	#!/usr/bin/env php
	<?php
	/////////////////////
	// slack2html
	// by @levelsio
	/////////////////////
	//
	/////////////////////
	// WHAT DOES THIS DO?
	/////////////////////

	<?
	/////////////////////
	// slack2html
	// by @levelsio
	/////////////////////
	//
	/////////////////////
	// WHAT DOES THIS DO?
	/////////////////////
	//

	<?php

	// @rodneyrehm
	// http://stackoverflow.com/a/7917979/99923
	class ParensParser
	{
	// something to keep track of parens nesting
	protected $stack = null;
	// current level
	protected $current = null;

	#requires -Version 2

	$maximumRuntimeSeconds = 3

	$process = Start-Process -FilePath powershell.exe -ArgumentList '-Command Start-Sleep -Seconds 4' -PassThru

	try
	{
	$process \| Wait-Process -Timeout $maximumRuntimeSeconds -ErrorAction Stop
	Write-Warning -Message 'Process successfully completed within timeout.'