Blog Entries for Marcus Walshe

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC1 Released

Marcus Walshe

Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1 (RC1) has been made publically available. A huge number of updates are included in this service pack and complete list of these updates (and deployment guides for,overviews of, changes to and enterprise guideance for) Microsoft Vista SP1 can be found here .

The installation of Windows Vista SP1 RC1 (which can be downloaded here does sound a little complicated, but does break down into a few steps. Microsoft provide two methods for installing the sof [...]

This seems to sum up my week.

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Massive amounts of malware redirects in searches

Marcus Walshe

I would advise reading through the article that Alex Eckelberry has published on the SunbeltBlog site. Here is the link: http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/breaking-massive-amounts-of-malware.html

Looking at the URLs that appear in the screenshots on the site, they all appear to be random collections of alpha/numeric characters, and they all appear to be Chinese registered domains. Google has been notified of the problem and have removed some of these domains, but others remain a [...]

Resizing a Microsoft Virtual Server Virtual Hard Disk

Marcus Walshe

I suppose I should have included this in the previous entry, but, as I have been accused of being biased, here is how to resize a Microsoft Virtual Server virtual hard disk.

Microsoft Virtual Server does not come with any tools to allow you to do this so download VHDResize from here.

VHDResize (formally VHDExpand) will allow you to resize Microsoft's VS VHD files and will also convert between Fixed and Dynamic file types. This is a sector by sector copy operation from one [...]

Resizing a VMWare Virtual Hard Disk

Marcus Walshe

I was asked by a colleague the other days how to expand a virtual machine hard disk, so, here it is.

You can increase the size of the VMware virtual disk that you have a VM running on using the command line tool vmware-vdiskmanager. This tool will allow you to, amongst other things, resize a virtual hard disk.

There are a couple of caveats before you usethis. The machine must be shutdown as the VMDK file must be locked to perform this action against it, and, the virtual ma [...]

Advanced Wi-Fi Network Detection - Kind Of.

Marcus Walshe

ThinkGeek.com have done it again. They have looked at people working in IT and asked the question "What do these poor souls need?" and as usual have come up trumps.

Introducing the Wi-Fi Detector Shirt, Wi-Fi Signal Status for You and the World!

"Here at ThinkGeekwe're pretty lazy when it comes to technology. We expect our gadgets to do all the busywork while we focus on the high level important tasks like reading blogs. That's why w [...]

Worst iPhone Accessory Available?

Marcus Walshe

The much anticipated Apple iPhone launches in the UK today, so the queues of people waiting for the last couple of days outside the Apple store in Regents Street in London can finally go home and take a shower. The levels of interest that this story is generating are massive, even the BBC website is getting in on the act (following extract from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6254986.stm)

"The man who is first in the queue - Greg Packer, a 43-year-old former highway maintenan [...]