Windows, Management and Assorted Rantings

Windows, Management and Assorted Rantings http://blog.leafgrove.com/ Windows, Management and Assorted Rantings http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us Matthew1471's BlogX / BlogX.co.uk Content © James D. Stallard (all rights reserved) james@leafgrove.com james@leafgrove.com http://blog.leafgrove.com/RSS/Image.jpg Windows, Management and Assorted Rantings http://blog.leafgrove.com/ 100 100 Tue, 10 May 2009 01:25 GMT Olymic Shooting Idiocy Rant%20Mode%20ON! http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=117 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=117 The London Olympic organisers have decided (dumbly, let face it) to build and then demolish a shooting facility at Woolwich, instead of using the National Shooting Centre at Bisley. It's a dumb thing to do and without a shadow of doubt the decision was ... Mon, 2 May 2009 03:57 GMT Faking it for charity? Rant%20Mode%20ON! http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=116 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=116 The BBC recently did a follow up article on the slow recovery of the Mynamar people from a cyclone. The BBC repeatedly referring to the country as Burma, apparently ignoring the change of name in 1989. What concerns is the fact that they interviewed a doze... Sun, 8 Jan 2009 13:09 GMT Which! magazine changes hard drive overwrite recommendations Rant%20Mode%20OFF! http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=115 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=115 ...to recommending that we overwrite our hard drives with...a hammer. And yet they completely fail to note the therapeutic aspects of beating the crap out of an old hard disk with a lump hammer. I did 2 myself recently and I recommend it to everyone! Fri, 6 Jan 2009 09:17 GMT AVG Idiocy Security http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=114 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=114 Today I received an email from a buddy of mine, who unwisely uses the AVG (<a href="http://www.avg.com" target="_New">www.avg.com</a>) antivirus software. On the bottom of his email was attached this signature: Internal Virus Database is out of date. C... Thu, 5 Dec 2008 09:25 GMT Lost in Translation Rant%20Mode%20OFF! http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=113 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=113 Today, I received notification from a chap in China that the ebay fodder I ordered during a fit of online retail therapy is on its way: We are excited to inform you that our Ms. Pigeon has started off and covered 25% of its journey. As stated in the ... Sat, 28 Aug 2008 23:44 GMT Blog Upgrade and the perma-links are duff again Rant%20Mode%20ON! http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=111 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=111 Just upgraded this to the latest version of the excellent BlogX, and in doing so realised that there are precious few of us still hosting and running our own blogs. I still prefer to do it the old way, and while there is a case for outsourcing here, I just... Sun, 22 Aug 2008 17:54 GMT Gary Glitter is going to come back and haunt us Rant%20Mode%20ON! http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=110 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=110 It is often said that the people get the government they deserve. What is not often said is that the government takes it's revenge on the people in ever more Machiavellian ways. New Labour are particularly adept at this sort of thing, having created many t... Fri, 20 Aug 2008 21:32 GMT Unchecked Buffer in PowerCFG.CPL and PowerCFG.EXE on Windows XP SP3 Security http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=109 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=109 While investigating centralised automation of power management settings for Windows XP, I discovered that it is possible to use POWERCFG.EXE to create a new power management profile scheme with a name of greater than 32 characters. The resultant name canno... Mon, 30 Jul 2008 09:02 GMT 1,000,000 innocents off the DNA database Security http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=108 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=108 For the benefit of the record, I am very pro-police and very anti erosion of privacy. The clamour for removal of around 1,000,000 records from the UK national DNA database is a disaster for the police. There are so many records in the database, and t... Tue, 24 Jul 2008 23:16 GMT Centrally Controlled Power Management on Windows XP for under £10 per year AD%20and%20Enterprise%20Systems http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=107 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=107 With the rising cost of fuel impacting everyone's bottom lines and the increasingly good PR to be had, one of my clients asked me to come up with a centrally controlled power management solution for their Windows XP estate of around 3500 machines. Accor...