Recent Writing

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

Unfortunately this isn't one of those success stores. But then again if I wrote about those I'd be hitting a few thousand posts a year, and plus they're really boring to write about.

A little less than a month ago Patrick from Red-Track online marketing contacted me and wanted to know if I'd be interested in reviewing a TrainSignal training DVD, specifically one about Exchange 2010.

If you're using a combination of a scripting language, diskshadow and task scheduler to backup your Hyper-V machines take special care to make sure that task scheduler does not cut off the job whatsoever. Doing so can cause the host server to crash out, although it doesn't seem to be perfectly repeatable I've been able to …

One point twenty one jiggawatts! Yesterday (March 8, 2010) the OpenSSH project released version 5.4 and naturally will start hitting the various distributions and platforms soon, and again there are some great things to be interested in:

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…