Category: Work

Track-It Madness

August 31, 2008 - Technology , Windows , Work , Zenworks - by admin - No Comments

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.

Grub on a DL380

July 18, 2008 - Computers , Geek , Linux , Work - by admin - No Comments

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 […]

Vodafone 3G

February 21, 2008 - Geek , Technology , Work - by admin - No Comments

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.

Windows XP SP3

February 5, 2008 - Windows , Work - by admin - No Comments

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 […]

NES Flickr Photos

January 24, 2008 - Friends , Work - by admin - No Comments

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.