Eighteen hours into the much hyped first days of Confickers new update cycle (started at 00h00 local time on the 1st of April), and surprisingly the Internet has not melted down. Masses of FUD have been spread, and probably a LOT of AV product has been sold. What has been a positive spinoff of this [...]
18 hours on we havent had a meltdown
April 1st, 2009 · No Comments
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Remote Desktop Annoyances with Nvidia drivers
October 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments
For the last few months I’ve been plagued by the inability to at times remote desktop to some of my Windows XP based system. While not critical, it is nice to be able to connect home and carry on working on a document/email I was busy with before departing to work. After some hunting, I [...]
Tags: Applications · Systems Administration · Windows
Migrating URLs with apache and mod_rewrite
June 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Having now migrated to WordPress from my own very customised version of phpBloxsom, which ran the previous incarnation of this blog, Ive been left with the issue of dealing with all the sites pulling my RSS feeds. With the change of software has come a change of url for the location of the feeds. Apache’s [...]
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XP failing to hibernate
May 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
The problem For some time my Laptop and Desktop XP systems have been misbehaving, intermittently when going into hibernate, the desktop much more since it got its upgrade to 4 gigs of Ram. Symptoms include just going blank with heaps of hard disk activity and then just sitting with the HDD light flickering, or stating [...]
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