Monthly Archives: September 2009


Persistence is futile or Adventures with virtualising a RedHat server

QUITE Some time ago I began working on options for virtualising a physical Redhat server running on Dell hardware. Given my experience with various operating systems and migration to virtual machines – it wasn’t immediately obvious that this one would prove to be so stubborn. But it turned out to be an epic spanning almost […]


Whats in your Malware toolkit ?

With the rise in the pests that we call Malware what tools should you have available to you ? Initially I’d have to say that you want these tools available offline – able to go anywhere and help you – so you will want to devise a mechanism – perhaps a diary note to download […]


Crossing the bridge of SSids

For an upcoming project – I was looking at Draytek’s option for access points. Having used a range of Draytek kit for various clients – I was sure that this appliance would satisfy the requirement in this case. its a small unit with two antennae and is wall mountable. Further info The DrayTek Vigor AP-700 […]


Another Update for Itunes

Sometimes I think that Itunes gets more updates than other similar apps. Indeed every time I look around I’d swear an update pops up. So no surprise after Steve Jobs presentation yesterday announcing a slew of product updates we see a newly formed delivery in the shape of Itunes 9. From the Apple spiel about […]


Paperport 12 released

For thos of you who haven’t come across it – Paperport is a useful scanning and document management system from Nuance (Scansoft). Given away with a lot of scanners as a cut down version it really comes into its own when you use the professional version for scanning and organising pdfs. I have been using […]


Vsphere Center 4 upgrade

I recently upgraded my Vmware Vcenter (sic) 3 installation to the latest and greatest Version 4 which has been out for a while. I was pleasantly surprised by the ease of the inplace upgrade that is required before upgrading any ESX 3.5 hosts that the Vcenter comtrols. Once upgraded I did have some issues regarding […]