Andrew Taylor

It seems overnight I’ve changed my career and I’m now an electrical contractor with my own van!

I needed to log all requests to our Bind DNS servers so that we could find out which servers and computers were still using them for DNS resolution before we decomissioned them. This named.conf config entry proved most useful. I’ve posted it here so that everytime I need to do this, I don’t start from scratch [...]

I’ve been a bit quiet on here lately, so sorry about that (had anyone actually noticed?!) The last few weeks have seen Rentokil move into their new offices and I’ve been heavily involved in the process of moving people, their PCs and their data from the Garland Road and Felcourt sites to City Place. All [...]

So, just 19 days to go before the (planned) move date to the new offices at City Place. I personally feel that it’s unlikely we’ll move on the 10th April as planned, the timescales are all just a bit to tight for comfort at the moment, but I may be proved wrong. Currently, we’re building [...]

Or more precisely, a Google Mini. In essence, it’s the Google search engine and web site in a dedicated box.

So, it’s been a year at Rentokil. Actually it was last Friday, but I’ve been so busy that I’ve only just got round to writing. I have to say it’s been an amazing year with so many opportunities. So maybe I should explain how I got the job and what it’s involved since 9th December [...]

A few weeks ago I was given the opportunity to go for a day out of the office to the headoffice of Initial Style. Style is part of the Rentokil Initial group and provides conference venues and facilities. They’re currently in the process of being sold off as part of the restructuring of the group. [...]

It’s now official, our office is moving. Thankfully not too far, and to the place where we all thought. I’ve setup a wiki so everyone can discuss: http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/cityplace/

Now you can see what we’re getting up to:

Ironic isn’t it? The week that the networking guy’s out of the office, the network breaks. This time, the dedicated ADSL line for Tax and Treasury’s share trading software failed after BT carried out some work at the local exchange.