Australia Day – buy your kids a job
DaleAh, Australia Day, the day the British rowed ashore and claimed Australia for King George III. Since 1988, it has been claimed by the politicians as a way to glad-hand…
Microsoft SMS 2003 goes extended support
SMS 2003 going extended support is not a real surprise. It’s replacement, Microsoft SCCM 2007, has been out in the market place since November 2007. It isn’t that big a…
Semi-regular web-link clearance (2) – January 2010
Dealing with VMs, Snapshots and the dreaded broken security channel The problem with that perfect world is that you might want to snapshot a single machine to perform a what-if…
Remove hidden data from Microsoft Office documents.
I was sent a word document with "hidden data" in it. "Hidden data" in Microsoft Word documents can be one of several bits of information, such as hidden data, change…
Reading the end of a log file with PowerShell
I needed to read the last line of a log file. PowerShell made it very, very, easy. All you need to do is Get-Content the file, and then pipe it…
The 5 most popular posts of 2009
All about InstallShield Command Line Switches How to open the Seagate FreeAgent Go External Drive Melbourne Airport Live Flight Radar (the blog post is gone, Melbourne Airport link here) Windows…
Windows System State Analyzer – Windows 7
People familiar with Wise Package Studio “Setup Capture” can leave now. Everyone else read on!. Windows System State Analyser analyser allows you to take a “before” and “after” snapshot of…
Another day, another HP annoyance
On a HP DC7800 system, where do you think the Hardware Virtualization Technology setting might be? Yes, that’s right. It’s in the Security section of the BIOS. Unlike Steve Gibson,…
A week with the Myki smartcard
Myki is the new ““smartcard”” travelcard which is to be used on public transport here. Trains, trams and buses. 3 years late, $350 million dollars over budget, and it’s failed…