Vista DRM Bullshit

By | July 25, 2007

I called this Vista DRM Bullshit because this is my website and I am allowed to swear and secondly I am sick and tired of hearing this crap regurgitated again and again and again. So far, no big deal, just the usual morons sprouting this rubbish, then a couple of days ago this arrives in my inbox, from… Read More »

Cygwin on Vista

By | June 6, 2007

I have been running Vista for a while now and I am just trying to get up to speed with what works and what does not work and why. One thing I use all the time is Poderosa http://en.poderosa.org/ with Cygwin, this gives a great command line tool with full cut and paste options, it is also a… Read More »

Moving Windows to a new server

By | January 22, 2007

Or I should have called this creative use of Microsoft software mirroring ! I have stuffed around with this for a while now and found something this morning that works. WASP is our big daddy server that does just about everything, it is also 6 years old and I really do not want to reinstall it, there is… Read More »

EventSentry versus MOM 2005

By | May 29, 2006

I recently decided that we needed something here to monitor the events on our Windows servers. A long time ago we used to use Logcaster but that got too pricey for us and we dumped it, the idea being to go to Microsoft MOM, see (http://www.microsoft.com/mom/default.mspx for Microsoft Operations Manager Home). At that stage I tried MOM 2000,… Read More »