Automatically encrypting Firefox web pages
Daleto stop snooping eyes from viewing what you’re doing. Well you could use the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox plugin by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The idea is simple. You go to…
Solutions evolve
Remember that solutions evolve: The initial preventive action will be based on the evidence at the time and previous experience. If it appears to address the cause then well and…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – July 2010
Suggested reading from the Microsoft Directory Services team. Lots of good entry level reading here to help you brush up your Active Directory skills. Troubleshooting, Known Issues and General Resources…
Finally learnt what a VESDA is.
Been working around Computer Data Centres for years, and they’re all had VESDA fire detection systems. Until the other day, I never needed to know how they worked. As the…
SMS Client Health Startup Script and Cross Domain logons.
I’m in the process of piloting the DudeWorks/1E/Shaun Cassells SMS SCCM Client Health script. I’ve set it up so it runs in the user’s logon script. But there’s a bug…
“I recommend we build a tracking database”
I am always reminded of this Dilbert cartoon whenever a customer has a large complex problem at work, and some genius suggests “We’ll build a database”. Or frequently, we’ll implement…
The name of the actress in the Dare Iced Coffee TV ads is
Melanie Vallejo. You can see her IMDB profile here. You might have recognised her from the TV series Power Rangers Mystic Force. (Melanie was the Blue Mystic Ranger).
How to open an InstallShield Data .cab file.
Some program installations use InstallShield, and the program files are compressed into Data .cab files. But InstallShield decided to be cute, and use their own propriety format with older versions…
“What is this ‘Furphy’ you refer to?
Or when I stopped using Australian slang in international telephone calls. May 22, 2003. When the CA Unicenter Remote Product started up on Windows 98SE, it would do a network…
Detecting broken or not installed SMS/SCCM clients.
You take all your computer accounts in Active Directory, filter out the old records (I use a cut-off of 30 days), and then compare it to your SMS or SCCM…