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Like many others, Im always out on the lookout for some property bargains, however when I do find a house its so easy to get caught up with certain bling an forget all about the must have important features you really require in a house.

I have put together a list of question to ask when dealing with agents, these question are broken down in to two type; contact by Phone or contact Face to Face ie: at the property inspection or open house.

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Recently I had a requirement to create a bootable WinPE iso image, i looked around an thought there would be some kind of general community script around but could not find one.

This requirement required that all network card drivers were installed and thus creating a one size fits all bootable ISO which could then be used to “net use” a remote network share and start the installation of Windows 2008.

This is the script I came up with. Its fairly simple. all you have to do is download the network drivers from the BTS download page here: http://driverpacks.net/driverpacks/windows/xp/x86/lan you can also download eg mass storage drivers if required.

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Recently I was required to create a re-runable script which would configure an IIS web site and Application Pool. This script required to be re-runable to correct any inconsistencies from web server to web server.

The delivery method was to use Altiris to  deploy to numerous servers at once.

This script uses the Altitis WlogEvents.exe to pass back error and informational status to Altiris for collection and evaluation.

Although this configures HttpS and binds the site to an https IP address I am yet to configure the script to assign the correct Certificate to the site

Code Below…

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Well it been a while now and have had many people (friends) asking when my OzMyth repository will be up and running

initially I started this as a mechanism of helping my friends out (and also so I wouldn’t have to keep spending my weekends rebuilding their MythTV boxes over and over again.

What I’ve done is simply created some metapackages to assist in the installation of MythTV as well as some configuration scripts

To use the repository simply add the following lines to you /etc/apt/sources.list file

Method 1

1. open a terminal
2. type in “sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list” to bring up the sources repository listing
3. add the following codedeb http://bencic.net/repo/ hardy main
   deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free
4. type in “sudo aptitude update” to refresh the apt packages listing

Method 2

1. open a terminal
2. type in
   “wget http://bencic.net/repo/pool/hardy/ozmyth-repo_2.0_all.deb“
3. type in
   “dpkg -i ozmyth-repo_2.0_all.deb“
4. type in “sudo aptitude update” to refresh the apt packages listing

Once the repository is installed you can install OzMyth through Synaptics or via the command line sudo aptitide install ozmyth

After about 6 weeks of searching, we have finally chosen our wedding reception venue. Our wedding will be taking place at Lauriston House in early April 2008.The staff are friendly and the food is great however there are some things to watch out for when choosing Lauriston House as with any venue.

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I recently got my Wordpress site up and running.
I had a need to have a “Parent Page” which would dynamically lists its child pages as a list. Example

Initially I thought there would be a method to call the wp_list_pages() function from the page content but I couldn’t find how (or doesn’t exist).

I explored my options there was exec-php however I didn’t want add any potential security holes by allowing php code to be executed (I have been stung in the past with something similar).

Searching through the internet, I couldn’t find any help out

I ended up creating a custom pages template.

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On the 28 December 2007 we purchased a new Canon EOS 40D. This is our first digital SLR and we were a little confused because this is all new to us. I started to jot down a few tip and features which i have read from numerous sites articles so that I don’t forget them. to read the full article click on”Read the rest of this article” link. this is still a work in progress.. any assistance would be appreciate.

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I was searching through the net looking for some way to place a horizontal menu at the top header for my new Wordpress site. Finally I found a site which pointed/guided me to editing the “header.php” of my theme “Default” (the one which comes with Wordpress)

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