I was looking around for some CPU benchmarks and happened to stumble across this piece of crap on what always used to be quite a good web site http://www.tomshardware.com/us/press/OCP-Power-Safety-26 I have reproduced the entire ad / article lest it be pulled. Myth 3: A Single Rail Power Supply Is As Safe As A Multi Rail Power Supply! NO! Single-rail… Read More »
This ones too weird, when I found what it was I didn’t find anyone else who was having the same problem, so I post it here in the hope that someone can shed some light on it. We built some new servers using these nice new Antec cases with Antec PSU and Intel Server Board S3200SHV, all was… Read More »
Found out something interesting today that might apply to other brands of RAID cards but I am talking about the 3Ware 9650 series here, I am using this one – 3Ware 9650SE-8LPML, so for info, just in case you have this function on your card and didn’t know about it. http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata2-9650.asp These are multilane controllers which are pretty… Read More »
Have been running Windows 7 for a about a month now at home since the last build (7000) came out, and I have to say I am mega impressed, I came so close to dumping Windows for a Mac, something I always said I would never do, but this came along just in the nick of time. I… Read More »
I had this error with Firefox after the latest update to 3.05 on Windows Vista, I got it on my work machine but not my home machine which are almost identical. So what would happen is I get this dialog box saying "software update failed" then some rubbish about make sure another copy of Firefox is not running… Read More »
I started seeing in a lot of emails recently the use of the word “revert” in place of “get back to you” or “respond”. Just never made any sense to me, this one I got today. “Will revert with numbers as soon as I have the information”. I was starting to think it was just me but I… Read More »
Hi all, sorry the inconvenience but the downloads section is down just now while I clean up some server errors, will be back up soon. Update : Have got the minimum back up for Loggerythm downloads. Cheers Phill
Yesterday SOPHOS, a well known Anti Virus vendor published a report here "Pitcairn Islands relays most spam per person, reveals Sophos" the gist of which is that 10 countries that have barely any population are the world leaders of "spam emitted per capita" to Mr SOPHOS I say what a load of baloney. Even if this was true,… Read More »
or an Adobe Acrobat Reader alternative … OK, I admit it, I absolutely hate Acrobat Reader, it is the biggest load of shite I have installed on my PC. It is slow to load, slow to do just about anything, when it opens in your browser you know you can probably kiss your browser session goodbye, then there… Read More »
This is an article about how to get Joomla and SEF working on an IIS 6.0 server, this took me a couple of days to fully work out so I hope this save someone some time. The basic Joomla SEF / SEO is relatively easy to get working but does not really give you much, what I wanted… Read More »