Recent Writing

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

All in all for the last 5 years I've worked exclusively from home, and prior to that it was on and off depending on circumstances, and so on. During this time I've often been asked the same sort of questions over and over again;

I think there's a joke in here about Pavlov's dog and web security experts, but I'm still working on it.

Mark Baggett over at PauldotCom put together an interesting article on running a command on every machine in your domain from the command line. I genuinely hadn't considered tying dsquery and wmi together in this way. The best thing is that with a little tweaking you can easily run the same command against a subset of…

Licensing is a pain in my arse. There are whole companies full of people who can tell you that you're doing it wrong. Personally I cannot stand licensing, and the only thing that I find more annoying (in this field) than the proliferation of Open Source and Free Software licenses (and figuring out what I'm allowed …

Whilst I totally support the goals of the FSF I'm not sure that I can totally endorse their militant wing; Defective By Design.