Published by kyle on 31 Aug 2008
Sadly we’re having to migrate to Track-It at work, and muggins here has been tasked with ensuring the agent can deploy nicely. After some initial crazyness with manual installs, or login script launched installs, I managed to wrap it into an MSI. Details can be found over here.
Published by kyle on 05 Feb 2008
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.
Published by kyle on 05 Feb 2008
It had to be done 
KDE4 on Windows, in VMWare on Linux…
Published by kyle on 14 Sep 2007
I was recently asked if it was possible to get software RAID functionality on Windows Professional. Although Microsoft would like you to believe otherwise, it is possible. By default, Windows 2000 and XP Professional offer RAID0 (Striping), but not any of the other RAID levels. We won’t go into the debate on whether RAID0 is real RAID or not…
The information on how to do it has been around for a few years now, but Microsoft and their followers have managed to flood Googles results with information on alternative versions of Windows. Be prepared to mess with a hex editor and dll files. Read the rest at Shaggy’s software-raid page
Published by kyle on 03 Sep 2007
Lately a Howto has appeared, detailing how to set up iSCSI on Linux. I first set up and used iSCSI almost 2 years ago, back when it was a little known buzzword. Microsoft were still on v1 of their free initiator, UNH had theirs, and linux-iscsi seemed to be the most promising and workable initiator around. Now it’s beginning to compete with FC and Netapp kit, Dell are hedging their bets on VM machines on iSCSI backends, and Open-iSCSI rule the roost.
Published by kyle on 23 Aug 2007
Recently Linux-Watch.com ran an article on how to do the same job as Windows Home Server with Linux. It’s annoying that people, even those qualified enough to write articles on prominent websites, seem to fall victim to misunderstanding what various platforms offer. Continue Reading »
Published by kyle on 02 Apr 2007
I’ve been hunting for a decent calendaring protocol system for a while now, and been investigating ITIP, IMIP, iCal, xmlrpc, caldav, and finally WCAP. Having initially settled on WCAP, as a result of having a fairly decent plugin available for Lightning, I set about trying to find a decent Calendar server.
Whilst digging around for decent calendar servers and Lightning providers, I encountered the GDATA Provider for Google Calendar and Lightning or Sunbird. It allows me to hook up Lightning to my Google Calendar. Admittedly, it’s not my own private server, but given that I’ve been using Google for calendering instead of eGroupware for the past 6 months, it’s better than just a browser. One day eGroupware will have better integration with Lightning, and I may consider moving over (xmlrpc support in Korganizer is excellent), but in the meantime I’m stuck with Google calendar and Thunderbird on Linux and Windows. So go support GDATA and WCAP for KOrganizer, or XMLRPC for Thunderbird
Published by kyle on 14 Feb 2007
I used to deal with Linux in Active Directory quite a bit, especially with Winbind, Samba and Active Directory. It’s amazing how quickly things change, and I already feel as if my knowledge is atrophying at an exponential rate… Continue Reading »
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