I’ve just been tweaking with SSH. One of the common things that I have to do is reconfigure my SSH tunnels while I’m working remotely to gain access to desktops and the like.
In this situation, the cumbersome but easiest way always seemed to be to disconnect and change the command line. However, having used Putty [...]

I had a shocking error of judgement this morning when I accidentally deleted some of my son’s photos from his toy digital camera. They were sitting on my desktop, and I was on a cleanup… These were a casualty of my cleanup-fest and obsession with the shift key.
Thinking on a Windows vein – I thought [...]

Vista’s UAC prevents standard users from installing printer drivers by default. This can cause a problem, especially if you use a logon script or group policy preferences to add shared printers to the user profile.

Luckily there’s a quick group policy fix that will allow users to add printers without any prompt. Once configured, you should be able to log on with a user account that automatically adds the printer without a hitch.

Once you have your domain and group policies set up, it can become frustrating to constantly have to remember to move a new computer into the correct OU.
Luckily in Windows 2003 and above, you can set a default OU:
redircmp ou=ComputersOU,dc=mydomain,dc=com
Remember to replace the path with your own domain’s OU path. Also, your domain has to [...]

Today, I was looking at my printer queue and realised that Claire had tried to print something from the internet to my work printer. This meant that unless I went to the office – it would not print. A problem.
Because Claire had decided to use my laptop rather than one of the desktops, I was [...]

I’ve set up a Wordpress site for a client and have had no end of troubles trying to get the site to behave – however there seems to be a constant problem of Wordpress hanging.
Looking further into it – I discovered that the feeds in the Dashboard were making the browser and site hang. There [...]