Archive for February, 2008

Published by kyle on 22 Feb 2008

Are we still terrorists?

It would appear so…

To: postmaster@cityoflondon.police.uk
CC: Kenny.MacAskill.msp@scottish.parliament.uk, public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Dear City of London Police,

I see that we still have not had a response to this request for information. Please can you provide the answers that we seek, or suggest alternative routes to go down. If we are to be arrested without good reason, we would like to know how best to respond to the incorrect assumptions made by the police.

Regards

Kyle

Buildings, Computers, Internet, Openstreetmap, Things that annoy Kyle, United Kingdom, Urban Exploration

Published by kyle on 21 Feb 2008

Vodafone 3G

DSC00021Looks like someone has taken design classes from Apple, and failed. It is, however, still rather dinky and shiny. Now, if only Vodafone would activate them before they send them out to us, like they used to.

Geek, Technology, Work

Published by kyle on 05 Feb 2008

Windows XP SP3

Sadly, some of us have to test these things before they go public. At work, WSUS will hold it back until I approve it for deployment. Whether I choose to let it loose to one machine, or 700, depends on how well it passes testing.

For those of you in a similar situation, modifying the registry with the following command will enable download of XP SP3 from Microsoft Update

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\XPSP3 /v RCPreview /t REG_SZ /d 1c667073-b87f-4f52-a479-98c85711d869 /f

If you wish to reinstate your machine to a previous state of update eligibility, use the following registry command

reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\XPSP3 /f

Those of you running Vista SP1 will already be aware of  a similar hack, and it shows an increasing trend by Microsoft of using their update mechanism to deliver betas and RCs ahead of a full deployment. In the long run, it makes it nice and easy to prep a machine for testing.

Windows, Work

Published by kyle on 05 Feb 2008

KDE4 on Windows…

It had to be done :-) KDE4 on Windows, in VMWare on Linux…

KDE on Windows on Linux

Geek, KDE, Linux, Windows

Published by kyle on 03 Feb 2008

Free cooker

cimg6333 A free cooker to the first taker. It’s all in nice working order, has been kept mostly clean by Charlotte, and has loyally prevented us from starving on many an occasion.

Collect from Yoker.

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