http://www.tomwaller.co.uk/blog Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:08:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since getting my XBox 360 last Christmas, I've been looking at ways to get my media shifted around my flat. The thought of having a central store for all my movies and music and Alexs photos really appealed to me. So I spent some time investigating all the ways I ... http://www.tomwaller.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/06/inside-peek-my-home-media-setup-with-twonkymedia-and-nas4220/ It was a cold, dark, day in the office, and an eerie presence could be felt lingering in the air. It was the ghost printers, hanging around on our Citrix servers, not disconnecting after the user sessions had long been terminated. OK, so my novel writing skills leave a lot to to ... http://www.tomwaller.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/05/citrix-metaframe-4-and-the-curse-of-the-mysterious-offline-printers/ For sometime now, I've noticed that pretty much all the video content I download (all legal of course) comes in a strange new format called .MKV. Well, to be more precise, MKV is a container, not format. It contains h264 video files and various different types of audio, commonly DTS. MKV ... http://www.tomwaller.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/04/playing-mkv-videos-on-the-xbox-360/ As time passes on, i'm finding more and more bugs with the new Windows Vista operating system. Having been forced into upgrading (i'm not sure it should actually qualify as an upgrade) at work by the powers that be, I find myself being tormented on a daily basis by issues ... http://www.tomwaller.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/07/another-vista-gripe-wheres-my-damn-shutdown-button/ One high point of being jet-lagged and sleep-deprived, I had plenty of time to install my new drives. They landed on my doorstep at 9am Saturday morn, fresh from www.ebuyer.com, along with 2x Samsung SH-S183 SATA DVD burners. For a while now i've been thinking of using up some of the ... http://www.tomwaller.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/07/2-spanky-new-500gb-western-digital-wd5000aaks-drives/ Wow, I've never been up this early in my life. I think the best advise I can give to anyone who travels into a different timezone, then back to GMT is don't sleep during the day! After a 8 hour over-night flight, I got home at about 11am GMT. I wasn't ... http://www.tomwaller.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/07/jet-lag/ Well, not long to go now! 5 days to be precise. We ordered our themepark tickets last night, they came to £270 in total which isn't too bad considering that gives us 2 weeks unlimited access to all the Disney parks and Universal parks, including the water ones too! I'm planning ... http://www.tomwaller.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/06/florida-here-we-come/ Ok, so I might be slightly biased here, seeing as I wrote the script, so naturally i'm gonna boast a little. I wrote the script as a replacement for our current user logon script at work. Currently, a script is executed when a user hits our domain, which creates some text ... http://www.tomwaller.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/05/possibly-the-best-vbscript-logon-script-in-the-world/ I'm currently involved in a project at work which has required me to deploy Windows Vista to a huge infrastructure of computers. Since we do not (yet) have SMS in our environment, I've had to opt for the Lite Touch method of deployment. There are actually two types of deployment using ... http://www.tomwaller.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/04/howto-create-a-bootable-usb-thumb-drive/ This weekend Alex and I were visited by Alex's Parents. They drove down from Northumberland on Friday and were with us until Sunday. Seeing as we rarely get to see them as the distance is sooo huge, we decided we should go out for some food and drinks. We asked ... http://www.tomwaller.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/04/crofters-brasserie-witham-essex/