Recent Writing

Love poorly written, pointless, uninteresting wittering? This is the stuff for you.

Given it's all over the forums and it's now the end of day after the release of the episode: "LUGRadio will be finishing after LUGRadio Live UK 2008" (so that's basically 2 remaining episodes, including LRL)!

Unless you've been living in a hole for the past few days, or you're seriously anti-Windows or simply not into your virtualisation at all, you're probably aware that Hyper-V, the replacement for Virtual Server 2005, has gone "gold" (RTM).

We had a good one at work the other day. One of our customer's terminal servers, from their load balanced cluster, had run out of diskspace on C:\, due to a rogue update of some bespoke software and a lack of quotas. This is something which was missed from the config, but we or the customer …

The "SBS Diva" very recently posted about unfettered access to port 3389. Incase you need the blanks filled in this would be the default Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port, which is used to manage any relatively recent Windows box, 99% of the time.

This evening I had the fun of finally getting around to repairing a number of bash scripts which I use to automate a number of tasks on my personal servers. One of these parses a RSS feed and then downloads content, much like bashpodder, although unfortunately the data isn't encapsulated as nicely as you would expect …