Category Archives: Lanning

Powering StreetGeek 0×00: The Network

Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by micolous

I’m going to be working on a new series of blog posts with Firstyear in which we’re going to discuss a lot of StreetGeek‘s network and server infrastructure. Information about this is around the place (or you can ask us), … Continue reading →

Posted in Powering StreetGeek | Comments Off

portal2 2.8.1 API documentation

Posted on Saturday, May 1, 2010 by micolous

There have been some requests that I make portal2‘s API documentation available online and not just available at LANs. So I have published a copy of the portal2 API v2.8.1. This covers the (at the time of writing) current version … Continue reading →

Posted in Coding, Lanning, Projects | Comments Off

Linux iSCSI COW Images, and Windows integration.

Posted on Saturday, January 23, 2010 by micolous

More stuff for RetroLAN PCs, yay! I’ve now got all the RetroLAN PCs running out of a copy-on-write image. This means I now have a single 4GB “base” image with an installation of Windows XP, instead of having 10 of … Continue reading →

Posted in Coding, Computers, Lanning | Comments Off

Dynamically changing Windows’ wallpaper based on hostname

Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by micolous

I have a situation where I’ve got 14 machines booting Windows XP over iSCSI, and they’ve all got the same computer name set, and they each need to have a different wallpaper set on each machine. This runs the “RetroLAN” … Continue reading →

Posted in Coding, Computers, Lanning | Comments Off

RetroLAN fun!

Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 by micolous

For StreetGeek 9.08, some people may have noticed that I changed the format of the presentation software for that event. I really should have blogged about this, say… a month ago… but I really just ran out of time to … Continue reading →

Posted in Coding, Lanning | Comments Off