Today we had an odd message in System Center 2012 – Configuration Manager. Software updates synchronization for the Software Update Point role failed
We had an interesting issue with Adobe Reader, Internet Explorer 10 and Windows 7 64bit today – when opening a PDF from an untrusted website on the Internet, IE would display a grey/black ‘broken page’ icon in the top right with an ‘infobar’ message at the bottom: The webpage wants to run ‘AcroPDF.dll’. If you
I recently took on a new client who was having problems with a server on their site. They have a 1gbps dedicated connection to the Internet that was being saturated by an incoming DDoS attack. Opening Resource Monitor on their gateway yielded some interesting results – there were thousands of DNS queries being performed per
“Bloody hell”. I actually said that out loud whilst testing the new version of Opera’s browser ‘Opera Next’ (http://www.opera.com/developer/next) I would post a video of it installing, but it would only be about three seconds long!
Those of you who know me will know that I’m a massive fan of Approaching Nirvana. First heard them on a soundtrack for a YouTube video. Anyway – check out their new album on bandcamp here: http://music.approachingnirvana.com/album/group-12
So today I just happened to notice that one of our DCs at work didn’t have the latest version of a GPO. I was creating a new policy using Group Policy Preferences (amazing bit of kit btw – have a look at Alan Burchill’s how to get rid of your logon scripts video here: http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2012/09/teched-2012-video-how-to-get-rid-of-your-logon-scripts-the-easy-and-free-way/),
Windows 8 has a fantastic lock screen that displays the time and a picture of your choosing. That is until 60 seconds are up, and Microsoft decided that this would be a great time to turn the screen off, especially when there’s already a setting that does something similar in power options.
BT recently announced its plans to get rid of bandwidth caps and traffic management on all but their entry-level broadband packages.1 We ask the questions: ‘What is Bandwidth?’; ‘What is Traffic Management?’ and ‘What does it mean for me?’.
Welcome to a new series called ‘The Internet Explained’ – a series of articles about topics that have either been in the news, or people have asked us about. This week – Java vs JavaScript.
One of our backup technicians escalated an issue to me today after they noticed it in the Data Protection Manager console recently. Nothing out of the ordinary I thought – Replica is inconsistent. Usually happens when the server is switched off incorrectly or crashes.