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 18 Jul 2008
Having had the misfortune to be editing the partition table of one of our Oracle servers, I discovered that Grub 0.97 (the SLES SP1 variety) doesn’t play well with DL380 Smart Array Controllers. The magic auto detection that we’ve all grown to know and love just… it just doesn’t. Here’s how to regain that Grub magic…
Published by kyle on 21 Feb 2008
Looks 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.
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 24 Jan 2008
There’s a new set of photos up, from the various nights out over Christmas and New Year. I’ve also put together the NES Flickr pool, to which others can submit as well.
Published by kyle on 21 Nov 2007
I’d been looking at how to upgrade our Windows 2000 machines to XP at work recently, without losing all the data on them. We would normally just reimage them, and put up with the lost data, but that seemed awfully heavy handed. Nobody on the web seemed to have detailed how to do it with Zenworks, so I came up with my own method. In the process of writing it up for our wiki, I put on the web for others to use as a resource should they need it.
Published by kyle on 14 Sep 2007
For the curious amongst you. Yes it’s a mess…
This is also my first test a mobile blogging client. Nothing beats a full size qwerty keyboard though.
Published by kyle on 18 Dec 2006
Friday was the day of the Network Team Meeting. Got into work as usual at around 8am (there’s nothing like getting a lift in every morning to make sure you don’t bend flexitime all the way to 10am), did the morning duties and headed over to Central Quay. Meeting ensued, lunch followed and then we were in the pub by 3pm. It’s all a blur, but I do remember drunkenly asking Fearghas many work related things, which somehow ended up in a request for lingerie freebies for his wife from Charlotte… Yep, still really enjoying NES :-p
Published by kyle on 13 Dec 2006
What better way to deal with users, than with your very own Taser Cannon? 30 laser targeted taser darts each carrying 110kV at 15kA.
Alternatively, for the more brutal amongst you, there is the 200mph 2×4 Pitching Machine. There are videos available
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