Andrew Taylor

My day job currently includes the design, build and deployment of Active Directory services. As a user of VMWare ESX, most of our AD infrastructure is built as Virtual Machines. However, over the last week I’ve come across problems with this environment, or more specifically, VMWare Tools. Rather than repeat what’s already been posted – [...]

Just a quick post for anyone wanting to block SMS messages being sent to your BT landline – just call 0800 587 5252. You can either allow messages at any time, between 9am-9pm, 8am-11pm, 12am-6am or block altogether. The number to listen to and delete SMS messages is 0845 602 1111

A worrying statistic. More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or viruses, report mail monitoring firms. Analysis of the contents of millions of e-mails has revealed that less than 4% is legitimate traffic. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5219554.stm

I came across something called YouOS on Digg today. YouOS is a web operating system that lets you run diverse applications within a web browser. Small applications like sticky notes or clocks. Large applications like word processing, mp3 players, and instant messaging. Even better, it’s very easy to tweak an existing application or write your [...]

Clive at osde.info alerted me to rPath and rBuilder today. rPath provides rBuilder and rPath Linux, the first platform for creating and maintaining software appliances.

Over the last few weeks I’ve come across some really useful resources for web development. I’ve added these to my del.icio.us feed, however I thought it was worth adding here too for those that read my blog: Pretty Printer – http://www.prettyprinter.de/ - a source code “beautifier” dp.SyntaxHighlighter - http://www.dreamprojections.com/syntaxhighlighter/ - a source code highlighter for web online snippets RegExLib [...]

After much hassle, I’ve finally got my hands on my latest toy – a Humax Freeview Personal Video Recorder. It’s a Twin Tuner Freeview box with a 160Gb hard drive for recording TV to MPEG and allowing you to watch it later (just like a video recorder but it’s all recorded to the internal hard [...]