Lucie's Blog

Windows Update Offline Scan
 (Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:14 +0100)
If you have an off-line machine that you want to check for Windows Updates I have devised a script that will do just that. Simply run this script on a machine that has Internet connectivity. Comment out the SaveBinaryFile bit and copy the script and the... Read More (3743 Characters)

Microsoft Certificate Authority Certificate To Linux / Apache / hMailServer
 (Sat, 7 Aug 2010 18:37 +0100)
Want to make a certificate for your Linux server? Or do you just have some sort of Windows mail server that wants a private and public key but because you are using the Microsoft Certificate Authority in Enterprise CA mode you struggle to make it work? ... Read More (2856 Characters)

.NET FxCop 10 Install from CAB
 (Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:46 +0100)
As numerous people online have pointed out, FxCop 1.36 has been pulled from the Microsoft Downloads website. The new version of FxCop is now available in the " Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 Version 7.1 ... Read More (489 Characters)

Asterisk Speaking Clock Hanging Up (trixbox / asterisk / PBX)
 (Mon, 31 May 2010 20:25 +0100)
Asterisk 1.6 Speaking/Talking clock in my trixbox install was saying "at the sound of the tone the time will be exactly {hour} {minute}" and then hanging up. My symptoms matched one freepbx support ticket ... Read More (1795 Characters)

Convert Unix Linefeeds To DOS C#
 (Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:47 +0100)
Googled around for a quick way to fix line feeds in a string on a Windows computer and found all sorts of silly suggestions (converting all Windows line feeds to Unix, then Unix to Windows or worse just adding additional \r's to all \n's you see, even if t... Read More (361 Characters)