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Deploying vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 with AD auth 12 Jun 2013 | 11:00 pm
In theory using the vCenter Server Appliance (hereafter vCSA) offers a number of big advantages over using vCenter. Firstly you don’t need to commit a Windows Server OS licence, secondly to manage you...
Tunlr enable/disable script for Microsoft Surface 26 Dec 2012 | 05:52 am
I recently bought a Microsoft Surface and I have been wanting to watch a few programmes on BBC iPlayer whilst out of the country for Christmas. I discovered Tunlr – a free media proxy service which al...
UAC elevation for Windows batch script 11 Dec 2012 | 04:33 pm
I recently needed to make an interactive batch script elevate for admin privileges. I found an example script by jagaroth, and then refined it to make it even more compact. It only writes out one temp...
Cross-compiling FFmpeg with shared libraries on Synology for Intel, ARM, and QorIQ 12 Oct 2012 | 01:37 pm
This method will build FFmpeg with shared libraries using a Ubuntu Desktop 12 VM. The >10MB size of the static executable is kind of getting out of hand especially on embedded systems with very limite...
Bliss package for Synology NAS 17 Sep 2012 | 11:30 pm
Bliss is a Java application written by Dan Gravell which can manage file names, tags and album art for your music collection and which can also enforce their consistency. It is designed to be left r...
Unified Windows PE 4.0 builder for Windows ADK 5 Sep 2012 | 10:22 pm
This script will build Windows PE 4.0 (for x86, or AMD64 or both) including scripts and drivers of your choosing, it will create ISO images with both BIOS and UEFI support, and will also upload the re...
Windows software deployment and update script 29 Aug 2012 | 11:08 pm
For many years I have used scripts of my own design to build workstations and to roll out software updates. At the time I created these I found that most of the tools which could accomplish these task...
Deploying Windows Photo Gallery 2012 23 Aug 2012 | 12:25 am
Though it seems primarily pitched at home users, Microsoft’s Windows Photo Gallery is a useful image management tool even in a professional environment. It’s distributed as part of a suite of software...
Synology NAS for SME workloads – my design decisions 27 Jul 2012 | 08:26 am
Background It all started last year with a humble single drive DS111 which I bought for home, speculating that I could probably run Serviio on it to stream my movies to my Bluray player. I managed to ...
Building the Intel EMGD display driver for Sony VAIO P with fully working backlight control 6 Jul 2012 | 09:38 am
Background The Windows 7 driver for the GMA 500 GPU has not been updated for nearly two years now (v2030 from September 2010). According to this document Intel will only support and continue to mainta...
