Well I know I have been pretty quiet recently I have been training for the Rob Roy Challenge (http://www.robroychallenge.com). Any way, last week I renewed my contract with Virgin Mobile and got a Nokia XM 5800. Up until now I have been using my iPod touch for music and syncing with exchange and imap email, my Nokia 6300 for making calls and sending txts, and my Samsung Digimax i6 pmp digital camera for taking photo’s. Well it could be that this is all about to change. Nokia designed this Touch screen smart phone as their answer to the iPhone....
Yesterday I attended a meeting hosted at another law firm on behalf of ILTA (International Legal Technology Association) aimed at legal firms on ISO 27001, it is something that I haven really looked at until now. I am sure that many of you have heard it being thrown about, along side BS7799. ISO 27001 is the replacement for the original document, BS7799-2. It is basically an Information Security Management Standard (from what I can gather). Up until yesterday I thought that it was a based around IT security but I was wrong, it is about Information Security. ...
I haven’t even looked at powershell yet with Windows Server 2008, that is next on my list, but i wanted to make it a bit easier to do things like rename my server, join it to a domain, and remove it from a domain, without having to always type netdom join %computername% /Domain:DomainName /UserD:DomainAdmin /PasswordD:* /REBoot or netdom renamecomputer %computername% /NewName:NewName etc… so I decided to create 3 batch files that will do this for me and prompt you for the required info needed: Username, Domain Name, Computer Name and password. The first batch file was called rensrv.bat...
I decided to install just the core or windows server 2008 Ent, the install was pretty quick even considering that it was on a virtual. Once it was installed I really wasn’t too sure on what to expect, I think that I was expecting a Unix/Linux like boot screen where you see a load of devices, drivers and services starting, however I had to admit I was some what disappointed as all you got was the server 2008 splash screen. Once booted up it then prompted me to press ctrl+alt+del, huh! what’s all this about I thought that there...
I installed a virtual copy of Windows Server 2008 Ent Core last week and have been playing around with it recently, my only problem is that I cannot telnet to it, I can telnet to any server from it, but there is no way to install Telnet server on to it. Now I do not know if this is just me or if you just cannot do it? any way I am planning to install Core onto a physical box in the next few days and I am slowly building up a list commands the first commands I...
I installed Storage Server basic last week and didn’t get very far with it, I then noticed that there was a 64 bit version available to download from TechNet so I kick that off and installed Windows Storage Server 2008 Standard on my test machine. I then installed the tools that came with the download and I could then start providing virtual disks to my other test servers over my GB network. All my test machines only have single NIC’s so I found a couple of spare NIC’s kicking around and installed them in the Storage server, and...
I decided to install just the core or windows server 2008 Ent, the install was pretty quick even considering that it was on a virtual. Once it was installed I really wasn’t too sure on what to expect, I think that I was expecting a Unix/Linux like boot screen where you see a load of devices, drivers and services starting, however I had to admit I was some what disappointed as all you got was the server 2008 splash screen. Once booted up it then prompted me to press ctrl+alt+del, huh! what’s all this about I thought that there...
I was looking through my TechNet Subscription today and noticed that Windows Storage Server 2008 was available for download. I have been using Windows Storage Server 2003 on and off now as it is only a 30 day eval so be running it and then re-installing it and running it again for testing clustering and the like. So I thought if it is on TechNet then it must be like all the TechNet Software, the full version for testing. So like a true Techie I downloaded it and burnt to DVD and installed. The installation is identical to...
I have been using both of these online music streaming sites for some time now and really finding it hard to decide which one I should stick with. They are both really good services. Last.fm is totally free, however you can only create a radio station to listen to and it will stream all types of tracks related to your artist search. Spotify has two services, the Free service that has Ads every now and then and the premium service which is £9.99 a month I believe that contains no ads. Quality wise, through cheap ish head phones there...
Last night I decided to download Spotify on to my Windows 7 Laptop, I had it running on my PC in the office no problems and I do like the ability to search a wide selection of “CD’s” online and then playing them. Well during the install on my laptop I kept getting a virus alert from McAfee saying the Spotify contained a virus and that the exe file had been deleted, Handy hey! To get it up and running I had to add an exception into the ePO server to exclude Spotify.exe from the On Access Scan policy....