How moving email services to an Exchange Server revealed email suffix matching as a missing feature, and how to implement that feature using a Transport Agent.
RegExCatchAll Transport Agent for Exchange 2007/2010
By Howard | Published May 29th, 2010Remote Desktop Connection won't connect.
By Howard | Published September 22nd, 2008I rebuilt my main desktop a few days ago and ever since I’ve not been able to connect to it with Remote Desktop. I click connect from the other machine and the buttons grey out for a moment before they reset. No error message is displayed. Checking the event log shows a number of Application…
My 1080p HTPC: Movie and TV management
By Howard | Published July 14th, 2008What do we buy the birthday boy who has a no-media policy?
That’s what Phil asked me before my birthday last month. He was referring to the fact that I have no CDs, no DVDs no optical media of any description cluttering my living room. All our TV and movies are stored on a variety of…
My 1080p HTPC: Freesat with Vista
By Howard | Published July 13th, 2008Having ditched Freeview for signal quality reasons, it’s time to talk about getting the satellite cards to work under Vista Media Centre – something that until MS release the “Fuji” update is not as trivial as you’d think! Vista’s tuning architecture doesn’t understand DVB-S (or -S2), so can’t natively tune satellite cards, so we need…
My 1080p HTPC: Multiple Freeview Tuners
By Howard | Published July 12th, 2008When I originally built my HTPC, I used 2 Freeview cards. Each Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T500 has two Freeview tuners in one PCI card. By installing two of these (and with some registry tweaking) it is possible to build a device that can record/watch 4 Freeview channels at once.
Out of the box the Vista Media Centre GUI…
Disable Windows Desktop Search Explorer Integration
By Howard | Published July 10th, 2008Another post from the “helping future Howard” category. I use Outlook 2007, which is great, but in order to be able to search your email with decent performance you must install Windows Desktop Search. Unfortunately when you do this it integrates with Explorer without asking permission to do so. This means that should you hit…
My 1080p HTPC: The Software
By Howard | Published June 26th, 2008As I mentioned in the last post, I’m running the Media Center (yes, that’s how they spell it) interface from Vista Ultimate to drive my HTPC. Out of the box Vista Media Center (VMC) is capable of playing DVDs and MPEG2 broadcast content – such as the output of a Hauppauge DVB-T or DVB-S…
Traffic Graphing
By Howard | Published December 3rd, 2007The image on the left is just one of the graphs generated automatically for tracking the data usage on my home network.
That particular graph shows the usage of my ADSL connection over time; green is downloaded data, while the blue line shows my uploads. It is generated by Tobi Oetiker’s outstanding MRTG – The…
Installing Leopard from a Disk Image
By Howard | Published November 29th, 2007My first generation MacBook Pro steadfastly refuses to read the dual-layer DVD that Leopard comes on. All my Windows machines can read it (or at least the BootCamp partition) and my G5 can read the disk too, but the MacBook Pro won’t boot off it. However, I do have plenty of external drives…
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