I have an HTC Touch Pro. Runs Windows Mobile 6.1 - and I'm really happy with the device. Unfortunately WinMo 6 timezone definitions do not include the right settings for Australia - we changed the … more

Well, no surprises there. The Australian list of blocked sites is supposedly now in the wild - and all reports I've seen thus far indicate it's correct, at least for the most part.

ACMA has come … more

Here’s a little tip from a colleague of mine, who we’ll call Geoff for no reason other than that that is his name.

When deploying images from Windows Deployment Services (WDS), sometimes the WDS … more

For the past couple of months I’ve been commuting from my house in suburban Sydney to a customer site in Orange, about 3 hours (225km, 140mi) away. About half of the commute time is highway driving, … more

I don’t mean to say that TechNet and MSDN are bad – quite the opposite in fact. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen such a huge repository of documentation. But what always appears to be missing is the “ … more

M' very good friend Nathan Gropman (with whom I work ... wait, no, with whom I am co-employed - he works while I skive off) has postulated that you can teach a person to solve problems, with the … more

This is a bit of a WTF, because the MS documentation doesn't seem to match up with the implementation.

There are two policy settings that seem to prevent users from establishing their own personal … more

Note: Blunt opinion follows. These are not necessarily the views of my employers, past, present or future.

In recent times Australia has been blessed cursed with a series of clueless, idiotic … more