MaxPatchCacheSize and Windows 7
DaleSo I was building a Windows 7 virtual machine, so I could play “Gardens of Time” as GoT doesn’t work on my Windows 2008 R2 box …, and I went…
The Case of the Windows FTP.EXE not working from the corporate network.
The heading alone should tell you the answer, particularly if I add ACTIVE FTP to it. You see, most Corporate IT people consider ACTIVE FTP a bad thing, and block…
Setting up wireless IP cameras–some further bits
Back on the 5th December, I wrote about how to setup outdoor wireless surveillance cameras. I’ve had a couple emails asking questions, so here are the replies: What do you…
Now won’t Facial Recognition be interesting …
Or are those girls in the Facebook ads real??? And the answer, for at least half the time is YES and NO. YES they’re real, and NO they’re not looking…
Setting up wireless IP cameras
With Nikki coming to stay, I expected that she would have some “separation anxiety” issues. I wanted to make sure she wasn’t fretting too much when I was not home. …
VBscript to get the system uptime from a group of computers
One of our corporate customers doubted that we had computers being left powered on overnight. So I quickly wrote the script below to query each computer’s uptime. The record uptime? …
So you’re missing the MSI source package
It is one of the great annoyances with Roaming Profiles and MSI-based installs, that if you reformat your PC, you can lose the link to your MSI package. Here’s today’s…
How to uninstall all versions of a particular piece of software.
We’re in the mist of doing an Adobe Acrobat Reader upgrade, and one of my co-workers found this place of code on the net. The vbscript loops though WMI’s Win32_Product,…
One way to anonymise live data for test use
Take your table/spreadsheet with your live data and sort ONLY the field holding the surname into A –> Z order sort ONLY the field holding the first name into Z…
From Windows Vista, Microsoft changed the versioning of system files.
And that’s a good thing. A colleague at work today said You can tell whether a system file is a Service Pack 1 file based on the version number… Huh?…