Mar 03 2006
In a previous post I mentioned that I setup WPA2 wireless security on my Linksys WRT54G wireless router. I didn’t mention though that you need Windows XP SP2 and an update from the Microsoft Support site to get it working from the client-side.
The update and related article can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893357
Feb 15 2006
News just in… Measure Map has been purchased by Google for an (as yet) unknown price. This will be a nice addtion to the Google Analytics software that Google also purchased recently. Measure Map, however, is more focused on bloggers – providing the essential stats that bloggers are after.
The interesting thing about this purchase, is that the Measure Map software is not even in beta testing yet, and there is still no wide-spread public test available. Not sure if this is a first, but it’s definitely worth a congratulation to Jeffrey Veen who now joins Google on the Google Measure Map team.
Jan 31 2006
Ars Technica have just released their latest system guide for January 2006. I’ve been waiting for this one to come out as I’m currently looking at building up a new 64-bit system, and their advice is always invaluable!
Jan 31 2006
Google have just released an update to their Google Toolbar bringing the version number up to version 4 (Beta). Unfortunately this is only available for Internet Explorer at the moment, which is a shame. However, I’ve just installed and tested it and it definitely gets two thumbs up for me!
The coolest feature is that you can add custom bustons to the toolbar – all you need to do is browse to web site that has a search function, then right click in the search field and choose “Generate custom search.” A dialog box appears so you can change the label and description for the button, but you just need to click on the Add button and you’re done. I used the Answers.com website for my test and it worked perfectly.
This is definitely worth checking out for those unfortunate times when you need to use Internet Explorer.
Jan 31 2006
Someone has managed to get Windows XP dual booting on one of the new Intel Macs. The article below describes how to do it on a MacBook, but this is really only for the geeks out there as there’s a lot of tricky work involved.
Jan 12 2006
Hot off the press… Thunderbird 1.5 has just been released by Mozilla. I’ve been using the betas and release candidates and am very impressed with the new features. Best feature for me is the inline spell checking, but there are a whole heap of other improvements too. Read more here: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
Jan 12 2006
I’ve just published my first article to my new ActiveDir site on BlogTown NZ which is a “how to” article: “Remotely reboot a server into DSRM”
Hope you like it – feel free to comment on the article.
Dec 02 2005
I attended an AD disaster recovery course recently and created my notes in a Writely document. Here they are below, feel free to comment on this article if you have any questions.
Oct 21 2005
VMWare have released a free tool called the VMware Player. You can use it to run virtual machines that have been created with VMware Workstation (or GSX/ESX). You can’t create VM’s but it’s definitely useful if you’ve only got a few full VMware licenses available. I haven’t tested it yet – it won’t install on a machine with full VMware already installed – but it looks good. It can also run Microsoft VirtualPC images as well as Symantec LiveState Recovery(?) images.
Link here: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/