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 …

I am now a certified Scrum Master having completed a course with Mike Cohn in London. I have read about Scrum a good deal in the past, and it turns out I had not been that wrong in the way I had tried to implement it. So was it a good course, I certainly think so, Mike leads the class well. As with most project …

This is the first time I have got Internet access since DDD4 on Saturday. You can now get my DDD4 slides about continuous integration. I have edited them a bit from the version I used at the weekend, as the session was very demo lead I have dropped in main configuration samples I used as slide notes. I hope they are …

I am convinced that the TFS install has an hidden registry entry that counts the number of time you try to install it, only allowing success after some random number has been reached. The number of blog post you see around the ' I tried and tried and on my X attempt it work". The problem is you seem to have to have all …