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12 January 2010 0 Comments

New Year, New Site, New Stuff!

Oh hi! Welcome to my all new site, with extra shiny bits  I’m really pleased with the new layout, I hope you like it too. So over the next few days I’ll get the remaining pieces of the Software Compliance Tool together and post it here. You might notice I’ve already made a start on [...]

2 January 2009 1 Comment

MobileMeh!: Perspective (rant) from a Mac / Win customer

So when MobileMe was launched, I immediately signed up for an email address on the 3 month trial. The idea of push email and calendar / contact syncing to my iPhone, over the cloud, was VERY appealing, In fact, it was basically the only reason I switched. I rarely bother plugging in my iPhone to [...]

26 March 2008 0 Comments

Scripting the creation of a Lotus Notes DB replica

In my company, we have a lot of laptops as our staff mostly work out of the office. They constantly VPN in to get their mail, and our recommended best practice is to replicate their Lotus Notes mail rather than working online. However, when setting up a laptop for a new staff member, that meant [...]

25 March 2008 39 Comments

Disabling Apple Software Update items

So there’s been a lot of talk over the past few days about Apple’s mechanism for deploying the Safari browser on Windows – basically the same tool that’s used to keep iTunes and Quicktime up to date. The problem is, even if you don’t have Safari installed, you’re prompted to “update” (i.e. install) it. In [...]

14 December 2006 2 Comments

Bitlocker woes…

So I’ve finally gotten some time to muck around with Bitlocker in Vista Enterprise / Business. I didn’t have high expectations, as my company already uses a full disk encryption tool which we’re quite pleased with, but there’s no version available yet for Vista and I wanted to make sure I had implemented some sort [...]

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