Today, I manually ran a software authentication on each of forty machines. No, I don’t know why it had to be manually (well, because doing it automatically didn’t work, apparently), but better to get it done now than field complaints come September and classes start again. I started, logged-on, ran a batch file, ran the […]

I was at an interesting IT Pro/Developer talk tonight on Microsoft’s approach to virtualisation. Basically, they’re trying to take control of the whole virtualisation stack, so that they can provide technical support at all levels. Of course it doesn’t hurt that they’re going to take a significant part of the market share, particularly from SMEs […]

No sooner had I posted the previous entry than I began having second thoughts about my choice of blogging software. I have a weak spot for bBlog, and it has some very unique features, but writing the post made me re-consider it’s limitations. No active development, and it’s successor seems at a very early stage, […]

I’ve finally got this site looking and acting the way I want it to; after several weeks battling a homepage, I decided to base the site on blogging software, having realised that maintenance was going to be an enormous pain if I wanted to keep various site elements visually in sync. The software I’m using […]