What goes around comes around.

Adding external email addresses to a distribution list

2012-09-28T12:08:00.002+12:00

You need to create the external email addresses as Contacts in Active Directory. To do this, you'll need to leave the SBS wizards and use Active Directory Users and Computers.1.) Open ADUC from Administrative Tools2.) Navigate to MyBusiness, right click and choose New -> Organizational Unit to create a new OU, and call it Contacts3.) Right Click on the new OU and select New ->

Gigabyte GPT Issue

2011-02-18T17:35:00.000+13:00

I've been talking with Gigabyte and they've made a custom BIOS update to fix the GPT freezing :) It will possibly come out as an official update at some point but I will consider mirroring it if they don't.

ATi DXVA

2010-10-07T08:25:00.002+13:00

I figured it was time to post about ATi's now long running DXVA bug, ever since Catalyst driver version 10.2 (means last working version was in January) ATi cards have been unable to render low resultion video without artifacting.I have contacted ATi support (who said they would pass it on to the driver team) and posted it on their feedback form along with a thread on their forums (peer to peer

Gigabyte + USB + GPT = ?

2010-10-04T13:26:00.003+13:00

Figured out why my external drives were causing the computer to freeze during boot, it seems the Gigabyte motherboard (latest BIOS still affected) doesn't like having GPT. If you want the drive to be plugged in during boot you will need to have it formatted with a MBR.

New Computer!

2010-02-06T20:22:00.003+13:00

Finally got around to buying/building a new desktop today, it feels good being able to run games at max settings, still waiting on the DVD drive and wireless network card which wont arrive till monday.Intel i5 - 750Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD44GB SuperTalent Performance Series DDR3-1600HIS ATI HD5750 IceQ+Lian-Li Dragonlord PC-K62BCorsair HX650I've only come across one problem so far where the Gigabyte

uTorrent?

2009-03-19T10:58:00.006+13:00

I recently installed Windows over Ubuntu, Vista to be specific and after finally getting it fully setup I dissapointingly got a BSOD, at first I thought my hardware was failing so I did a memory check and scandisk and for good measure installed a antivirus. This didn't stop the blue screens however, but I realised that every time I started my laptop I was starting uTorrent. So it turns out that

Ubuntu Compiz

2009-02-16T21:48:00.002+13:00

Are you suffering from video and misc applications flickering? Apparently Compiz interferes with applications drawing to the screen. To work around you need to change your video render to X. To fix you need to disable Compiz.Thanks Ubuntu community.

Pidgin has useless plugins

2009-02-16T21:46:00.002+13:00

dcop: not found shown in terminal while pidgin locks up? Kill your audio player process. If it still occurs open audio player, open pidgin and disable musictracker.Thanks musictracker.

Moi Server

2008-11-07T03:35:00.004+13:00

If I happen to have it updated -url removed- will point to my server. Also I'm going to attempt to mirror/continue this blog onto a Wordpress install at -url removed-

Fun with reCAPTCHA

2008-07-06T14:57:00.002+12:00

This may seem kinda sad but if they use this without checking they deserve it!The concept of reCAPTCHA is a noble one: it utilises a CAPTCHA system of word verification to not only verify a human is there but to also help digitise text.Now the fun part is to screw with that. After playing around with the form a few times it becomes mostly apparent which word is generated and which comes from a

Charlie the Unicorn 2

2008-06-14T01:20:00.006+12:00

Charlie the Unicorn 2 script:Blue: Glub Glub Glub Glub Glub GlubPink: Glub GlubBlue: Look over there it’s a coral reefCharlie: Oh look it’s you guys, and you’re floating.Blue: Charlie, we’re scuba diving CharliePink: We’re exploring the depths of the ocean blue.Blue: Oh no, here comes a school of poisonous foogu fish.Pink: Nooooo FooguCharlie: Ah you gotta watch out for those, now go away I’m

Uhh. Ok?

2008-01-12T12:58:00.000+13:00

NoScript wishes to inform everyone that: V. Isuckpenis "Gentler Yet Stronger"=/

Linux Fails Again

2007-11-18T16:46:00.000+13:00

Ubuntu CDs arrived the other day, spent some time looking stuff up on how to get the modem working while using the live CD; went to install it before I tried out any of the stuff I found and discovered that it the Ubuntu installer didn't detect any HDD's and thus wouldn't let me install.All I can say is that Linux has had it's 6th or so try and still hasn't been able to be usable as an OS.

