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I knew IE9 was coming, but id didnt really care about when.... nor did i really care what features are included... im mean, its a browser... as long a i can write blog posts, check the news (world and gaming) and do my work - thats the guts of what matters for me. Anyhoo…
Continue readingMike Niehaus has posted a blog entry about issues and workarounds for WAIK Win 7 SP1..... realisticially, the guts of it is - dont use this version of the WAIK yet.... (do people even use the WAIK outside of MDT and SCCM ?) http://blogs.technet.com/b/mniehaus/archive/2011/03/12/issue-with-mdt-2010-update-1-and-windows-aik-for-windows-7-sp1-supplement.aspx
Continue readingA client of mine recently decided to move to Lync 2010 - from OCS 2007 - after having a chat with the technical specialist from MS. They were very happy with OCS 2007, but were keen on the hi-def video/voice, integrated client and dial-in conferencing (yes, they didnt go 2007 R2 just for that feature)…
Continue readinghttp://www.blaghag.com/2011/03/thanks-us-military-rock-beyond-belief.html no great surprise here..... coming from the country that values oil more than it own citizens lives and the evil dogma of child-molesting religious zealots more than reason.
Continue readinghttp://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/26/3149628.htm No great surprise here - i think my views on the topic have been expressed clearly before - but just to get it off my chest.... Freedom of choice is one of the most basic, core human rights that any person has a right to feel pissed off about losing. It is completely irrelevant…
Continue readingA client of mine recent came and asked about SCOM - their discovery process was running "forever" - and sure enough it was. The permissions looked fine, the SPN's had been set the SQL broker was enabled.... It turned out to be that the collation on the SQL server was set differently to the collation…
Continue readingI, like many other nerds, have applied SP1 to many of my Win7 and Win 2008 R2 boxes since its proper release to the web (im not/wasnt ball-sy enough to use the leaked OEM versions) First impressions of Hyper-V dynamic memory are quite good. I have, as expected, freed up a reasonable amount of memory…
Continue readingYears ago, we had a couple of clients that were really interested in OCS 2007 PIC, but thought it would of been ever so much more awesome (yes, english is my first language) if they were also able to do AV conferencing with these clients - but alas, different protocols meant this was a no…
Continue readingI purchased a wildcard SSL cert today - as sooooooo many things i want to do on the corporate network now require crl's... so i thought it be worth a little bit of money to remove the hassle of using my internal CA, publishing the crl etc. For this, i purchased a cheapy wildcard (at…
Continue readingAfter 4 months of trying to get an ISP to take my DSL line issues seriously, my new ISP finally got the line provider to check out the line, and im not getting a decent 13mb down/1.5mb up..... now while this isnt great, i've been using 2.5mb down/0.4mb up for the last 4 months…
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