Ever seen the ASCII art things on the net or stuff? The kind of thing where you get a picture made up of letters and characters. Well now you can convert your jpeg pictures to ascii images.
I’ve put the converter on another server since I don´t want to overload this one. Have a play. If it´s being slow that´s because it´s a bit intensive and others might be using it.
ASCII Art Creator
I’ve now moved it here: ASCII Art Creator
With XP SP2, automatic updates have become a lot easier since they are generally automated and any really critical updates get installed without any user intervention. As far as I´m concerned this is all a good thing. There are however all the other updates to consider.
I found out about Office SP2 by reading about it in a magazine. Considering it contained important security updates this is kind of a bad way of doing things. There´s also the fact that it´s not just my two desktops and my laptops to update but every PC in the office. I´m not even going to try and get them to manage updates themselves since I can´t even get them to use "My Documents" for backup reasons.
To make all this easier to manage I´m considering getting a WUS Server to sort out all the updates for me. I just need to check out all the specifics for it since I don´t want to go onto Active Directory yet and most of us work remotely a lot of the time. If I can get it to work on a spare server and just push out updates to a certain workgroup or range of IP addresses then that would be perfect. Time to investigate. If I go ahead I´ll post the results in case any other small businesses are looking at doing something similar.