Very parochial stuff, of no interest but the utterly geeky with a bent for Microsoft isometric diagrams in Visio:

Microsoft’s 3D server stencils are transformed by 28.55° not 30° used by most isometric diagrams, and I think that equates to 1 down, 2 across in a grid that is 2.5mm by 2.72mm, but my trigonometry has failed me…

Great, got that off my chest.

I know why MS have turned TCP IP v6 on by default in Vista and Server 2008, I just don’t use it and don’t need it turned on – it makes ipconfig really messy. You can’t uninstall it, and even de-selecting it in the NIC properites leaves it there, but you can disable the tunnelling interfaces that pop up in ipconfig, or even disable it completely.

This article just about says it all http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/09/09/disable-and-turn-off-ipv6-support-in-vista/, but just to jog my memory all that’s needed is to add the ‘DisabledComponents’ entry to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters and set it to 1.

Geez, I wish I’d seen this before:

http://www.gattach.net/

Makes GMail your default mail client in Windows.

Is it worth reading more?

http://www.catandgirl.com/

I can’t decide.

I like this quote in the store though:

‘If television is a babysitter the internet is a drunk librarian WHO WON’T SHUT UP’

Oh – and I really want this t-shirt!

Before I forget again, this is the site that has the exam stuff to load into visual cert:

http://www.examcollection.com/

If you’ve not seen it before, Photosynth is an MS labs app that takes a set photos of a location like, say, a market square or the exterior of a building, and kind of mashes them altogether to make a sort of 3D environment you can navigate around. Uptil recently they only had a version that would let you look around environments they had precreated but now you can upload your own photos and ’synth them’.

So if you can really have a burning desire to rush out and take a whole heap of photos of your backyard and synth them so you can get a kind of blocky picture of what your backyard looks like your prayers are answered:

http://photosynth.net/

Hard-reset at the ready:

http://www.microsoft.com/IE8