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Sharing an IPv6 tunnel from a Windows machine

I've had an IPv6 tunnel from Hurricane Electric for nearly a year now, but through that time it has only ever been to one machine. Today I decided to try to allow every other machine on my network to have global IPv6 connectivity too, and was quite surprised at how little information there was out there when using a Windows box as the tunnel end-point. Not surprising really, but I decided to press on, as that is the only machine I have on 24/7. I've written this guide in the hope that it helps someone else.

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Written by dezza on 2010-05-12 13:47:29. Read more...

Loughborough Internationalised Domain Names

So... Lack of updates recently.. not had much to say really. Anyways, was in a lecture this morning and the lecturer was trying to encourage us to spread the use of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs)

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Written by dezza on 2010-03-16 05:20:31. Read more...

WSUS 3.0 SP2

After being offline for a month or so, today my server told me that it was ready to upgrade from WSUS 3.0 SP1 to WSUS 3.0 SP2.

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Written by dezza on 2009-09-13 08:01:46. Read more...

PsExec

I came across a very useful tool today, for computer management on a domain. PsExec allows an administrator to execute programs on a remote machine.

I was using it to remotely uninstall software (psexec \\machine -i msiexec /x{GUID} /qb) and then install a different piece (which unfortunately wasn't msi based and had to have the user click finish at the end (psexec \\machine -i -d -c install.exe)

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Written by dezza on 2009-09-07 13:21:48. Read more...

Firefox 3.5

I've been trying out Firefox 3.5, and I have a couple of points, one good and one bad.

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Written by dezza on 2009-09-01 03:07:14. Read more...

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - April 2009?

Hmmm... It may be Patch Tuesday today, but why are Microsoft releasing an update with April 2009 in its title? - "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - April 2009 (KB890830)" appeared in an email from my WSUS server this morning.. I wonder how long until MicroSoft realise...

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Written by dezza on 2009-08-11 01:16:45. Read more...

WSUS, IIS and IPv6

Recently, I have been playing around with Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), which is responsible for sending Windows Updates to all machines in my domain. WSUS hosts its updates on an IIS (Internet Information Services) website.

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Written by dezza on 2009-07-05 05:49:24. Read more...

A rant about adverts

One thing that has been really annoying me over the last year or so, is adverts that, as their sound track, have just a track of music. I, and I'm sure many others, do not watch adverts when they're on - I do something else, be it check emails or any other task. As such I only *listen* to them. How do I know what you're advertising if you don't even say what it is, and rely on someone to be actually watching the screen to see your product / company name appear?

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Written by dezza on 2009-05-22 09:14:08. Read more...

Freeview EPG Reminder Setting

A couple of months ago, my freeview box received an update to a new teletext sponsored Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) making it supposedly better. However, now to add a reminder for a programme, I have to press yellow to go to the TV guide options, wait for that page to load, then press 5 to set a reminder, and select which type of reminder. How is it better if I have to go through more steps and time to do the same thing? Surely a better solution would be to simply 'press 5 to add a reminder', rather than going through a separate menu? As far as I can tell, the 5 button doesn't do anything on the main EPG screen anyways! /rant.

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Written by dezza on 2009-04-11 14:11:48. Read more...

Naked Day

Just a reminder to everyone that the 9th April is naked day. This means that this website, along with many others, will be stripping all the CSS out of their sites and leaving you with just the text and images - no design.

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Written by dezza on 2009-04-06 03:17:08. Read more...

How political correctness irritates me

I normally like to keep my opinions to myself, usually because if something doesn't directly affect me I don't see what good my opinion will have on it. However, a couple of recent news articles have got me a bit annoyed about both the way that people twist things to fit their argument and political correctness going, one again, too far.

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Written by dezza on 2009-02-15 06:58:18. Read more...

Shutdown Event Tracker randomly stopped working

So, a couple of days ago, I noticed that Shutdown Event Tracker had stopped working on my server. I have no idea what has caused this, it has been working fine for many months, maybe even a year up until now.

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Written by dezza on 2009-01-30 11:45:38. Read more...

Stuck without a browser

So... I lost firefox. The latest ubuntu update for it has caused it to break. It loads with just a grey window with nothing on it. Not even the firefox logo in the top corner :(

As a result, I'm currently browsing with lynx until I can be bothered to fix it / install opera.

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Written by dezza on 2008-12-19 19:56:04. Read more...

The C days of Y2K

I know that is quite old, but it is still rather amusing, and it is that time of year.

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Written by dezza on 2008-12-11 03:23:45. Read more...

3 mobile stealth billing

I recently received my 3-mobile monthly bill, which is normally £15 per month. However, to my surprise it was £16 this month.

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Written by dezza on 2008-11-22 10:06:41. Read more...

Stopping atkbd.c flooding the logs on a Dell Laptop

For nearly a year now I have had the logs on my Dell Vostro 1000 flooded with messages like the following:

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Written by dezza on 2008-11-01 13:34:01. Read more...

Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

Yesterday I came across HTCPCP - or Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol. It was intended as an April Fool's joke, but is still rather amusing. I particularly liked the status code 418 - I'm a teapot.

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Written by dezza on 2008-10-24 04:20:31. Read more...

Facebook Pirate

A friend recently told me about Facebook Pirate. However, it was no longer available. After a couple of minutes, I found a way to get it back. This method requires you to have Firefox and Firebug installed.

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Written by dezza on 2008-09-27 12:28:24. Read more...

BBC cock up

The BBC managed to cock up a live broadcast of the news last night. They had a problem with the sound - the test sound was being played instead of the sound that should have been played. I managed to get a line from the TV to my machine just when they thought they'd fixed it (or not!). While the voiceover was on, there was a generic BBC one technical problem screen displaying. Anyways, here's the recording (ogg format, 800kB). I cut out most of the first report as it was not relevant.

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Written by dezza on 2008-09-10 03:15:52. Read more...

Mobile Intertubes

Owing to the fact that in the place I am living this year I cannot get a DSL/Cable/56k landline connection, I have decided to invest in mobile broadband from 3. I will try this on my Ubuntu laptop soon, but I'm being lazy at the moment.

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Written by dezza on 2008-09-06 14:07:47. Read more...

RDPDD.dll failed to load - Remote Desktop woes

I've spent most of today without RDP access to my server. As soon as I connected I got immediately booted off, from any machine. A telnet connection to port 3389 connected fine, which led me to believe something was playing up on the server.

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Written by dezza on 2008-08-05 00:19:17. Read more...

Test of code

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This should be bold

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Written by dezza on 2008-07-26 16:09:54. Read more...

Test Post

Here is yet another test post.. woo

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Written by dezza on 2008-07-21 08:49:55. Read more...