niems' Ramblings

Thoughts, Rants and other Ramblings of an annoyed IT Guy | All posts modulo spelling and grammar mistakes

SCCM Detection Script (PowerShell) for the Visual C++ Redistributable(s)

As of writing this, I am working as an apprentice in IT and one of my duties is administering our SCCM server, taking care mostly of application and operating system deployments. One of the things we've previously had a lot of trouble with, is deploying the Visual C++ Redistributables.

Surveillance

Smile, You're on CCTV

Against better knowledge, I recently spent a week in England and Scotland. While I was there, I noticed the decidedly pleasant and subtle way of the British in both surveilling their citizens and warning them of terrorism…

Telecommunications

(An Update on) Unitymedia – The Odyssey Continues

In a [not so] recent post, I wrote about my ISP Unitymedia and the problems I had with them. In the weeks after I wrote my blogpost, everything seemed fine. Until two weeks ago...

Installing GitHub's Atom in an Enterprise Environment

Atom is a modern, hackable text editor developed by GitHub. It's based on modern web technologies like NodeJS and is quite popular in the web developer community. Recently I had to come up with a way to automatically install it on multiple computers at work. Unfortunately that's a use case

Unitymedia

Unitymedia – Disrespecting your Customers, One Letter at a Time

This story began in February of 2015 and I was hoping it would be over by now, but unfortunately it still isn't. My Internet Service Provider (ISP) is Unitymedia Germany and has been for the last three-and-a-half years. When I first ordered their service everything was great. The technician who

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SWUpdate.exe – or how Samsung failed to provide a working Downgrade Path for the NP355-E7C Laptop

In early 2014 I was asked to downgrade a laptop to Windows 7. Here I will show you, how that went. Spoiler: Not well…

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Podcasts on Android (in 2014)

In 2013, I wrote a short blog post regarding podcatchers on Android. This is an update from February 2014.