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October 3, 2009

Windows 2003 / 2008 event logging to Syslog

I stumbled on a seemingly unique requirement this week to log file access for a Windows network share. Of importance, was the logging of object deletions, […]

October 12, 2009

TeamViewer for Remote Support

We’ve been using TeamViewer here to remotely connect to clients for about 2 months now. To say we have been impressed is an understatement. The ease […]

October 15, 2009

Exchange 2003 SMTP DATA command bug

This is an extract from a log file I’m looking at right now for an Exchange 2003 SMTP service… I sure as hell hope there’s just […]

October 19, 2009

Mousey mousey!

I’m a Mac convert. I have been working with Windows since 2003, and was always the Windows guy blah blah blah. Until I started using Linux […]

October 21, 2009

October 22nd!

Windows 7!!!!!! I’ve been using Windows 7 for a few months now, albeit virtualised, on my Mac, but I’ve been quite impressed with it. Running on […]

October 21, 2009

Netgear GA311 driver install weirdness?

Today’s weird tech problem, I had to replace a network card in a client’s machine today. Simple, right? The card was a Netgear GA311, running a […]

October 23, 2009

More TeamViewer

Checking through my stats, I’ve seen alot of hits from Google related to TeamViewer. I’m going to attempt to answer a few questions that I have […]

October 24, 2009

JUN’s Nissan 350Z, “improved”

I got linked to this from Cruising Brisbane, and all I can say is “wow”. This thing looks amazing, and the amount of fabrication work and […]

October 26, 2009

Server Recovery with Acronis

My boss forwarded me some emails from one of our client’s servers, dead disk, the usual. Get to the server, and it’s got nothing on the […]

November 6, 2009

Interesting uses of Google?

I love AWStats. I literally look at the stats for this website, and my other’s, multiple times every day… Stat’s junkie much? I’ve become quite analystic […]

November 7, 2009

TeamViewer $$^$&$##$!!!!

TeamViewer really doesn’t work too well if your connecting to a remote client and you need to test out their VPN connection… Trust me… As soon […]

November 7, 2009

Remote KVM Cards & Modular Servers

I had to install a PCI remote KVM card into a client’s server this afternoon. Oh how difficult that was!!! So, servers these days, are 99% […]

November 10, 2009

Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

I like to think I’m pretty good with the MacOS now, but let’s face it, there’s still a whole bunch of little things I’m still learning… […]

November 10, 2009

INB352 Network Planning links

These are just for my study reference for a network design / planning subject I’m doing at Uni. Routing Protocol Selection Testking CCSP 642-515 Exam Questions […]

November 10, 2009

First iPhone “Virus”

Interesting. Only affects jailbroken iPhones. I’m curious to see *how* it does this, but I’m taking an educated guess that the virus scans for iPhone’s with […]

December 11, 2009

Outlook 2010 + Social Networks

I thought this was super massive awesome cool plus plus!!!!!1111oneoneone I just installed the Office 2010 beta, and jumped in to my email quickly to grab […]

December 11, 2009

PHP Templating

I’ve always wanted to create a CMS system using PHP. I currently have an opportunity through my work to develop a custom form webapp for one […]

February 23, 2010

Macintosh Performance Guide: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Booting the 64-bit Kernel

I was stunned the other day when I was looking through my system info on my Snow Leopard equipped Mac Book Pro to find it was […]

March 2, 2010

Mac OS X Gaming

Having bought a Mac, I sort of stopped playing Counter Strike, in the absence of a mouse etc. I managed to have a crack at TOCA […]

March 3, 2010

Mac OS X Speedup Bits

I decided my Mac was running a bit slower, something I would usually refer to as the “Windows downhill effect”. Turns out Mac OS X has […]