Richard Fleming

A few months ago I created this simple single line Conky script that gives you a brief overview of your system info.

We recently started upgrading existing Windows 7 machines to Windows 10, and in doing so noticed that the Backup Exec 2010 remote agent (RAWS) still functioned. That piqued my curiosity because anyone who has ever tried to install it on an existing Windows 10 machine sees this fine error…

Since upgrading my workplace to Windows 7 my department got a lot of complaints from users that they no longer knew when their passwords would expire. As you’re probably aware, the little balloon box in Windows 7 isn’t all that noticeable compared to the dialogue box Windows XP threw requiring you to actually acknowledge the notice.

I’ve been performing maintenance on my WSUS server the last couple of days. In particular, I’ve been trying to re-install a particular update that had previously been approved, then denied. This resulted in several hosts failing to properly re-install this update automatically forcing the need to manually re-install it; to 76 hosts. Nope!

I’ve been looking for ways to upgrade Windows 7 Professional to Enterprise here at work so that BitLocker (and other features) would become available. I was lead to believe that the only way to accomplish this was to format the drive and install Windows 7 Enterprise from scratch, so I set about looking for hacks.

Since I got my Google Nexus in March, I found myself wanting to play with Android. All you hear these days is the benefits of creating apps for either the iPhone or for Android and I thought to myself that I would like to try.

Lately, I’ve been introspective on which technologies I’ve wanted to learn. One area I wanted to make an improvement upon this year was a better understanding of JavaScript and the frameworks that exist for it out there, so I decided I’d look at jQuery.

… I used to have a blog. It was more of a place to rant, but a blog none-the-less.

It started off as a way for me to learn PHP and web development in general. Wordpress was at version 1.2, and rolling my own web log seemed like a great way to really get my feet wet in learning PHP.