Incident Response – Preserving Evidence
DaleNigel Phair, in the CSO Magazine Australia Opinion column (2006), wrote the following guidelines. I do believe they still apply 3 years later: Identify and gather relevant pieces of information…
Quick way of detecting the operating system running on a list of computers
The Microsoft Sysinternals PsInfo utility can do that for you. PsInfo is a command-line tool that gathers key information about the local or remote Windows system. Today’s example is how…
Dear Europcar, if you want my feedback, you should make it easy.
I'm giving you information to improve your business. If I don't want to provide my phone number to you, you should not force me to by producing the error: Please…
Six Sigma definitions
Some Six Sigma definitions which I’ve collected over time. Term Definition CTQs Critical To Quality. The sort list of the most important customer wants. Customer Any internal/external person/organisation who receives…
Determining your MTU, and why you should care.
When we talk about networking, sometimes we’ll talk about Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) packet sizing. I briefly referred to MTUs in the SSL errors, and how to diagnose them post.…
Seen @ blogs.msdn.com: “Driver Packages and Drivers- Shall We Disambiguate?”
I’ve been around application packaging and SOE development for a while now, but I still found this blog post interesting as it covers off the following points: What is a…
Learning T-SQL – Revisited
In my current job, I get to write data extracts. eg. extract data from an SQL database, using Microsoft Access as the front-end. Not my preferred tool, but it's what…
Seen @ blogs.technet.com: W2K3 to W2K8 Active Directory Upgrade Considerations
W2K3 to W2K8 Active Directory Upgrade Considerations I have collected some upgrade considerations from a couple colleagues of mine and have been sharing them on our internal technical DLs as…
Shame about the seat …
Had the chance to take the Peugeot 308 for a spin the other day. A basic no-frills bottom-of-the-range XS Peugeot 308. And it wasn’t bad at all. At $26,990 list…
“Use of HP UPD is in my experience counter productive.”
Use of HP UPD is in my experience counter productive. If you need to print to HP use the CLJ 9500MFP PS driver (or PCL6 or PCL5c if you must).…