Connecting to non-Vista/non-Longhorn servers from Windows Vista

Ok, so I finally made the switch to using Windows Vista (Ultimate) on my work laptop. It looks awesome and seems to perform pretty well (this laptop scored a 4.2 on the Windows Performance Index thing)....

Using VB.NET to display Cacti & RTG graphs – Follow-up to Part 1

Recently I wrote a post to start a “thread” about how I’ve been implementing a site monitor application to run on our 42″ plasma TV....

Using VB.NET to display Cacti & RTG graphs – Part 1

At the moment I’m working on an application that will eventually run on one of our plasma screens to show statistics and the current status of a number of things on our network and infrastructure. We use Cacti and RTG to map this data at the moment but they only produce static data, i.e. web pages with a whole load of graphs embedded in them. To get the latest data you have to manually refresh the pages....