Piper Alpha–the men
DaleI’m currently studying the Piper Alpha Disaster for a Work Health Safety Diploma. The following is an incomplete list of who was on the Piper Alpha at the time of…
CD/DVD (Recording) Session Left Open
and surprisingly enough, Windows 7 couldn’t read it. We suggested that the customer “finalize” their recording session if they plan on distributing their CDs to others. The screenshot (right) is…
Of course “voicewarmupx” makes perfect sense
as the value to enable Windows Installer logging. Windows includes a registry-activated logging service to help diagnose Windows Installer issues. This article describes how to enable this logging service. ……
Microsoft Cortana in the enterprise
A work in progress … Well our first issue is "Cortana is disabled by company policy". We MAY need to update our group policy files to the latest Windows 10…
Updating McAfee VirusScan Enterprise DAT files manually.
In short, go to http://www.mcafee.com/apps/downloads/security-updates/security-updates.aspx and download the DAT file. The install switches are as follows: Which seems much easier than following McAfee's instructions here: How to manually update the…
So what does the Group Policy Preferences Drive Mapping log file contain?
Once you enable the logging via Group Policy, you’ll end up with a log file which contains: Environment variable dump Group Policy settings Drive mapping lists (but not the actual…
The fun of buying Melbourne International Comedy Festival tickets
I see a lot of comedy during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF). *LOTS* As in 40+ shows this year. This means dealing with multiple ticketing agents, including 2 variants…
Using Samba for good
Knowing how much I love Samba, Adrian sent though a link on how to use Samba to block file encrypting viruses. The basic idea is to use fail2ban to block…
Windows 10 – “The properties for this item are not available”
There’s a bug with Windows 10 which prevents you from seeing the properties for a folder. To trigger it, you need to do the following: logon to Windows 10 with…
AppLocker and applications which install in the users profile directory.
(shout out to: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft's SharePoint Designer) Gee thanks guys. We implemented AppLocker to improve our IT security, and you chaps decided to be clever. The…