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Making Virtual Machines Smaller

Posted by Mel on Thursday, 30 April 2009

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Diskpart

Posted by Mel on Friday, 3 April 2009

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Antivirus Exclusions on Servers

Posted by Mel on Thursday, 26 March 2009

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Computer Deployment with ImageX

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 25 March 2009

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Network Diagrams

Posted by Mel on Friday, 20 March 2009

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Virtualization, Virtualisation, Whatever!

Posted by Mel on Friday, 20 March 2009

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Sysprep, XP and Vista Rollout Links

Posted by Mel on Friday, 20 March 2009

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Security Sites

Posted by Mel on Friday, 20 March 2009

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Vista Network Issues

Posted by Mel on Friday, 20 March 2009

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XP SP3 Sysprep Changes

Posted by Mel on Friday, 20 March 2009

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Just Spent Half My Life As An Adult

Posted by Mel on Tuesday, 11 November 2008

So why don’t i feel more mature? ;)

Happy Birthday to me!

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Online free file storage sites to test for business use

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Box.net

IDrive

Mozy

Xdrive Just realised that this is part of AOL!

Information on other options options can be found at:

The Smorgasbord | Free Online Storage Review

28 Free File Storage Hosting Websites – Something you need to Bookmark!

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Public NTP Time Server

Posted by Mel on Thursday, 18 September 2008

0.ie.pool.ntp.org

See http://www.pool.ntp.org/

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Metallica Death Magnetic

Posted by Mel on Monday, 15 September 2008

GET IT NOW!

It’s been 20 years since Metallica last released an album this good, “…And Justice For All” for those of you who have to think back!  Things were never the same…until now!

“Metallica” (aka The Black Album) was good (not great) but feels like it was designed to bring about commercial success.  “Load” and “ReLoad” were OK with some good songs, some forgettable, and “St. Anger” was complete and utter shite!  There is only one song on that album that I would listen to again, “Sweet Amber”.  “St. Anger” might have served as a necessary group therapy/crisis meeting but should never have been released.  Ever!  Never ever!

Now that Bob (Pop Music) Rock has finally and thankfully been ditched, in favour of the producer they maybe should always have used, Rick Rubin, it’s back to what they do best.  Metallica finally sounds like Metallica again.

“Death Magnetic” is the spiritual successor to “…And Justice For All” and long may they continue if all future releases are as good as this.

I spent the whole day painting yesterday and had the album on repeat and there was not one song that I tired of listening to…all day long…not one!  Even the instrumental!  Yes the instrumentals are back too.  Like I said, they are back to doing what they do best!

GET IT NOW!

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Glad I’m not the only one who won’t touch Vista

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 25 June 2008

I’ve been using Vista Ultimate Edition on my work laptop for the past few months even though I disliked it even back then. The only reason it is still on the laptop is that I don’t have the time to wipe and reinstall the laptop with XP Pro.  Hopefully that day will come soon.

I really tried to get to like Vista.  I thought that if I became more familiar with it I might get a change of heart and grow to accept it.  I now know that will never happen.  In fact I’ve come to the completely hate Vista with a passion.  I can’t pick certain features that I individually hate about Vista, it’s the OS as a whole that I detest.  Windows ME 2?

According to a leaked internal memo, Intel are never going to use Vista.  See the article on the Inquirer here (Via).

Nice to know I’m in good company!

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Default Password List

Posted by Mel on Thursday, 20 March 2008

http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html (Via)

This list should come in handy at some point for anyone working in IT.  I’d be surprised if it didn’t.  It has already helped me out big time!

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Links for 2008-02-22

Posted by Mel on Friday, 22 February 2008

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Links for 2008-02-14

Posted by Mel on Thursday, 14 February 2008

Happy Valentines Day…and all the commercial crap that goes with it!  Romance my arse, it’s a rip-off!

Anyway, here’s a nice romantic letter to warm the cockles of Intels heart:

A Valentine’s Day Letter to AMD – ExtremeTech

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Use Gmail to filter spam from ISP email

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 16 January 2008

I was advised to do this in the past by Donncha but never got around to doing it. Must do it soon to see if I can make do without POPFile on my PC.

How to eliminate all spam mail for free | Life in Student Ministry (Via)

Here’s a pre-defined Google search to find more info on this.

Some other links which may be useful:

Gmail Help – Configuring other mail clients

How to Access Gmail with Mozilla Thunderbird – About Email

Update
Works a charm! I have Gmail getting my email from my ISP, Eircon (misspelling intentional!), filtering the spam, and then Thunderbird is collecting what is left after all the multitudes of spam has been removed. I am not sending my outgoing email through Gmail SMTP server though as the “From” field on emails sent through Gmail contains “????????@gmail.com on behalf of ????????@eircom.net”, so still sending outgoing email through the Smart Telecom SMTP server. Not one spam message has got through yet!

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Links for 02-Oct-2007

Posted by Mel on Tuesday, 2 October 2007

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Links for 01-Oct-2007

Posted by Mel on Monday, 1 October 2007

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Links for 27-Sep-2007

Posted by Mel on Thursday, 27 September 2007

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Links for 17-Sep-2007

Posted by Mel on Monday, 17 September 2007

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Links for 06-Sep-2007

Posted by Mel on Thursday, 6 September 2007

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Links for 04-Sep-2007

Posted by Mel on Tuesday, 4 September 2007

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Links for 31-Aug-2007

Posted by Mel on Friday, 31 August 2007

Windows Vista: 10 Things You Need to Know about Deploying Windows Vista — TechNet Magazine, November 2006
Much as I dislike Windows Vista I’m going to have to learn it sooner rather than later from a work perspective. Windows XP works, why can’t the same be said for Vista?

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Links for 08-Aug-2007

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 8 August 2007

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Links for 01-Aug-2007

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 1 August 2007

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Microsoft Office 2007 Viewers

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 1 August 2007

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Links for 27-Jul-2007

Posted by Mel on Friday, 27 July 2007

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