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June 2005 - Posts
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Windows 2000 mainstream support is due to end today and a couple of days back, as expected, Microsoft released update rollup 1 for Windows 2000 service pack 4 . Full details of this update (including why it is not called Windows 2000 service pack 5) are Read More...
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I spent some time yesterday chaining two ISA Server 2000 proxy arrays. As there doesn't seem to be a lot of information about on the subject, I thought I'd provide some here (most of what can be found easily is about using proxy chaining for anonymity Read More...
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Last year I blogged about Microsoft's acquisition of Giant Software and I've been using their AntiSpyware Beta since it was made available in January ; but last week I was looking at the inordinate amount of spam my Dad receives and that got me thinking Read More...
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I just read that Jack St.Clair Kilby died last week. The sad thing is that I'd never heard of Jack until I read his obituary even though his invention - the integrated circuit (IC) - undoubtedly paved the way for the computerised world in which we live Read More...
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Last week, I was fortunate enough to be quoted on the front page of IT Week by Martin Veitch, in his article " Decision Time for Win2000 Users ". Of course, as my wife is a Public Relations Consultant , I understand (and even expect) only a partial quote Read More...
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Alex e-mailed me earlier and told me that the RSS feed on my family blog was broken. Actually, I'd password protected the site, and forgotten to update the details in Feedburner (which translates Blogger's Atom output to RSS for me). I couldn't find any Read More...
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A couple of weeks back, I was testing a DHCP configuration scenario using a number of virtual machines and needed them to obtain their IP addresses from a Windows 2000 DHCP server within my virtual network. That should work, but for some reason, my virtual Read More...
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Last year, I blogged about building a Windows cluster using VMware . Since then, new versions of VMware have made this more difficult/expensive (as it no longer works with VMware Workstation) and Rob Bastiaansen has removed the virtual SCSI disks from Read More...
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My Windows-based PC just crashed (hardly surprising given all the rubbish I have installed on it recently - despite all of the bad press that Windows attracts, I maintain that a well-patched and well-managed Windows NT, 2000, XP or Server 2003 system Read More...
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Keni Barwick commented recently that he was worried about MSN Messenger having gone AWOL from Windows Mobile 5.0 . The answer it seems is Pocket MSN . Microsoft wants to charge a one-off fee of £10.99 to use MSN Messenger on a mobile device. As I Read More...
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Last month I blogged about some useful operational advice on the Microsoft website and I've just found a load more in the MSDN library . Specifically, I was looking at the advice for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 operations but there is a whole load of Read More...
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Keni Barwick has been blogging lots about Windows Mobile 5.0 (formerly codenamed Magneto) so now it's my turn to chip in with my own view of why this update to the Windows mobile platform should not be ignored. According to Microsoft (citing a December Read More...
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Authentication and authorisation are often thought of as a single process but the two are actually distinct operations that may even use separate storage locations for the authentication and authorisation data. Authentication is about verifying identity, Read More...
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I've been reading on the web about quite a number of people who are having problems getting their iTrip FM transmitters for the iPod to work. In the UK, the use of such a product is illegal and, according to the Telegraph : "While it only operates in Read More...
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Readers of my private blog may recall that, last year, my open FTP server was hacked . That experience taught me a valuable lesson and earlier today, I needed to establish a secure FTP server installation using Microsoft Internet Information Services Read More...
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Last week I blogged about my neighbour's problems setting up his iMac G5 to use AOL broadband . Since replacing the ADSL modem with a router he is back online, but last night we spent some time sorting out a few remaining items: transferring data; installing Read More...
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Mansoor Majeed gave a presentation last week about multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) to Conchango 's Infrastructure Architecture community of practice. Mansoor doesn't have a blog of his own, so I'm taking this opportunity to write a little bit about Read More...
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