Dell Latitude D630 vs XP!

The next issue I have encountered is Windows XP’s requirement for an IDE floppy disk drive during the text mode install stage.  As the laptop has a SATA controller Windows XP does not have the driver support built in, normally you would just download the drivers and during the text mode install press F6 to add [...]

Dell Latitude D630

Well my new work laptop has arrived but being able to use it with our standard corporate build does not appear so straightforward.  Firstly the workstation management software we use, Novell Zenworks, does not support the hardware ‘out-of-the-box’ so after a short while I found the following solution:

Download the latest Zenworks for Desktops 7.1 Hot Patch [...]

More Forza

Quick update, damn this game is good.  In the whole the online community is fantastic with only a very small number of what you would call bad sports, regardless of the stuff kicking around about ‘Brits Vs Americans’.  Got round to completing all of the Arcade achievements today, only need to complete Nürburgring [...]

Microsoft ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 3

In May Microsoft released Service Pack 3 for Microsoft ISA Server 2004, when I attempted to install this update it would bring the firewall down and the service could not be restated.  It would result in leaving mixed components on the ISA Server, causing the service startup to fail.  I have now managed to apply this [...]

Forza – 2 days in

This is just superb, amazing gameplay.  been progressing through the career mode and now can’t stop challenging others on Xbox Live.  Even found my [...]

Forza Motorsport 2

Well just gone out and bought Forza Motorsport 2 on the Xbox 360.  That is the weekend [...]

Using a JPG with an Active Directory roaming profile

There is a known issue that if you use a non-BMP wallpaper, for example a .jpg (jpeg), in a roaming profile using Microsoft Windows, it will not roam with the user.  To resolve this I created a script that when used as a logoff script, it will enable the wallpaper to roam.

MoveJPGWallpaper.vbs

Further to this I would highly [...]