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 http://blog.leafgrove.com/ 100 100 Sat, 28 Aug 2008 23:44 GMT 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 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 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 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.<br><br>The clamour for removal of around 1,000,000 records from the UK national DNA database is a disaster for the police.<br><br>There are so many records in the database, and t... Tue, 24 Jul 2008 23:16 GMT 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.<br><br>Accor... Wed, 18 Jul 2008 09:07 GMT Security http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=106 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=106 Is it me or is there a deafening silence, where there should have been celebration?<br><br>The long-time bug in DNS that allowed cache-poisoning and effectively allowed an attacker to hi-jack a legit website for their own needs has existed since the start of D... Wed, 11 Jul 2008 10:47 GMT Rant%20Mode%20OFF! http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=105 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=105 While driving home the other day, I saw in the distance, running towards me a naked girl. As I drove closer, the girl continued to be naked and what's more she was being ignored by everyone passing her. As I passed her, I realised that she was fully clothe... Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:10 GMT Rant%20Mode%20ON! http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=104 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=104 The Government is missing out on hiring the skills of some of the top people in the industry, and as a result is being forced to pay up to 5x over the odds for sub-par skills recruited through the mess of inter-related Office of Government Commerce (OGC)/C... Mon, 9 May 2008 23:03 GMT Security http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=103 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=103 I have written previously on how to quickly create a free, secure and fast VPN solution on Windows Server 2003. Having just migrated my own VPN to Windows Server 2008, I thought I should do a new article for the more recent operating system. This version o... Wed, 4 May 2008 13:22 GMT Security http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=102 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=102 Having migrated this blog to Windows Server 2008 I was checking the logs and noticed that the mail.asp pages was being abused to try and send me spam email. <br><br>This has been going on for a while, but my mailserver knows the difference between legit commen...