Hi all, well I said I was going to try and keep the web site up to date but that has not worked out so well, so anyway, there is some useful stuff here I hope. I am a systems admin living and working in New Caledonia, I have lived here for nearly twenty years and love the… Read More »
After a break of nearly 27 years off the air I decided a couple of months back that it might be fun to get back into Amateur Radio again…. So, asking around locally here (I live in New Caledonia) it seemed best option for buying a new rig was overseas. So I sprung for a Yaesu FT-450D which… Read More »
As a recently newish owner of a Lenovo Carbon X1 I was pretty amazed to see that Lenovo swapped the Fn and Ctrl keys around on the latest generation. It’s one of those things that you have got to ask, what (wtf) were they thinking ? a bit like Windows 8 and the Start Menu really LOL The… Read More »
I was running up a new VM in VMware last night (Windows NT4) and after installing needed to install SP6a. Only problem was after first install of Windows NT there was no tools (needs SP6a) and no network so no easy way to get the files into the NT4 VM. So I thought just mounting an ISO would… Read More »
So, in part one I went over the hardware and the install. But you ask, how does it all work, can I do real work on such a setup? I guess my answer to that is that this is a lab, but I also have some stuff here doing useful work. I have all my local network monitoring… Read More »
I recently blew away all my low power vm lab running XenServer 6.5 and installed Vmware ESXi 6.0. Why I am not exactly sure but I just got bored with XenServer. Not that it’s doesn’t work or anything, in fact in my environment it did probably mostly everything I wanted. However I usually do this once a year,… Read More »
I recently blew away all my low power vm lab running XenServer 6.5 ( http://www.hardstaff.com/lower-power-vm-lab-pt-ii/ and http://www.hardstaff.com/lower-power-vm-lab/ ) and installed Vmware ESXi 6.0. Why I am not exactly sure but I just got bored with XenServer. Not that it’s doesn’t work or anything, in fact in my environment it did probably mostly everything I wanted. However I usually do this… Read More »
If you’ve been putting this off because Dell say it’s not supported fear not. The only gotcha I have found is a simple one to fix. Two issues actually but they are related. I’d also suggest a clean install if you can. I tried an upgrade and while it worked I would not recommend it. The first problem… Read More »
Am listing here all the staff photos that I have in one place. If you have information about a photo you can comment or send to me via email to [email protected] with a link to the photo. If you have one I don’t have just send it to me.
All of these photos belong to Anne Dubois and Anne’s Mum, Elizabeth A. Dubois. Secretary to the Programme Director (1976) These are but a small part of Anne’s and her Mums collection that I recently scanned. Enjoy. Please try to limit comments to naming the people and places in them so that I can collect these names and… Read More »
All of these photos belong to Anne’s Mum, Elizabeth A. Dubois. Secretary to the Programme Director (1976) These are but a small part of Anne’s and her Mums collection that I recently scanned. Enjoy. Please try to limit comments to naming the people and places in them so that I can collect these names and add the photo… Read More »