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 »

Make a normal user a local admin

By | January 1, 2007

I just set up something which is fairly useful, I had a hard time finding anything much about it on the Internet, I needed to make a new guy we have working for us a local admin on each machine in the domain without making him a domain admin, also not forgetting we have English and French systems,… Read More »

Loggerythm – New Version – Update

By | May 31, 2006

If you downloaded the unlimited users analysis version please download again, there was a bug in it where it dies saying something like “unable to create png file”. I finally tracked this down to a problem with Delphi 7.1 update. I uninstalled Delphi and reinstalled, recompiled everything, and did not apply the 7.1 update and it now works… 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 »

Loggerythm – New Version

By | May 23, 2006

Well not quite, just a new exe with unlimited user rows is available 🙂 OK, try this, on the left hand menu click on Register, and register an account on this web site, you will receivel only updates of significance and nothing else by email from me, but I would like to know how many people are downloading… Read More »

Unlimted user analysis

By | May 22, 2006

I have already had a few requests for a version of this program that does not have the 5 user limit for user analysis, I am working on this now, I first have to find the right source code which I did last night, then reinstall Delphi 7 and all the add-ons that I use, then get familiar… Read More »