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How to setup Logitech Harmony One remote with xTreamer Ultra + Win 7 + XBMC

nick — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:37:07 +0000

I recently got hold of a Logitech Harmony One remote, and promptly set about setting it up for use with my Xtreamer Ultra and XBMC. There’s an excellent guide on the XBMC forums here about how to set up the Harmony One remote with XBMC, fortunately everything in that guide applies to the Xtreamer Ultra. [...]

Giving write permissions through Remote Registry

nick — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:50:49 +0000

So, today I had to give a user permission to access the Remote Registry on Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. You could be forgiven for thinking this would be a relatively trivial task. Some quick googling revealed that before a user can even read anything, they must have permissions on the following key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurePipeServers\winreg Granting [...]

How-to Disable and Re-enable AD Replication on Windows Server 2008

nick — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:29:27 +0000

At work today I had to disable replication to one of our 3 DCs. Unfortunately the internet wasn’t very forthcoming with such information, so after much scrabbling around and some google-fu I arrived at the following. To disable replication you can run: repadmin /options <your_dc> +DISABLE_INBOUD_REPL repadmin /options <your_dc> +DISABLE_OUTBOUND_REPL And to re-enable [...]

Setup OSQA on CentOS 5.5

nick — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:37:31 +0000

This guide continues on from my previous guide on installing CentOS 5.5 on Hyper-V. Despite being based on CentOS, it should work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and principles will apply to many other Linux distributions as well. Most of this is taken from the official OSQA documentation and modified slightly to fix a few [...]

How-to install CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a Hyper-V VM

nick — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:21:13 +0000

This guide will take you through the process of creating a Linux virtual machine on a Hyper-V host. It is assumed that you have Hyper-V setup already, and you know how to create VMs. This guide will use a CentOS 5.5 netinstall, however the principle is the same for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, and [...]

Look what I found…

nick — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:00:43 +0000

I’ve been doing a bit of tidying up and all that, and remembered I made this timelapse video of a Sunset over York Racecourse. Just thought I’d share it again =)

Joining Windows 7 to a Samba Domain

nick — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:08:53 +0000

This is a problem I ran into at YSTV recently. We run a Samba 3 domain and have recently upgraded our Edit PCs to use Windows 7. Unfortunately Windows 7 out of the box will not join a Samba domain, saying that the “Domain does not exist or could not be contacted” after asking you [...]

From Hate to Love in a little over a year…

nick — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:38:41 +0000

It has been an interesting year, and those of you who know me should certainly agree. This last year has been my Industrial placement year as part of my Degree – All fun and games you might think. Mostly, you’d be right – aside from the daily struggle of commuting to Leeds every day. It’s [...]

Access is Denied Exception when writing to Spreadsheet from ASP.Net

nick — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:48:52 +0000

I recently got the following error message whilst trying to write to an excel file using the openXML library in ASP.Net and C#: System.ApplicationException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageFile.nGetRootDir(IsolatedStorageScope scope) at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageFile.InitGlobalsNonRoamingUser(IsolatedStorageScope scope) at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageFile.GetRootDir(IsolatedStorageScope scope) at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageFile.GetGlobalFileIOPerm(IsolatedStorageScope scope) at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageFile.Init(IsolatedStorageScope scope) at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageFile.GetStore(IsolatedStorageScope scope, Type domainEvidenceType, Type assemblyEvidenceType) at [...]

Spamtastic!

nick — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:33:50 +0000

This weekend saw a sudden surge of spam comments coming my way. Strangely though, the comments seem legit. No links to various websites, not random text – nothing. Just a few sentances that are so generic they seem relevant. I let the first couple through – It wasn’t until I noticed i had comments from [...]