Our annual Technical Update events are running on January 31 but this time, our Technical Update for Developers is changing ... it is now including Martin Parry, a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. The Developer Evangelists for Microsoft are taking the developer launch for Office 2007 and Vista on the road in the …

NxtGenUG and Dinis Cruz are running 2 day residential courses on Advanced ASP.NET Security training including such topics as Security Principles, .NET Framework Architecture, Threat Modeling, Discovering Vulnerabilities, Penetration Testing Techniques and Secure Coding Techniques. Those of you who attended the Ed …

I have previously posted on the fun I had getting TFS running in our office. Well thus far it has been stable, other than some 'user too stupid' errors, and we have been fairly happy. The next stage was to expose the TFS server out through our firewall to allow home working. This turned out to not be too bad (expect …

I was given a copy of JPod by Douglas Coupland for Christmas, now I will not be adding anything to the range of reviews to say it is very much Microserf V2.0 - similar story but it is just that people seem not to work as hard (but are still in the office as they have little life outside work) and the strange things …

Yesterday I posted about problems with accessing remotely the Virtual PCs from the Virtual Server console. It turns out the problem was domain name related. We had a different name on the internal DNS to that on the external side. In effect the server was trying to call: vmrc://virtualserver.mydomain.co.uk:5900/my pc …

We have been moving over to ISA Server to allow better management of internet resources, one problem we have had is publishing our Virtual Server so our tele-workers can get remote access to the test systems. The ISA application publish rule works fine to allow access to the main Virtual Server console page (can …

As Black Marble is growing we have decided to split out our individual blogs, hence the opening of 'But it works on my PC!'. BM Bloggers will remain an aggregate of all the various sub blogs, which will grow in number over time.

I have been fiddling a bit more on my Vista media center PC and I thought I had a solution to the sleep issues I previously posted about USB Power Asus (and I think many other brands of motherboard) default the USB ports to have no power during S3 sleep mode - to save power. This means that you cannot use a USB device …

In my last post I covered my woes with my upgrade from XP MCE to Vista Ultimate. Well here is an update...... TV After contacting Hauppauge I could not get a date for a HVR 1100 Vista driver. I managed to wait a week with my reduced set of digital channels (less than on analogue!) but could not put up with it any …

I have posted in the past on getting my XP Media Center PC running - not really a product for the novice. So it was with high hopes I decided to upgraded to Vista - Media Center functionality is now standard, it must be easier! The initial update was fine, I ran the upgrade advisor and it told me to remove Nero and …