One of the thing that differs VirtualBox from Microsoft’s Virtual PC is that VB puts guest on a subnet of the computer that you are working on. This means that it cannot be directly accessed from other computers on your network.
To enable access, you need to configure your computer to allow ports to be forwarded [...]

One of the cool things I’ve been doing lately is using secure shell to mount remote file systems. The great thing about this method is that you’re not dependant of explicitly creating shares as you are in Samba, and you don’t have to rely on repeated scp commands.
As long as you have the sshfs package [...]

I’ve had a problem lately whereby various roaming profiles have the Computer window appear when users log into Windows Vista.
I messed around with a load of settings to try and work out what it was – I thought that as the problem only manifests itself in Vista with the new profiles, maybe it’s mis-interpreting a [...]

Now that MS Office 2007 is doing the rounds, I suppose it’s time to lookat some of its shortcomings.
It has a few when it comes to deployment. The biggest nuisance being deployment.
You have four options:

Install it on a PC manually (not great)
Deploy through group policy with no customisations
Use a deployment system such as SMS
Use a [...]

Some grief today as I found that Vista wasn’t behaving with user profiles. Whenever a user attempted to logon, he or she would be greeted with the following popup:
Your user profile was not loaded correctly!
You have been logged on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log [...]

If you happen to have an Intel PRO1000 network card, you may come across the following error when you open up control panel in Windows:
Intel PROset
resources are not available
The problem for me stemmed from repairing an installation of Windows.
With the Intel Pro-network cards, the software that comes bundled with them includes advanced network components that [...]