December 1st, 2009 by Gareth Llewellyn
With Exchange 2010 available on MSDN I decided to take the risk and jump straight into a migration as the only thing as fun as a well planned migration is shooting from the hip on full auto.
Exchange 2010 cannot co-exist with Exchange 2007 unless it is SP2. The Exchange 2007 SP2 install was exceptionally pain [...]
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November 24th, 2009 by Gareth Llewellyn
As I was updating to the latest Wordpress (2.8.6) I noticed that the About page still showed my old setup.
I moved to a shiny ‘new build’ flat a year or so ago and unfortunately my old Compaq 9000 Rack Cabinet wouldn’t have fitted up the stair case :/ so I bought a nice flat pack [...]
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August 20th, 2009 by Gareth Llewellyn
One of the common issues that appears when integrating a hybrid vision of Hosted Exchange with someones existing infrastructure (so not really Hosted Exchange at all!) is synchronising credentials between the Exchange Server and the local machines or for the more tech savvy the ‘hackiness’ of having disparate forests.
Cross Forest trusts are a possibility [...]
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May 12th, 2009 by Gareth Llewellyn
The next version of the Airbana Airsoft Map has been released:
New features include;
Embeddable YouTube video’s for sites and retailers
Dynamic / On Demand Weather forecasts for sites
The Airbana Twitter bot (http://twitter.com/Airbana )
Edit History – See whats been changed recently
Per Site Date Listing – Simply find your site and click to get a list of Skirmish dates!
‘Custom [...]
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March 31st, 2009 by Gareth Llewellyn
I mentioned a while back that I am working on / experimenting with Cloud Storage and whilst studying the bandwidth graphs / YSlow / FireBug output on one of my websites I wondered if utilising Mosso’s CDN would improve response times / reduce the time Apache spent serving content that never changes.
After some initial experimentation [...]
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March 3rd, 2009 by Gareth Llewellyn
There are a few more technical projects in the works but since its been so long since an update I thought it best to add a quick post.
Since adding myself to Twitter (http://twitter.com/N_A_M_O_S) I’ve wrote a few bots.
The L4DStats Bot only updates stats regarding recently played games and shows top player and top [...]
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January 7th, 2009 by Gareth Llewellyn
Recently I’ve been looking at CleverSafe’s Storage Cloud product and as part of the research I noticed that a small scale DSNet provides more than enough IOPs for small scale mailbox installations.
I took a selection of decommissioned mid-range [Pentium Dual Core / SATA I Disks etc] Workstations to which I installed CentOS 5.0 and the [...]
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November 28th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn
I as well as many others have been enjoying Valve’s new game Left4Dead and whilst I was enjoying the Match Making system and general carnage the SysAdmin in me was thinking “dedicated server….”.
After grabbing a few more achivements (Witch and Hunter headshots ftw) I set up a dedicated server for Left4Dead and let it run [...]
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November 14th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn
When I heard the news that McColo had been pulled I wondered if we’d actually see a drop in Hostile traffic and Spam.
Turns out that there has been a massive drop in Spam levels coming through some of the filters I have dotted around the place.
C&C or Spam Hosts?
I wrote a little script to see [...]
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November 4th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn
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