While Group Policy software distribution is a quick and easy way to get software around a network, it isn’t without its problems. One such problem is when a computer is attached to a new domain. If your software distribution is the same, Windows will still reinstall the MSI packages. The simplest way is to join [...]

I’ve just completed the first DNS and DHCP server that I’ve built for a while. This was using Ubuntu Linux 8.04. The nice thing about the process this time around as opposed to when I set one up a couple of years ago is that I was a little more au fait with the process. [...]

I’m quite a fan of the Sexy Bookmarks WordPress plugin. There’s clearly an element of grace in the design and the developers make no bones about how it should be perceived. Being ‘sexy’ has an inexpressible appeal for anything but it can cause headaches simply because of the connotations that are also brought up with [...]

For shutting down multiple computers on a network: for /L %C in (1,1,30) do shutdown -f -s -t 0 -m \\ict-%C This shuts down all Windows computers named ict-X where X is a number from 1 to 30.

Well it finally happened. It was hinted at long ago when the Beeb first made the iPlayer available for the Wii via its internet browser, but now it seems that there will be a dedicated channel on the Wii. I’m glad that it finally came along. After the recent Internet Channel update, the iPlayer hasn’t [...]

I had a little trouble with an HP Printer driver that was causing the Vista PCs to hang at logon. Without going into the specifics of the problem (which comes down to poor HP drivers), I needed a way to ensure that the driver wouldn’t be active the next time that a user logged onto [...]