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Book Review: The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll

padd — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:39:57 +0000

The Cuckoo’s Egg is set in the 80′s where Cliff, an Astronomer at Berkley gets reassigned to the IT department instead of leaving after finishing a research project. A few days into his new role, he is tasked at investigating an accounting error of 75c on the mainframe billing system. What should have been a [...]

How not to move your iTunes music!

padd — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:26:00 +0000

This is a bit of a lesson to myself on how iTunes is set up and the bizzareness of it all. I was at a client’s to fix their laptop that was running sluggish and on which skype was refusing to work on. On inspection, I found that the primary partition was running seriously low [...]

How to fix McAfee VirusScan Corporate update error.

padd — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:38:42 +0000

McAfee Update Issue – Affecting corporate users world wide McAfee released an Anti Virus update early morning on Wednesday 21st April that falsely detects a core windows file, svchost.exe as a virus. It then quarantines or deletes the file causing windows to become essentially useless. This problem seems to be only affecting Windows XP SP3 [...]

How to upgrade a Jailbroken iPhone 3Gs to 3.1.2

padd — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:09:15 +0000

If your SHSH hashes for your iPhone have been logged to Cydia, you can upgrade your iPhone firmware to 3.1.2 with a bit of hacking. Step 1 Check to make sure that your SHSH files are logged with Cydia If this is the case, you are in luck and should be able to upgrade you [...]

Xbox Live Gold Membership for £25

padd — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:17:01 +0000

I got an Xbox for Christmas and have pretty much spent the past month playing Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox Live using the free 1 month membership. Unfortunately this has now run out and looking at how much Microsoft charge for a year’s membership, I was taken aback £39.99 a year, especially as Sony do [...]

Can’t sleep…

padd — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:53:08 +0000

I can’t sleep. I have been up since 3am so I figured as it has been a while since I made a post, a quick update was in order. The past few months have been quite busy for me, I have been focusing a lot on my career and building up my certifications, work has [...]

A break from the summer blockbusters

padd — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:33:46 +0000

Transformers 2 left me feeling amazing and Star Trek did not disappoint one bit. However the build up to these films always leaves me a little bit sad, in Terminator Salvation for example, we were treated with a smashing trailer promising robots, explosions, gripping dialogue and a wicked soundtrack except what we got was a [...]

Exchange Activesync not working on WM6

padd — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:15:49 +0000

I just had a problem where one of our user’s HTC tytn ii phones was refusing to sync with exchange over the mobile network. I conducted the usual action of veryfying the password but could not find the problem. So I googled for the error code 85010014 which came up with loads of articles about [...]

Some Windows VPN connections through ISA 2006 failing

padd — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:57:25 +0000

Having successfully set up our company’s ISA 2006 Server, tested it from home and on a few mobile networks, I confidently distubuted the instructions to the staff of how to set up and gain acces to the VPN. A few days later, I was sitting back and admiring my success, when i recieved a phone [...]

Setting up WSS3 email support and recieving SMTP error: missing adsiisex.dll

padd — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:21:21 +0000

The time has come to set up our Windows Sharepoint Services installation to receive emails. One of the first things that you need to do is install the SMTP service on the sharepooint server using add/remove windows components. So you go through the motions: Click Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs. Click the Add/Remove [...]