In other news, I’ve been working on some new features for the ever popular PHP Unserializer! It will now give you the option to make changes to your data and put it back into a serialized format. Currently it only works with arrays that don’t have any sub-arrays, but I will gradually expand it to cover these too. We hope it’s of some use.

For whatever reason, it’s quite possible to end up with a Symantec AntiVirus client which isn’t talking to the server – You may have accidentally uninstalled Symantec AV from you’re server, reinstalled the server or moved it on to another server. So how do you get those SAV clients to re-register in the console?

Well, I decided to use a logon script to sort out a number of clients in one hit. Download the following av-fix batch file:

Download: av-fix.bat

In the case of SBS 2003 – you need to place this file in the netlogon folder. Once in place, open up the file and place your Symantec server name in the correct place, replacing “\\yourserver”.

To make the logon script silent, I decided to use a small program called hstart. Download it from here and place in the netlogon folder. My script uses the widely available robocopy, so get yourself a copy of that and place it in the same folder.

Now, from your main logon batch script you just need to insert the following line:

hstart /NOCONSOLE “av-fix.bat”

This executes the batch file in hidden mode (the user won’t notice anything)

The av-fix.bat file places a grc.dat in the correct place on your client machines. It also updates the pki directory.

It’s tested to work on XP (but I’m unsure about Vista…)

Sit back and watch the Symantec Console repopulate as the clients login. Beautiful! I hope you find it useful!

Secondly, Henry has installed a new theme. It’s only one from the Wordpress Themes catalogue, but a very nice one at that. We could really use a nice logo for the top left now, and possibly a change of name too?!

http://192.168.1.1/setup.cgi?next_file=adsl_driver.htm

This should give you:

DSL Noise Margin

DSL Attenuation

DSL Transmit Power

I’d like to take a moment to thank Chris & co at Kernow broadband for providing a dedicated internet connection for the camera. Stefan at Davey electrical provided his cherry picker on which we mounted the camera. Without the fantastic help of these people the camera wouldn’t have been possible!

We hope to be back next year to provide even better coverage of the grounds.

Update: I’ve discovered that Outlook 2007 works fine if you switch the networking options in virtualbox from “NAT” to “Bridged”. It also fixed some other issues I was having (mapped network drives and group policy didn’t get applied. For reference the domain controller is a Windows 2008 SBS server.

The camera will be capable of panning a full 360 degrees and will be positioned some 30 feet above the showground. The live stream will be viewable for the duration of the event on www.showgroundlive.com

We hope you enjoy the show, even if you’re not there!

Day 1 – Set off at 5am from Exeter, having stayed the night at Reg’s flat. I was trying to convert his Navman S30 to run TomTom – However it took 5 hours, so I didn’t actually get any sleep at all. We set off and I managed a whole 30 mins before handing over to Reg. By 9am we had made good progress, scooting around the edge of London. Then, disaster, the low oil light came on in the car. We pulled in and bought some oil for a quick top up which seemed to fix the problem. In no time at all we were queuing for the ferry. We were way to early so had to wait about an hour and a half. We finally boarded the Norfolkline – cheap but very impressive inside. We left at 12pm, The sea was flat and the crossing was very smooth. Unloading the ferry took a while and we were soon getting used to driving on the right hand side. We forgot to fit the GB sticker and headlight adapters, and passed some police looking extremely uneasy. We pulled in as quick as possible to get the stuff fitted.

We soon settled in to doing about 80mph with the cruise control on. Then a bright flash, what on earth was that. It looked like a mobile speed camera! No! I’m sure I was sticking to the limit, and I had just been overtaken by a french car going faster than me. I don’t know what it was.

Arriving at the resort we were met with stunning views of the alps. There seemed to be a major lack of toilets so we stopped to make some yellow snow. About 15 mins and we were there. It was snowing and the roads were icy. We parked up and soon found the car became stuck. We had to fit the snow chains to make any progress at all.

Check-in took a long time but we paid the 300 euros deposit and picked up the key to the apartment and lift passed no problem. We also picked up the snowboards, and paid an additional 10 euros insurance for the week. We entered the apartment and wow, it was way above expectations.

Day 2 – Very keen to get on the slopes. We soon found some green slopes and went down for our first real run. Ouch, lots of falling over and high speed crashes. I fell off the drag lift. We went back for lunch and then went for a much larger green slope. This was impressive and took about 2 hours to complete, by the time we reached the bottom we were ready to call it a day. My leg was already hurting quite a lot. We returned to the apartment and soon went out for some drinks with the polish.

Day 3 – Keen once again, this time aiming a bit higher at the Jandri express. We met up with the polish and went up Jandri 1 and Jandri 2, right to the top. Then we took the underground train to the very top. The run down was amazing, but my leg was seriously hurting and walking was very painful. Jay realised the camera had gone missing, so he went back with Reg to look for it. I stayed at the 3600 cafe and shared a jug of wine and some potato thing with the polish – yum.

We took a chair lift back up, and Kasia was super scared having never been on one before. As we got off she managed to punch me in the face and I heard a nasty cracking noise in my face. Seems like I got away without a broken nose.

We made our way down to about 2600 and then it was getting late, so we took a big cart (technical term) down and then the tiny white lifts. Reg took his board in for repair after the binding broke.

w32tm /config /syncfromflags:MANUAL /manualpeerlist:time.nist.gov
w32tm /config /update

Obviously you can use your preferred time server instead of time.nist.gov, but run these two commands and wait a few minutes, and you should see your clock correct itself. The process will show ‘time-service’ events in the system event log to confirm your changes.

So what’s required? Well today’s box consisted of:

• Dried cranberries (small portion)
• Americas nut mix (almond, pecan & brazil nut) (medium portion)
• Fresh crunchy apple (large portion)

I’d welcome any more suggestions and I’ll create a list.