Vista Ahoy

2007-11-13T20:56:00.000+13:00

I downloaded a copy of Vista Ultimate a while ago (let’s just say torrented) and recently installed it. I didn't really know what to expect from it, I’ve used it before for short periods of time and was annoyed with how things are rearranged from XP. I was a bit wary after hearing all the things people say about it online and I have a friend with a Sempron and although I can't say for sure

Sneaky Sneaky

2007-10-23T04:08:00.000+13:00

After foolishly playing around with trojans/exploits and the like I decided to check the worthiness of Process Explorer. One thing that stood out as not being normal was PSIService which I promptly disabled, deleted the service and removed all offending PSI*.dll files.After removing this ProtexisLicensing crap from my install I found that two programs that I have installed failed to open due to

The Return of the Laptop

2007-06-08T19:05:00.000+12:00

My laptop arrived back recently, after 9 weeks of being "repaired".Some points i'm dissapointed with in particular:It took 9 weeks to get back to me, the hell?The lid of the laptop is scratched pretty badly, thankfully the screen is alright.There was a bit of oil on some of the keys.I found a worm, a few Trojans and downloaders.The Trojans are somewhat worrying, although since I connected it to

Good Free Apps

2007-05-31T16:56:00.000+12:00

I thought i'd make a list of the legitimately free apps I use for basic computing tasks.Avast!SpyBot S&DFree Download Manager7-ZipOO.orgComodo

Acer Support Sucks

2007-05-18T22:02:00.001+12:00

Agh, Acer support is terrible! This is the fifth or sixth week after I have sent away my laptop for repair (of what I think is a issue with their software).Start, Week 1: Sent away LaptopEnd, Week 1: Rang Acer, they claim they JUST recieved the Laptop. Fair enough.End, Week 2: They were still "repairing" the Laptop.End, Week 3: The Laptop had reportedly finished being repaired and was being sent

Netbeans

2007-04-25T13:15:00.000+12:00

All is working, it seems a nice IDE even though I fail to understand how to make a GUI and none of the Java tutorials are very good.All the Java tutorials either go into the very basics of what a variable is or they go into a whole load of theory and not very much actual programming.Safe to say that Sun Microsystems site sucks in every possible way.I wouldn't recommend NetBeans to others either,

Smilies

2007-04-25T13:11:00.000+12:00

=) =/ =\ =| =( =D =P =x =o =O -_- ^_^ o_o x_x ^-^ >_> XD :) :( :/ :S :x :[ :\ :< :> D: :D :'(

NetBeans/JDK Update

2007-04-13T16:24:00.000+12:00

Well, it appears I actually downloaded the JDK this time but it turns out that NetBeans 5.5 wont look for JDK 7 and that I need to have JDK 5 or 6 installed.Needless to say this is starting to frustrate me, especially since NetBeans lacks an option to manually search for a JDK.Now on to downloading JDK 6 I suppose. If this doesn't work i'm going to give up on Java for at least this year.

JDK Update

2007-04-11T11:19:00.000+12:00

Great, so I FINALLY finish a 30MB download of what I thought was the JDK7 download.Ho, Ho, Ho, I was foolish to believe that a download on the JDK7 DOWNLOAD PAGE, would actually *gasp* be the JDK!Turns out I downloaded a JRE that requires the JRE to run. Funny, isn't it; you might think that for a second Sun would try to attain some aspect of ease of use.This is starting to turn out to be more

Privoxy

2007-04-11T10:30:00.000+12:00

Privoxy is an awesome application/proxy once one learns to configure it.The first time I used it was part of the Vidalia/Tor/Privoxy bundle where I thought it's only purpose was to be used as part of the Tor implementation, but after reading about it on Wikipedia a few years later I decided to give it another go.I once again decided to go with the Vidalia bundle just for the sake of being able to

Would you like a cup of Java with your NetBeans?

2007-04-10T17:45:00.001+12:00

The Netbeans 5.5 CD I ordered a few weeks ago has now arrived.Shame it doesn't include the JDK alone with it; All the differing versions of Java are somewhat confusing.Should I download JDK6 which seems to be the stable version with development having ceased.JDK7 which appears to be the new version.Or OpenJDK which doesn't seem to actually be a JDK but rather just javac and the Java Virtual

Bye Bye Laptop

2007-04-05T16:41:00.000+12:00

After not only crashing, but now returning a BSOD on every boot I decided I had enough.I rang Acer support and am now getting the laptop sent away due to possible heat damage.Therefore I am now using my desktop for everything until the Laptop returns. :(It's weird how everything looks so different without wide-screen and all the other differences my laptop makes.I also forgot how slow and crapped